We need to remain cohesive as a team. Individually, everyone wants to improve. I want to be an All-American.

In terms of running, we try to keep each other in check, as normal as possible. If one wants to go on an extra run, the other will ask why. Our competitive nature is good and bad at times. The running competition can help and hurt our relationship.

Just to be a member of the Stanford women's cross country team with those girls, I was in awe.

We just enjoy this relay very much. It's a special relay for us.

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.