Janice Ettle, two-time winner of Grandma's Marathon and winner of the 1985 Twin Cities Marathon, grew up on a farm near Freeport. She finished 14th at the 1987 World Marathon Cup and competed in the 1991 Pan American Games women's marathon. She is one of a small number of women to have competed in five United States Olympic marathon trials. In the 1984 race (the first ever, for the first woman's Olympic marathon race), she finished sixth.