Nicole Hunt

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  www.mtstandard.com/articles/2009/05/29/sports/hjjajehaj - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 5/29/2009  

  See the Web sites IMAthlete.com or www.buttespissandmoanrunners.com or speedfoot@aol.com or phone Nicole Hunt at 846-7527 for details.

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  1998 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/1998    Last Visited: 3/13/2009  

  Nicole Hunt and I (the author) accomplished another first today. We became the first married couple to claim both women's and men's individual victories. I have always considered myself exceptionally lucky, and yet, I never imagined that I would know a woman as fast as Nicole, let alone marry one.
  
  Nicole is a self described "jogger turned runner" who started training seriously in the winter of 1992, after she and her family returned from Chicago to her girl-hood roots in Missoula. In her previous years in the Midwest, Nicole had become convinced that she could one day break the 20-minute barrier for 5K. Nicole 'walked on' to the University of Montana's 1992 track team, and there she did lower her 5,000 meter PR down past 20 all the way to 18:01. I met Nicole while I was the assistant men's cross-country coach for the Grizzlies. Nicole colored herself as a jogger in my eyes when she asked my advice about her new racing spikes: "I've never seen this kind of shoe before. How do I get the pointy metal things screwed into the shoes?"
  
  Nicole transferred to Montana State University a year later, and there became even more devoted to training. New PR's have resulted in each successive season.
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  Today, Bozeman's fourteen-year-old Nordic skiing sensation, Kristina Trygstad, led the first stage of the race before relinquishing the lead to Nicole.

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  Hall of Fame - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/11/2006    Last Visited: 3/13/2009  

  Nicole Hunt rick Judge

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  Nicole Hunt - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/13/2009    Last Visited: 3/13/2009  

  Nicole Hunt
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  Nicole Hunt (formerly Nicole Murray)
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  Nicole Hunt's family moved a lot when she was young, including several stops in Montana. They lived mostly along Interstate Highway 90 between Seattle and Chicago. One Spokane-area home allowed Hunt the opportunity to run her first race at Bloomsday in 1982. The furthest her family lived away from I-90 was Kalispell, and that is where Hunt realized that she loved to run.
  
  As a ninth-grader at Flathead Junior High, Hunt was thrilled when she broke the six-minute barrier for 1600 meters. Unfortunately, it was then that her family moved to Chicago. Hunt enrolled in a Chicago-area high school that did not sponsor a cross-country team, and that did not even have a running track. She described her years in Illinois as being very depressing. Her running dreams became trapped inside her with no release.
  
  Hunt worked as a nanny in Europe for a year after high school, before returning to Illinois to start college. Again, Hunt's school did not offer running sports, and so she turned to running local road races as a self-described "jogger". The sub-twenty-minute 5K became Hunt's first real running goal, and she struggled for two years without achieving it.
  
  Nicole Hunt (left) celebrating 2006 Cup victory with teammate, Vaia Errett
  
  That is when Hunt's life took an upturn. Her family returned to Missoula and she matriculated at the University of Montana. She subscribed to Runners' World Magazine and began teaching herself how to run fast. Hunt "walked onto" the 1992 Grizzly track team, and she earned a scholarship there when she blazed 5000 meters in 18:01.
  
  Hunt volunteered to work on the finish line crew at the very first Montana Cup in 1992. Continuing her migration along I-90, Hunt missed the 1993 Cup after moving to Bozeman to attend Montana State University's School of Nursing. She also joined the Cats' cross-country team, and continued to blossom as a runner.
  
  In 1994 (Cup victors) and 1995, Hunt competed for Missoula's Cup team while she started her nursing career. 1996 found Hunt working near, and running for Butte. Another job/team change came the next year when Hunt organized her first Cup team for Bozeman. Hunt also claimed her first of six individual Cup victories that year. She was part of Bozeman's 1999 winning Cup team. 2000 brought another brief move to Spokane and then back to the Butte-area.
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  Nicole Hunt on far right.
  
  All told, the nomadic Hunt has won six individual and three team Cups in fourteen tries. Her three team titles were won while competing for three different city teams (Missoula '94; Bozeman '99; Butte '06). Hunt has set noteworthy PRs in other races (4:59 - mile; 15:52 - 5000 m; 33:24 - 10000 m; 2:40:39 - marathon). In 2006, Hunt lead team USA to a gold medal at the World Mountain Running Championships, which were held in Turkey. Hunt is now self-employed as an Internet based running coach.
  
  Nicole Hunt racing along the Missouri River in the 2004 MT Cup.
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  Nicole Hunt's Montana Cup History

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  Ray Hunt - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 3/13/2009  

  Nicole Hunt
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  "I am pleased to report that the Montana Cup Hall of Fame members have selected a 2007 Inductee by unanimous vote (this could be the first time that John Hartpence, Robert Sowers, and rick Judge have unanimously agreed on anything -- by contrast, the other HOF member, Nicole Hunt, is a very agreeable person).

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  Team Organizers - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/13/2009    Last Visited: 3/13/2009  

  Open Women Team Organizer: Nicole Hunt 846-7527; speedfoot@aol.com
  
  Masters' Women Team Organizer: Eddi Walker 494-5995; fastfeet@bresnan.net

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