Running wild in the USA

Angela Wagner is one of South Africa's fastest cross-country runners She's currently a radio broadcast student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. At the same university, Angela takes Afrikaans classes. Angela is English-speaking. She recently ran in her first US national championship event, in her first year of competing in the 3000-meter steeplechase, and finished in sixth place. She earned All-America honours with the second-fastest time of her career (10:06.05). The 3000-meter race was the fastest ever contested on US soil and was won by Colorado's Jenny Barringer in a time of 9:29.10. Angela ran the same distance in California and won in 9:58.68. Until last year she competed in the 800-meter races.