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STUDENT SUCCESS


FROM COMPETITIVE RUNNER TO RUNNING A DEPARTMENT.


RUNNING TOWARD SOMETHING BETTER.

From her time as a college-level track and field athlete to the challenges of
earning a graduate degree as a wife, mother, and working professional, Connie
Washington has always relied on her competitive mindset to defy expectations and
achieve success on her own terms.

“My dad was a runner in high school, and he thought I was pretty quick (for a
kid),” recalls Connie Washington, former NCAA track and field athlete and
Western Governors University alumna. “That’s how it all started for me, as a
little 7- or 8-year-old girl in these little AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) meets
around Salt Lake City, Utah.”

In the years that followed, the promising young athlete gained one victory after
another.


Soon, Connie’s weekends were spent on the road with her dad—traveling to
neighboring states in the pursuit of more opportunities to compete. Her
confidence and talents grew. Yet, Connie never fully understood her potential
for greatness until her freshman year in high school.


“My very first meet was up at the University of Utah, an invitational, which is
a meet that all the high schools in the state go to. I didn’t have the greatest
form, but somehow, some way I won the first invitational I was at in the 200
meters,” Connie says.

“So, that’s kind of when I realized that I might be able to compete at a level
that many people don’t get to. I thought, Holy cow, maybe I can do this!”

CONNIE CONTINUED TO BREAK RECORDS AND RECEIVE ACCOLADES AS A HIGH SCHOOL TRACK
STAR—INCLUDING DISTRICT AND STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS. HER EFFORTS WOULD NOT GO
UNNOTICED.

She would receive an athletic scholarship from Weber State, an NCAA Division 1
school in the Big Sky Conference.

The year was 1982. And Connie pushed herself even further. In college, she was
now a member of an elite group of athletes—each a high school star in their own
right—brought together from different parts of the country to compete as one
singularly focused team.


“My sophomore year, we actually won the first championship … the first women’s
(conference) championship that (the) Weber State team won. We weren’t supposed
to win that meet. We won the indoor championship. And I had amazingly won the
long jump at that meet, won the 400, and we won the 400-meter relay. And so that
was pretty exciting. It was nice to get the individual wins, but we were really
pleased as a team.”


As her track and field career progressed, Connie garnered her share of “Most
Valuable Athlete” awards and nominations at a number of intercollegiate
conferences and regional invitationals. Looking back, one event still leaves an
impression on Connie today 34 years later.

“We found ourselves on the track with the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team which was …
awe-inspiring. It had Alice Brown, Florence Griffith-Joyner, also known as ‘Flo
Jo.’ She was the anchor on the relay. And I was the anchor on the relay. We
competed in the same race. I will say that they finished quite a bit ahead of
us. But it was just exciting to be in the presence of some of those Olympic
runners. So that was one of the highlights of my running career.”


She would leave college that next year with an associate’s degree—drawing her
running career to a close. In short time, Connie would begin a new chapter in
her life: becoming both a wife and a mother. As the years went by, she vowed not
to lose sight of the one goal that eluded her at Weber State: completing a
bachelor’s degree in business.


It would take 30 years for Connie to recognize an opportunity to pick up where
she left off. And she took it. “I’d been considering going back to school
because my two youngest children were about to graduate from college and I
decided I needed to have my bachelor’s. I did some research. WGU was very
affordable, and I’d heard some good things about it. I found that it was the
best bang for my buck and the best program for where I was in my life at that
time.”

In retrospect, she attributes her success at WGU to her experiences as a
competitive runner. 

“RUNNING HAS TAUGHT ME SO MANY VALUABLE LESSONS. I WAS A SPRINTER. SO I LIKE TO
MOVE QUICKLY. I LIKE TO GET THINGS DONE. THAT’S MY MINDSET."

"I wasn’t a long-distance runner. I wasn’t the type of person who could go for a
long run and clear my head. I want to get in there, compete, get it done, and go
on to the next thing.”

Using this no-nonsense approach, Connie completed her bachelor’s degree within a
year’s time. Then, earned her master’s degree in management and leadership in
less than four months. 


“It’s interesting when I think about what running taught me and how I was able
to carry that over into my schooling to get my degree (at WGU). I learned that
it’s on you...it’s individual goals…it’s on me to get it done. And finish
strong. That’s the same thing I did during my time at WGU. There were people to
support me. But, it was me getting up in that office (to study) when maybe I
didn’t want to. So there were a lot of parallels to being motivated, being
self-driven, and to have a mindset that this is on me to get done, so I’m going
to do it.”


Although Connie no longer runs competitively, she does coach track for youth
athletes in her community. She’s also a featured Hall of Fame athlete at her
alma mater: West High School.


Not that Connie is one to dwell on the past. Always striving to achieve her
personal best, she’s already planned her next move— earning an MBA at WGU. A
goal which already was achieved by her own husband, who was inspired in part, by
Connie’s example as a model WGU student.


If an air of competition exists between Mr. and Mrs. Washington, it starts and
ends in the classroom. Not on the track.


“Yeah, the days of sprinting around the track are over for me. (But) I’ve got
him beat by miles. He didn’t get that gene. Don’t tell him I told you that!” she
laughs. 


 

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