The Women in the Bowerman Track Club Take Center Stage in the Rio Olympics

Published by The Oregonian on August 10, 2016

Jerry Schumacher didn't begin with the the best U.S.-based women's distance group.

But it has happened.

There were no women in the group of post-collegiate distance runners Schumacher brought to Portland from Madison, Wisconsin in 2008 to form what is now the elite component of the Bowerman Track Club.

Eight years down the road, seven women in Schumacher's group have reached the Olympics.