A look into the life of Erin Lafave, a member of the RIT Track and Field team and competitor in the Deaf Olympics.Biography Erin LaFave has been called Rochester Institute for the Deaf's top runner the Michigan resident won the 800m and finished second in the 1500m and 5000m for the 2007 Pan American Games for the Deaf. 2011 Women's Cross Country Roster: http://www.ritathletics.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=8102
Erin LaFave of the RIT cross country team, will represent the university at the 2011 NCAA Cross Country Championship: http://www.ritathletics.com/news/2011/11/15/WXC_1115111056.aspx
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LaFave was an All-American athlete at Lahser High School in Bloomington Hills, Mich. and competed in the Deaflympics in Taiwan in 2009. She joined the RIT cross country team her first year, but decided to take the next two years off as she switched majors and focused on her academics.
Stevens says it is rare for athletes to return once they have left the team, but LaFave had the desire and motivation to fulfill the needed requirements to rejoin the team... Read more: http://www.ntid.rit.edu/news/ritntids-erin-lafave-headed-ncaa-cross-country-national-championships
