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The Blue Water Running Podcast

The Blue Water Running Podcast features local high school/collegiate cross country and track and field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. We highlight and celebrate their accomplishments!

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2025 GIRLS Outdoor Track and Field Season Preview

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2025/03/20

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m excited about sunshine and warm breezes…ok, probably snow, hail, freezing rain, gusting wind, etc., but I AM excited to get back out watching Blue Water Area athletes achieve amazing things. It’s time for the 2025 GIRLS Outdoor Track and Field Season Preview. Over the last few months, I’ve been looking at results from last year’s season to compile the predictions and probable performances for this year’s season. ...

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Season 2 Episode 5: Kieran Whitlam

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2025/02/20

“You got a dream, you gotta protect it." The Pursuit of Happyness Today’s guest is Kieran Whitlam, a senior at Macomb Lutheran North High School and a member of the Inversion Vault Club. Kieran has seen phenomenal growth and success in the pole vault during his career, with his first jumps as a freshman in the mid-8 to 9-foot range moving into the 12s and 13s as a junior outdoors in 2024. Kieran was undefeated his entire junior outdoor season until the state meet, winning the Cath...

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Season 2 Episode 4: Mike Buslepp, Romeo XC

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2025/01/31

On the Michigan high school running stage, there was no bigger star in 2024 than Romeo’s girls' team. Coming off of a 2023 state title, the Bulldogs entered 2024 with big goals and high expectations. They won the Jackson Invitational, the Portage Invitational, and the Holly-Duane Raffin Festival of Races with their top five runners in the top ten places; these are all some of the most competitive invitationals in the state. They won the MAC RED Championships, the Mac...

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Season 2 Episode 3: Matt Fecht, MCC

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2025/01/26

In April 2022, The Macomb Community College athletics department hired Matt Fecht as the head men’s and women’s cross country coach. Fecht came from Wayne State University, where he was the assistant coach, and is an accomplished runner. He was a 2002 All-American at MCC and his team placed in the top-10 at the NJCAA championships. He went on to run for Wayne State after competing for MCC. He was a three-time national championship qualifier and an NCAA Division II All-Americ...

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Season 2 Episode 2: Lily Lemanski, SC4

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2025/01/20

On this episode, our guest is Lily Lemanski, a 2024 graduate of Marlette High School. On the track, Lily has tried almost every event, from the 4x100 at the state meet to consistent seasons of long jump and high jump. In both her junior and senior years, Lily was a GTL East Conference champion between the mile with a PR of 5:48 and the 800. A regional runner-up in the 800 both years, her highest finish was 13th at the D4 state meet in 2:30. She didn’t run cross country until...

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S. 2 Episode 1: Indoor Track & Field Recap #1

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2025/01/12

Indoor Track and Field Recap: Dec. 14, 2024-Jan. 12, 2025Welcome to 2025 and a new year and podcast season of all things cross country and track and field! I’m your host Meran and this is the Blue Water Running podcast, which features the accomplishments of local high school and collegiate athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. Winter is upon us and if you aren’t participating in another sport, perhaps you are honing your track and field skills indoors. The Michigan ...

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Episode #33: Top Moments of 2024

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2024/12/27

Top Blue Water Running Moments of 2024Welcome to the final stretch of 2024! As we finish another incredible year of local athletics, I’d like to take a moment to look back on the highlights and achievements of the Blue Water Area and how local athletes have shown us what it means to push limits, break barriers, and strive for greatness. I'm your host, Meran, and this is episode #33 of The Blue Water Running Podcast. In this special year-end episode, we'll spotlight the standout pe...

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Episode #32: Max Whittredge (SC4 Men's XC/Track Coach)

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2024/12/12

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m your host, Meran, and this podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. You can follow Blue Water Running on Instagram, X, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. You can also find meet and athlete reports/articles and a recently added merchandise shop at www.bluewaterrunning.org.We have a BOGO special for this week's podcas...

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Episode #31: Andrea Rheaume (SC4 Women's XC/Track Coach)

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2024/12/12

Hello and welcome to The Blue Water Running Podcast! I’m your host, Meran, and this podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. You can follow Blue Water Running on Instagram, X, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. You can also find meet and athlete reports/articles and a recently added merchandise shop at www.bluewaterrunning.org.We have a BOGO special for this week's podcas...

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Episode #30: Noah Verlinde

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2024/12/03

“I’m not defined by any particular result I could ever achieve, but more so am proud of the work I put in and the attitude that I had going in trying to achieve those goals, and whether or not I was able to bring people along the way to help them as I go up as well. That’s a universal lesson and probably the greatest lesson running has given me.”Hello and welcome to episode #30 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! On November 23, the Division 2 cross country national meet was held a...

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Episode #29: The Me-Ran Miles Story

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2024/11/17

When the cross country season ends, many athletes feel excitement, pride, satisfaction, confidence, or a sense of accomplishment. For many others, though, the reality is not so positive: they might feel disappointment, inadequacy, relief that they are done racing, or sadly even a sense of failure. Perhaps their season didn’t live up to their expectations: they couldn’t run due to an injury or illness, they didn’t get faster, they didn’t run what they had previously in their career...

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Episode #28: The Wessel Sisters - Alannah and Faith

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2024/10/25

Hello and welcome to episode #28 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. This episode features the Wessel sisters, Alannah and Faith, who run for the Macomb Athletic Club for Homeschoolers (MACH). Alannah is a freshman and Faith is a sophomore and both have had a very successful and consistent cross country season t...

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Episode #27: Samantha Whitlam

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2024/10/16

Hello and welcome to episode #27 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan.Today’s episode features cross country sophomore Samantha Whitlam of Macomb Lutheran North. Sam recently broke her own personal record in a big way at the Macomb County Championships, running her first sub-20 5K in 19:46 to finish 17th to earn All-County honors w...

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Episode #26: Joshua Macri

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2024/10/16

Hello and welcome to episode #26 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan.Today’s episode features sophomore Josh Macri of Macomb Lutheran North. Josh has been tearing up the grass this season and has made significant time improvements. He came into the 2024 cross country season with a personal best of 17:49 from his freshman season la...

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Episode #25: Cara Prusakiewicz

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2024/09/30

Hello and welcome to episode #25 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track/field athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan.Today’s episode features cross country junior Cara Prusakiewicz of Dryden High School, the first Cardinal runner on the pod. Cara recently broke her school record at the Holly Festival of Races, taking ninth place in 20:56, her best on a hilly and technical cours...

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Episode #24: Amanda Maltese

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2024/09/29

Eat enough calories. Eat healthy food. Eat at the right times. Stay hydrated. Choose the right drinks and snacks. Consume enough carbs and protein. The advice and options can be overwhelming when trying to properly fuel your body for athletic training. Thankfully, we have a nutrition expert here today to help us sort it all out and give us practical and applicable advice for daily dining.Welcome to episode #24 of The Blue Water Running Podcast. I’m yo...

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Episode #23: Greg Vogt

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2024/09/24

Hello and welcome to episode #23 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. Today’s episode features cross country senior Greg Vogt of New Baltimore Anchor Bay. Greg recently finished as the individual runner-up on his home course, taking second place in the James Cleverley Friday Night Invite in a new PR of 16:32. He wasn’t...

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Episode #22: Julian Walker

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2024/09/15

Hello and welcome to episode #22 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. Today’s episode features the first guest athlete from Algonac, junior Julian Walker. Julian recently won the first Blue Water Area Conference cross country league jamboree in 17:23 on Sept. 10 and the Skippers Cross Country Showcase on August 30. He ran hi...

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Episode #21: Dr. Kyle Casadei

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2024/08/31

According to The National Institute of Health, running is one of the most popular leisure sports. Unfortunately, according to statistics compiled by Yale Medicine, “At least 50 percent of regular runners get hurt each year—some estimates put the percentage even higher—sometimes from trauma, such as a fall, but more often from overuse.” The NIH goes on to state that “50 to 75% of all running injuries appear to be overuse injuries due to the constant repetition of the same movement....

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Episode #20: Abigail VanderKooi

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2024/08/13

Hello and welcome to episode #20 of The Blue Water Running Podcast! This podcast features and celebrates the achievements of high school and collegiate cross country and track athletes from the Blue Water Area of Michigan. Our guest today is Abby VanderKooi, an incredibly accomplished runner, and a recovered survivor of an eating disorder. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, “An estimated 9% of the U.S. population, or 28.8 million American...

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