Marathon Winner: 'i Would Not Be Where I Am If I Were Not Training With The U Of I Group'

'There's no other place in the country where there’s the coaching and the staff combination that there is at Illinois,' said Parkland student Daniel Romanchuk, who set the American record in the men's wheelchair race and become the youngest winner ever. BOSTON — It was a surreal experience for Daniel Romanchuk, who was all by himself in the closing miles of Monday’s Boston Marathon. Every so often, the Parkland College student would look back, and by the end of the race, he was so far in front of second-place Masazumi Soejima that he couldn’t see him. read more