Magdalena Lewy-Boulet CAL, prerace

U.S. Olympic marathoner Magdalena Lewy Boulet earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team by finishing second in the 2008 U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials. Leading for much of the 26.2-mile race, she finished…
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U.S. Olympic marathoner Magdalena Lewy Boulet earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team by finishing second in the 2008 U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials. Leading for much of the 26.2-mile race, she finished…
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U.S. Olympic marathoner Magdalena Lewy Boulet earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team by finishing second in the 2008 U.S. Women's Olympic Marathon Trials. Leading for much of the 26.2-mile race, she finished in a personal-best time of 2 hours, 30 minutes, 19 seconds. Magda, 34, and a native of Poland, will represent the United States at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games this summer.

Magda became a U.S. citizen on the morning of September 11, 2001. She earned her bachelor's degree in human biodynamics from U.C. Berkley in 1997 and a master's degree in exercise physiology from Cal State Hayward. Magda lives in Oakland, California with her husband Richie, one of the United States' best milers in the 1990s, and their three-year-old son Owen. In 2003, she returned to her alma mater as a coach for the Golden Bear cross country program, where she has been ever since.

Magda is coached by Jack Daniels, Ph.D., a world-renowned authority on distance running and currently the Head Distance Coach at the Center for High Altitude Training at Northern Arizona University.