Aisha Praught Leer To Train With Emma Coburn In Boulder

Aisha Praught Leer To Train With Emma Coburn In Boulder

Aisha Praught Leer has a new training partner. The former Oregon Track Club Elite athlete and Jamaican Olympic finalist will train alongside Olympic bronze medalist Emma Coburn in Boulder, the two steeplechasers announced on social media yesterday.

Jan 25, 2017 by Meg Bellino
Aisha Praught Leer To Train With Emma Coburn In Boulder
Aisha Praught Leer has a new training partner and coach. The former Oregon Track Club Elite athlete and Jamaican Olympic finalist will train alongside Olympic bronze medalist Emma Coburn and be coached by Joe Bosshard in Boulder, the two steeplechasers announced on social media yesterday.


Coburn announced in December that she would be coached by her fiancé Bosshard, who was an All-American athlete alongside Coburn at Colorado. Coburn was coached by Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs for eight years.

Praught Leer--who married Will Leer in October--ran a 9:31 steeplechase PB in July and finished 14th in the Olympic final.