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By Caroline Kurdej<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Amanda Macuiba sits perched on a high chair at Chicago\u2019s Native Foods Caf\u00e9. Her outfit is as lively as her personality: her tan coat is patterned with abstract floral prints, her beige sweater accentuated with chunky silver jewelry. Her hair and makeup look flawless, with not a single blonde curl out of place. You wouldn\u2019t guess that this former college soccer star is shooting for the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials in February.<\/p>\n

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To qualify, she needs to shave five minutes off her 2:50 personal best, with a personal goal to do it by the end of 2019. So far, 350 women have already run 2:45 or faster.<\/p>\n

Before she switched to long distances, 25-year-old Macuiba was the starting goalkeeper for the Illinois Wesleyan University soccer team.<\/p>\n

But she butted heads with the soccer coach. She didn\u2019t feel like she was getting the experience she wanted from the team, nor did she see improvement in her performance. \u201cI wanted close relationships and camaraderie,\u201d Macuiba said. She quit.<\/p>\n

Macuiba texted her mom, sharing the devastating feeling of losing a sport she loved. \u201cI feel like it defines who I am,\u201d she texted.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmanda, soccer doesn\u2019t define who you are,\u201d her mom replied. \u201cIt\u2019s what you did.\u201d<\/p>\n

She walked across the hall into the cross country and track office. Coach Greg Huffaker offered her a spot on the condition that she would run steeplechase. She had no clue what it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just agreed in a heartbeat because I wanted to be on the team so bad,\u201d she said. \u201cI told Huff that I always wanted to try it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As soon as she walked out Huff\u2019s office, she pulled out her phone to Google \u201csteeplechase.\u201d Essentially, it\u2019s a human horse race: jumping over water barriers in circles around a track.<\/p>\n

Macuiba didn\u2019t realize what she was missing from soccer until she found it in the cross country team. \u201cThat\u2019s not to say we were some perfect utopia of a team\u2014we had our own issues there as well, but damn, did everyone at least really care about each other,\u201d Macuiba says.<\/p>\n

She soon found herself collecting accolades and improving her running times. In 2013, Macuiba earned the top newcomer award and in 2015 earned the women\u2019s cross country hardest worker for the Titans.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the Titans sent 16 people to track nationals, and took home the Division III Nationals title as a team. When asked if she won the individual steeple event, Macuiba replied, \u201cI actually can\u2019t remember what place I came in,\u201d Macuiba says. \u201cI was too focused on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

That year, Macuiba walked across the stage to pick up two Illinois Wesleyan University bachelor\u2019s degree diplomas for psychology and gender studies. Although she had a season of eligibility left to compete in collegiate athletics, she chose to instead become a graduate assistant for DePaul University\u2019s cross country and track teams.<\/p>\n

Aside from cheering louder than any other spectator or coach at Division I meets (\u201cbetter together!\u201d), Macuiba created rigorous core and strengthening exercises to build stronger athletes, and stronger people.<\/p>\n

Now, after earning her master\u2019s degree in human resources and completing a graduate assistantship for DePaul\u2019s cross country and track teams, Macuiba squeezes in an easy six mile runs before her full-time job as a compensation analyst at IDEX Corp. After work, she adds in another eight miles to 15 miles a day, averaging 90-to 100-mile weeks. Her background as a former graduate assistant and assistant coach trained her well, she said, for a career in advising companies on advising, motivating and training top talent. Macuiba works out of IDEX\u2019s Lake Forest branch twice a week and trains with her teammates after work.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Macuiba\u2019s 5-foot-6-inch, broad-shouldered, 150-pound frame transformed into a lean runner\u2019s body. Her racing weight now hovers around 129 pounds, and the only bulges are her iron calf muscles.<\/p>\n

Most families pop open champagne bottles for New Year\u2019s celebrations, but the Macuibas drive from their home in Gurnee, Illinois, to Waukegan, where they plunge into the arctic Waukegan beach water. Every year, the family wakes up on New Year\u2019s Day with a reason for freezin\u2019: The Polar Bear Plunge. Macuiba has kept up the tradition since she was 7, and she continued it for years.<\/p>\n

A few days later, the family typically ventures out for the S-NO-W Fun Run, a five-mile race that takes place in sub-zero temperatures or shine. It\u2019s safe to say running\u2026 runs in the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of our family vacations were race-based,\u201d said Macuiba\u2019s mom, Tracy Macuiba. \u201cWe would spend 10 days in Hawaii. Why? Because her dad was competing in the Ironman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carl Macuiba, her dad, has finished the Hawaiian Ironman World Championships six times\u2014a 2.36-mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bike ride, topped off with a 26.2-mile race.<\/p>\n

Amanda Macuiba started logging miles in a baby jogger, pushed by her mom. Later, she and her younger brother, Dustin, biked along. (Dustin, who represents the Fighting Irish on the cross country and track teams, is finishing up his senior year at Notre Dame.)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s got the endurance, she\u2019s got the body strength and she\u2019s got the mindset,\u201d Tracy said.<\/p>\n

What will the celebration look like if Amanda makes it? After a short shakeout run late in the morning and sleeping in for the first time in months, she\u2019ll venture out to Sonoma for \u201clots of wine.\u201d And then?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sounds stupid, but there\u2019s this tea kettle I realllllllly want,\u201d Macuiba shared. \u201cIt\u2019s kinda expensive, but I would probably buy it for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Amanda Macuiba with her dog, Bowser. (Courtesy of Samuel Aronson)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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