From GoodGoodGood:
Sister Stephanie Baliga, a nun living and working at Chicago’s Mission of Our Lady of the Angels, was almost an Olympian.
“I started running when I was 9, and running became my life,” Baliga told WTTW, a local PBS station. “It was how I defined myself and who I was.” Baliga was the sixth-fastest freshman runner in the nation when she was a student athlete at the University of Illinois, training hours a day, and preparing for a professional career. As a sophomore, however, she fractured her foot. She traded her hours on the track for prayer, which resulted in the realization that she wanted to devote her life to God.