She’s in obviously a different situation, she can’t control that. She has to move up to a different event and the 5K is a tough event. We just have to look it as that regard — that she’s at a world-level in a 5K.

Karissa Schweizer

Karissa Schweizer (born May 4, 1996) is an American middle- and long-distance runner. In early 2020, she set the American Record for the indoor 3000-meter run with a time of 8:25.70. Representing the University of Missouri, she won the 2016 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships and holds five other NCAA individual championship titles in track and field. Schweizer is the current American collegiate record-holder for the indoor 3000-meter run with a time of 8:41.60. She has been labeled the most decorated female athlete in University of Missouri history.

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