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Quick Facts
Represents: USA
Age:
26 (November 29, 1981)
Hometown: Freehold, NJ
Residence: Ann Arbor, Mich.
Graduate: University of Michigan ‘04, ‘05
Coach: Mike McGuire
Event: 1500m (4:05.75 PB, 2005)
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Career Highlights
- 2nd, 2006 USA Championships 1500m
- 2005 NCAA Indoor Distance-Medley Relay Champion
- 3rd, 2005 NCAA Indoor Mile
- Big Ten Champion 1500m (2004, 2005), 800m (2005)
- 2005 Big Ten Indoor Champion 1500m, 3000m, 5000m
- 6-time All-American
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Background
 Lindsey Gallo started running in middle school to follow in the footsteps of her dad, Rocco, who was a top New Jersey 800-meter runner in high school. It wasn’t until she finished as the top collegian at 1500 meters at the 2004 Olympic Trials, however, that she started to mull a career in the sport.
It’s not as if she doesn’t have other choices: a two-time “ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year” in track, Gallo maintained a perfect 4.0 grade-point average through both her undergraduate business degree and a master’s degree in accounting, and is toying with the idea of pursuing a PhD so she can someday become a professor of accounting. Owner of the fastest 1500m by an American woman in 2005, Gallo has been a devotee of the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” since she was a seventh grader, and says “one great part about being a professional runner is that I can watch it almost every day.” |
