{"id":2456,"date":"2015-07-10T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2015-07-10T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T10:21:31","slug":"merrill-is-ucsds-accidental-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/merrill-is-ucsds-accidental-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill is UCSD&#8217;s accidental Olympian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/staff\/mark-zeigler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Zeigler<\/a> (ref: https:\/\/m.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/jul\/25\/accidental-olympian\/ )<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday,   July 25,   2012<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/merrill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2458 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/merrill.jpg\" alt=\"merrill\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Christine Sonali Merrill was born in Bakersfield and attended tiny Bakersfield Christian High,   which at the time operated the school out of a church. It had no running track, and no track team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When she was a junior, Bakersfield Christian moved to a spacious new campus that had a football field and a 400-meter dirt track around it. The Eagles still had no boys track team but fielded a girls team, which consisted of Merrill, her younger sister and three other girls \u2014 \u201cenough,\u201d she says, \u201cfor a 4&#215;400 relay team.\u201d They didn\u2019t have track singlets, so they wore shorts and softball jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had numbers on the back,\u201d Merrill says.<\/p>\n<p>She laughs with you. It all seems so crazy, so surreal. Christine Merrill: The accidental Olympian.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill, now 24, is in London to run the 400-meter hurdles for Sri Lanka, which wouldn\u2019t be so wildly improbable if she had actually planned to run track at UC San Diego or knew her mother\u2019s heritage could provide a path to the Summer Games or knew that Sri Lanka would pick her as its wild-card entrant after she just missed the Olympic qualifying standard.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill\u2019s parents are both pediatricians who met during residency. Her plan was to get a mechanical engineering degree from UCSD and then a lucrative job. Which she did. She works full-time for San Diego\u2019s Solar Turbine in the customer design division, adapting massive gas turbine engines to function in remote locales and climates, be it torrid deserts or Canadian tundra.<\/p>\n<p>Track?<\/p>\n<p>She reached the California state prep meet as a junior and senior at Bakersfield Christian, but when she learned that UCSD didn\u2019t offer traditional athletic scholarships she decided to focus on ME, which ranks among the school\u2019s most competitive and demanding majors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know what college sports meant,\u201d Merrill says. \u201cI just knew a lot of people said it\u2019s a lot of work. I figured, if they\u2019re not going to give me (scholarship) money for it, what\u2019s the point? I intended not to run, but Darcy tricked me into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darcy is Darcy Ahner, the Tritons women\u2019s head track coach. She gave Merrill the spiel about how it\u2019s possible to combine academics and athletics at UCSD, how athletes often become better students because they learn how to manage their time more efficiently. She suggested Merrill try it for a year; if she didn\u2019t like it, she could quit.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill agreed and left to go play some pickup basketball on courts outside Sixth College. Took a jab step, blew out her knee and assumed that was that \u2014 her collegiate track career was over before it began.<\/p>\n<p>But Ahner accompanied Merrill to her surgeon\u2019s consultation and monitored her yearlong rehab. Ahner knew what Merrill didn\u2019t; the track COACHES RUNprospective athletes through basic speed and power testing, and Merrill\u2019s numbers were off the chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were like, \u2018We\u2019ve got a little gem here,\u2019?\u201d Ahner says. \u201cShe was from such a small school and ran on a dirt track and wasn\u2019t really challenged, so I don\u2019t think she really knew how good she was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By her junior year, Merrill had won the Division II NCAA championship in the 400 hurdles. As a senior, she went 58.04 to set the school record.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Sri Lanka, Merrill\u2019s grandfather (her mother was born and schooled there) wrote a small article in a Colombo newspaper about her prodigious Div. II track career in the States. Someone from the national track federation read it and contacted the U.S. embassy, which contacted UCSD, which contacted Ahner.<\/p>\n<p>Says Merrill: \u201cOne day my coach texts me: \u2018Sri Lanka is looking for you.\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her personal best of 56.83 seconds is slower than 23 American women this year, and it is .18 seconds shy of the Olympic qualifying standard. But if a country has no one achieve a standard in any event, it can enter one wild-card athlete of each gender. Merrill, despite not living on the tropical island off the southwest coast of India, was selected over three others.<\/p>\n<p>She is hardly, though, one of the hundreds of so-called \u201ctourist\u201d athletes that regularly populate the Summer Games. Her coach since graduating from UCSD in 2010, Joey Tosta, was a former hurdler himself and is married to Sheena Johnson Tosta. They moved to San Diego shortly before the 2008 Olympics, and Sheena was the surprise silver medalist in the 400 hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>Merely surviving the first round is the goal for Merrill in London, but Tosta is talking medal in 2016 in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s just young athletically,\u201d Tosta says. \u201cShe\u2019s coming from a Div. II school, where if any athlete turns in a good performance or practice it\u2019s appreciated but not expected. They\u2019re students first, athletes second. Now she\u2019s being pushed harder than she ever has before and taken out of her comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was scared to hurt. Your body is going to be in shock and it\u2019s going to hurt, but you push through it. That\u2019s what this event is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merrill spent her own money traveling to pre-Olympic meets in Jamaica and Belgium this summer chasing the qualifying standard, and now she\u2019s taking more time off for the Olympics. She trains six days a week, usually before work. She quickly showers, changes and spends the rest of the day evaluating whether structural engine removal beams can handle the weight in sub-zero temperatures or whether pressure differential switches will still work when the mercury hits 140.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty much a miracle every day,\u201d Merrill says of her dual life. \u201cIt makes me focus on the basics \u2014 sleeping, eating. Luckily my employer is flexible. As long as I can get my work done, they\u2019re OK with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merrill tries to visit Sri Lanka for a few weeks each summer, and she\u2019s continuing to learn the language. She recently was featured on the cover of a Sri Lankan magazine. She also has begun using her middle name of Sonali.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a Sinhalese word, meaning \u201cgolden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Mark Zeigler (ref: https:\/\/m.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/jul\/25\/accidental-olympian\/ ) Wednesday, July 25, 2012 LONDON \u2014 Christine Sonali Merrill was born in Bakersfield and attended tiny Bakersfield Christian High, which at the time operated the school out of a church. 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