Maria Trujillo

She went out for track at Hartnell College in 1978 with the goal of losing five pounds. In the process Trujillo broke the Hartnell record in the 3,000 and 5,000 meter runs, earned a full-ride scholarship to Arizona State where she broke the school’s 10,000-meter record, and in 1984 represented Mexico in the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, finishing 25th in 2:38.30. She won the gold medal in the women’s marathon at the 1995 Pan American Games. She was named by Runner’s World Magazine as the No. 1 female distance runner in the U.S. in 1990. She qualified for five consecutive U.S. Olympic Trials (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004) and two world championship marathons.