Fellows & Editors
Lori Shontz
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2001
- Affiliation:
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Country:
- Kenya
- Year:
- 2001
Lori Shontz is a senior editor at The Penn Stater magazine. Previously, she worked at The Miami Herald and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Earlier, she was sports writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette specializing in women's sports and the Olympics. A native of Pittsburgh, she joined the Post-Gazette in 1994. She has covered the Olympic Games three times, making it a point to not only cover the sporting events, but to write about the cultural and political histories of the athletes and their countries. Previously she worked for The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and The Progress-Index in Petersburg, Va., covering everything from Little League baseball to NASCAR. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Penn State in 1991 with a B.A. in English writing and a minor in sport history.
Stories
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Fast Forward: Looking Toward a New Kenya
The problem with the hut was obvious, its owner said: "It was raining inside." The solution was elusive; he had no money to fix the leaky straw roof. Joel and Evaline Jepleting...
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Fast Forward: Lornah and her camp for girls
ITEN, Kenya — Like everyone else, Lornah Kiplagat got the word from the newspaper. That's what made her so angry. She didn't understand how the Kenyan Amateur Athletic Association could possibly announce...
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Fast Forward: Crazy Catherine, on top of the world
NAIROBI, Kenya — Crazy, she was. Everyone knew it, every last one of the students at Ngorano Secondary School. She woke up early to run before class. After class, she completed the...
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Fast Forward: The rise of Kenya’s women runners
ITEN, Kenya — One day back in elementary school, Esther Kiplagat sat bare-footed in a classroom and read a question on a test about a man named Kip Keino, who had gone ...
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Fast Forward: The rise of Kenya’s women runners
ITEN, Kenya — The day that changed Emily Rotich's life dawned like any other. By the time the sun's rays touched the green and gold hills along Kenya's Great Rift Valley, the...
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