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Ellen Waldow Cullen was an outstanding runner on both the Augsburg cross country and track and field teams. She earned All-MIAC honors twice and all-conference honorable mention honors once in cross country, finishing 15th, 13th and 17th at the MIAC Championships. In her junior year, she earned NCAA All-Region honors with a 16th-place finish at the regional meet. Her career-best six-kilometer cross country time was 22 minutes, 58.1 seconds in 2004. That season, she was the top runner on Augsburg’s best-ever women’s cross country team, finishing sixth at the MIAC championships and ninth at the NCAA regional. In track and field, Ellen was a key middle distance runner for the Auggies, winning the MIAC outdoor championship in the 800-meter run in 2004, and winning two more conference titles as part of the 2004 indoor distance medley relay and 2004 outdoor 3,200-meter relay. The Auggie indoor distance medley relay team qualified for the NCAA Division III national championships in 2004, where she earned All-American honors with a seventh-place relay finish. That relay squad still holds the school record with a 12:05.92 clocking, one of three school record relay times of which she is still a part. Ellen was a mathematics major at Augsburg. Ellen and her husband, former Auggie student-athlete Joe Cullen, live in Lanesboro, Minnesota, with their four children, James, Eliza, Jacob and Samuel. She works as a stay-at-home mom, but has kept her running career active since 2008 as the head coach of the junior high and varsity boys’ and girls’ cross country teams at Lanesboro High School.
Two-time All-MIAC selection and one-time All-MIAC Honorable Mention selection in cross country, finishing 15th in 2003, 13th in 2004 and 17th in 2005 at MIAC Championships … NCAA All-Region with 16th-place finish at 2004 NCAA regional … Set career-best 6K time with 22:58.1 time at UW-Eau Claire Invite on 10/1/04 … Part of Auggie squad that had best season in school history in 2004, finishing 6th at MIAC Championships and 9th in NCAA regional … In track and field, won MIAC outdoor championship in 2004 in 800-meter dash, and won two MIAC relay titles (2004 indoor distance medley relay, 2004 outdoor 3,200-meter relay) … NCAA D-III Indoor National Championships qualifier in 2004 in distance medley relay, earning All-American honors with 12:08.87, 7th-place finish … Part of 3 school records in relays (2 outdoor, 1 indoor).
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