Education
In the early 1970s, Walker attended the University of Oregon where she received instruction from the legendary Steve Prefontaine.
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Walker"s performance was made while she was a junior at Grant High School in Portland. Although the school did not have official track or cross country teams, Walker began running competitively as a freshman. She ran for the Oregon Track Club.
Walker represented the United States in the 1972 International Cross Country Championships, where she placed 9th winning silver with the United States team, and the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, winning team bronze with an individual 30th place, and was an All-American in cross country in 1973.
In 1981, Walker returned to college at Oregon State University where she was briefly coached by Joe Fulton. There she would set a school records in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters.
Injuries and the nature of her cross country training schedule prevented her from running another marathon. Walker claims that mercury in the dental fillings she received during her last year at Oregon negatively affected her health and her running performance, and that a lower back injury sustained at a chiropractor"s office ended her running career.
From 1995 to 1997, she worked for a physician specializing in the alternative medicine treatments of neural therapy and prolotherapy.
As of 2009, Walker is a colorpuncturist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. gave me the compliment of saying that I was the person most like him of anybody he’d ever metropolitan
Achievements
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In 1970, Walker was the Oregon high school state champion in the mile and runner-up in the 3,000 meters at the Amateur Athletic Union national championships held at University of California, Los Los Angeles She also won the Junior Amateur Athletic Union Cross-Country Championship held in Portland on November 13, 1971 (15:58). From 1972 to 1978, she won Oregon Road Runners Club women's aquathlon, a biathlon consisting of running and swimming, six consecutive times. Walker was also the Oregon state triathlon champion in 1984, 1986, and 1987. Foreign her achievements, Walker was inducted into the Portland Interscholastic League"s Hall of Fame in 2005.
