Edited sentence: Hearing stories of her dad practicing six hours without water, as a 7-year-old she would practice basketball without water until she would black out.She credits her athletic ability and steely toughness to her grandpa, who earned two Purple Hearts in World War II, and her dad, both of whom played college basketball at Oklahoma State University for 3-time Olympic Team Coach, Henry Iba.She overcame challenges early in life, including almost drowning when she was 3, being born with a Central Auditory Processing Disorder, hearing loss, and having to take speech therapy to learn how to talk and overcome her learning disability.She started running long on Sundays to celebrate her life.When she was 17, her family became homeless when they lost their home and possessions in the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak