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Lisa Christina Nemec (née Stublić) (born May 18, 1984) is a Croatian long-distance runner. Born and raised in the United States, where she competed for the Columbia University, Stublić moved to Croatia, her father's homeland, and established herself as a leading long-distance athlete in the country, having set the Croatian records in 3000 meters steeplechase, 5000 meters, half marathon, and marathon. She is the first Croatian marathon runner ever to qualify for the Olympic Games. ==Early life in the United States== Stublić was born on May 18, 1984 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Her father was born in Sisak, Croatia, but emigrated to Germany at age 18, then moved to California and finally to Connecticut. Her mother is an American of Italian descent.〔 As a teenager, Stublić was not interested in running. In high school, Stublić had to pick a sport, but she disliked team sports, and – after she quit swimming on her first training session – running was the last option left. In her first race run on a course, Stublić won two minutes ahead of the rest of the field. With virtually no training, she became one of the top 10,000 m runners in her high school and qualified for the state championship. She set high school best time of 10:51 in 3200m.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stublic, Lisa - TFX Rankings )〕 Among several college athletic scholarship offers, she chose Columbia University and moved to New York in 2002 to study music theory.〔 At the Columbia University, Stublić started training in earnest for the first time, and improved her 5000-meter results by two minutes in the first two years. In the third and fourth year of college, she switched from 5000 meters to 10,000 meters and steeplechase.〔 She was a member of the women's cross country team that won championship titles in each of the four years she competed. Stublić qualified for the NCAA Nationals in cross country four times and earned the All-American honors once, in her senior year, placing 10th in the nation.〔 Despite her athletic achievements, at that time Stublić's primary interest was art – music, poetry and drawing – and she still saw running as little more than a hobby.〔 After graduating, Stublić lived in New York, working two jobs and began competing for New York Athletic Club.〔http://www.nyrr.org/sites/default/files/Transcript_Stublic.pdf〕 By late 2007, though, she was growing dissatisfied by her financial situation and the fact she could still not find a job as a professor of music. Feeling what she described as a "quarter-life crisis", she decided to move to Croatia for a couple of years and to learn Croatian.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lisa Nemec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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