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Unbelievable But True Story Of Martha Bissah (Rejected Ghanaian Gold Medalist)
This is a lady that won Gold Medals for Ghana in 2013-2014, she was a promising star. She had to drop out of school to train and put Ghana on the Map by setting new World Records that’s Unbeatable till date.
During her time at the university, she was named the Female Athlete of the Year for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019.
Her award in 2019, came after she set a new championship record in the US’ Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) women’s cross-country with a time of 17 minutes, 16 seconds.
In the 2018-19 season, amongst other laurels, she became the first MEAC athlete since 2002-03 to repeat as the MEAC women’s cross-country champion with a time of 18:02.04. She won her third consecutive MEAC 800m outdoor title setting a personal record of 2:03.13 and once again repeated as MEAC 1,500m champion in a meet-record of 4:28.62.
In the month of February 2017, Martha won four gold medals at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Indoor and Track and Field Championships. At her first outdoor season at Norfolk, she won another individual MEAC gold medal and also qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round