She keeps winning and winning and winning and winning
If you think we post about Sachem alum Maria Michta-Coffey repetitively, we do. It’s because she KEEPS ON WINNING!
From USTA …
She led wire to wire for 50 laps to win the women’s 20-kilometer race walk at the USATF Outdoor Championships at Drake Stadium, taking a 30-meter lead on the first lap and lapping the trail group by Lap 5.
Michta-Coffey’s time was 1 hour, 35 minutes, 21.59 seconds, smashing her own stadium record by more than two minutes at the meet, which is part of the Team USA Summer Champions Series, presented by Xfinity. Kate Burnett, her closest competitor, was next at 1:37:55.97. The 11th and final finisher (out of 12 starters), came in at 2:01:07.87, while Michta-Coffey was already at doping control.
Winning her first national title in 2010, Michta-Coffey’s 42 titles span distances from a mile to 40 kilometers. She won six national titles in 2014 alone.