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A standout athlete at Grant Park High School in Winnipeg, she was a six-time provincial champion and represented Team Canada in the junior heptathlon for a 1990 competition against Team USA...For the Bison, she was a seven-time NCAA Division II All-American...At the NCAA indoor championships, she placed fifth in the long jump in 1994, and finished fourth in the long jump and fifth in the 55-meter hurdles in 1996...At the NCAA outdoor championships, she was runner-up in the heptathlon and sixth in the 4x100 relay in 1996, and seventh in the heptathlon and eighth in the 4x100 relay in 1994...Named the 1994 North Central Conference indoor MVP and the 1996 NCC outdoor MVP...Eight-time North Central Conference champion...Indoors, won the 55-meter hurdles in 1994 and 1995, long jump in 1996, and the pentathlon in 1994 and 1996...Outdoors, won the 100-meter hurdles in 1996, and the heptathlon in 1994 and 1996...Set an indoor school record in the long jump at 19 feet, 8 ½ inches...On the NDSU outdoor list, finished second in the heptathlon with 5,158 points...Previously held top-10 marks in the long jump (19-8) and 100m hurdles (:14.19)...Following her time at NDSU, she transitioned to distance running, completing 11 consecutive Boston Marathons and several ultramarathons and triathlons...Established the South of the River Endurance Club in the Twin Cities area in 2020...Her professional career began in 1998 with Connecticut-based Frontier Communications, where she is a senior network engineer and part of a complex solutions engineering team managing natural disaster restoral, multi-site technology deployments, and internal network development...Married to Jeff Griffin, a former NDSU men’s basketball player.