Valwood girls cross country coach Deborah Green will run the annual Boston Marathon on April 16.
This year was Green’s fourth attempt in five years to qualify.
According to the Boston Athletic Association website, “To qualify for the Boston Marathon, athletes must meet time standards which correspond to age and gender. Achieving one’s qualifying standard does not guarantee entry into the event, but simply the opportunity to submit for registration. In recent years, not all qualifiers who submit an entry have been accepted due to field size restrictions. If total amount of submissions surpass the allotted field size for qualified athletes, then those who are the fastest among the pool of applicants in their age and gender group will be accepted.”
The qualifying time for Green’s age group was 4 hours.
She qualified this year with a time of 3 hours, 50 minutes.
Green said she wants her athletes and anyone who has a dream “to never give up, do not quit when you are faced with adversity.”