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Henna Rustami On Growing Up As A First-Generation Afghan-American Runner + Going From An Unknown to Ivy League Champion

Henna Rustami On Growing Up As A First-Generation Afghan-American Runner + Going From An Unknown to Ivy League Champion

FromThe CITIUS MAG Podcast with Chris Chavez | A Running + Track and Field Show


Henna Rustami On Growing Up As A First-Generation Afghan-American Runner + Going From An Unknown to Ivy League Champion

FromThe CITIUS MAG Podcast with Chris Chavez | A Running + Track and Field Show

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Length:
76 minutes
Released:
Jan 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

To start off the year, we wanted to introduce you to one of the kindest people me and my new co-host (Ryan Welsh) met in 2019. Henna Rustami's name might be familiar if you’re an Ivy League alum because she was a Heps champion. But before she rose to some prominence on the college scene at Columbia, she grew up on Long Island to an immigrant family who left a war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s. 
Doug Binder of Dye Stat wrote a great story on her in 2017 as she was setting her sights on some school records during the indoor season: https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=news&news_id=467103
Henna is one of the members of the Brooklyn Track Club in New York City and in addition to balancing her workload as a second-year law student, she’s not giving up on lowering those PRs from college. She wants to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Track Trials and serve as an inspiration for girls who look like her since some role models were lacking when she was growing up. Henna is awesome and we convinced her to join Instagram after we stopped recording.
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Released:
Jan 15, 2020
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Podcast episode

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Track and field's biggest names on the track, in the coaching ranks and within the industry sit down and open up in-depth to share brilliant insights and vivid snapshots from their professional/personal accomplishments and experiences in the sport. Hosted CITIUS MAG founder Chris Chavez. The show was named one of "The Best Running Podcasts" by Runner's World in 2021. Get more at https://CITIUSMAG.com ▶ Follow us: https://twitter.com/CitiusMag | https://instagram.com/citiusmag | https://www.youtube.com/c/CitiusMag | patreon.com/citiusmag