Lauren’s ‘Florida’ In Top 10 For Award, Sarah Still Among Top U.S. Contenders COOPERSTOWN – It’s been quite a week for the Groff family of Cooperstown, mom Jeannine reports. Novelist Lauren Groff’s short-story collection, “Florida,” advanced to the top 10 candidates for this year’s National Book Award in the fiction category. Lauren’s “Fates and Furies,” hailed by President Obama as his favorite book of 2015, made the top 10 list that year. Her sister, Olympian Sarah Groff, finished as first…
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Sarah True Takes 2nd At World Triathlon Race By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Sarah True took to the podium in second place at the 2016 ITU World Triathlon Series yesterday Edmonton, Alberta, joining Summer Cook in her debut first-place finish and fellow Olympian Katie Zaferes for an All-American podium. Otsego’s Olympian finished the 750-meter swim, 10-kilometer bike, 5-kilometer run course in 56:53, just narrowly missing Cook’s first place finish by three seconds. It’s her first race since a quad…
COOPERSTOWN SHOWS TRUE LOVE TO SARAH Sarah True’s Olympics Cut Short, But Cooperstown Still Proud By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A leg cramp in the middle of the bike portion of the Triathlon ended Sarah True’s last Olympics, but the crowd gathered at the Hard Ball Cafe to cheer her on is still showing their love to Otsego’s Olympian. “We’re proud of her no matter what,” said Matt Hazzard, executive director of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce,…
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Groff Daughter Wins Berth For 2016 Triathlon In Rio Cooperstown Olympian Sarah Groff – now Sarah True – and her London Games teammate Gwen Jorgensen today became the first U.S. triathletes to make the 2016 Olympic team with fourth- and first-place finishes respectively at the ITU World Olympic Qualification Event in Rio de Janeiro. Next summer’s Games will also be in Rio, and True and Jorgensen will be looking to become the second and third Americans to win an Olympic…
Groff Short Story Among America’s Best COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown native Lauren Groff’s story “At Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” joins Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Baxter on the pages of the 2014 “Best American Short Stories,” edited by Jennifer Egan, author of “A Visit from the Goon Squad.” The story originally appeared in the spring issue of Five Points. Groff is the author of the New York Times best-selling “Monsters of Templeton” and “Arcadia.” She is the sister of triathlete Sarah Groff, who placed…