Musician Chappell Roan recently shared a funny and slightly embarrassing story about her time as a high school runner during an interview with Nardwuar.
Few musical artists have seen as big of a jump in fame as Chappell Roan in 2024. Her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, was squarely in the zeitgeist—it was impossible to avoid songs like “Red Wine Supernova,” “Pink Pony Club,” and the extremely catchy “Hot To Go!” Last month, we wrote about Roan’s running history. In high school, the six-time Grammy nominee ran cross-country and track for Willard High School in Missouri, nabbing a 5K personal best of 20:06.
96 at a sectional meet her freshman year in 2012. Kayleigh Amstutz (her real name) went on to run at the Missouri State Cross-Country Championships, where she finished in the top 150 with a time of 22:03.85.In a video released on December 16, Roan, 26, offered a glimpse into her time as a runner in an interview with the music journalist Nardwuar. The two talked at a record store in Los Angeles and Nardwuar—who is known for asking niche questions about an artist’s past—prodded Roan about her time as a cross-country athlete.Nardwuar, starting at the 1:40 mark in the video, referenced a race where Willard High teammate Chloe Andrews got 6th place and Roan ran 22:03 for 19th. (Runner’s World has scoured the internet to find the meet, but we can’t find anything that’s an exact match. The closest we could find was the 2013 Nixa Cross-Country Invitational, where Andrews was fourth and Roan was 30th in 23:03. Nardwaur could also be referring to the aforementioned Missouri state meet, where Roan ran 22:03 but was 149th and Andrews did not race.)Roan shared a not-so-pleasant memory from the meet. “Well, I pissed my pants at the end of that race,” she said. “I, like, peed myself.” “Is that usual?” Nardwaur asked.“If your body is…giving out, yeah, you pee yourself or throw up on yourself. I think I did both,” she said. “I was trying really hard. That was the fastest I ever did. Which is like, it’s fast, but it wasn’t, like, crazy fast.”(Again, according to Milesplit, Roan’s 5K PB is 20:06 from 2012
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