heather prepares to take her spot atop the ceremony podium. that s when audrey smoot of indi indiana university brings her back down to earth. audrey won the first heat just before heather s, besting heather s time by slightly more than 1/10 of a second, but she didn t fall down. she s like, i actually won. i was like, oh, sorry, i ll just scoot on over to take second there. it was just one of those funny things, that i was just on cloud nine and thought i d won everything, and it took someone to say, hey, move over! heather s second place overall finish in the 600 meters adds a crucial eight points to minnesota s team total. eight points was exactly the margin of our victory for the team that day. so it s kind of a happy coincidence that if i hadn t gotten up and finished the race, we would have lost or tied. heather graduates from the university of minnesota in december 2009, but coach wilson