SEATTLE (Mar. 26) -- Doris Heritage, the longtime cross country and track coach of Seattle Pacific University and former international running star, is among this year's four inductees for the National Distance Running Hall of Fame.

Competing for the Falcon Track Club (forerunner of the SPU women's varsity program), Doris Brown Heritage won five consecutive world cross country championships, 14 U.S. track and cross country titles and twice represented the United States in the Olympic Games. She has been an SPU coach for the past 37 years.

This will be the third hall of fame induction for Heritage. She is also in the U.S. Track & Field Hall of Fame and in 1999 was the second female inducted into the United States Track Coaches Hall of Fame.

The induction ceremony will be held during the internationally-acclaimed Boilermaker Road Race / Hall of Fame Weekend in Utica, N.Y., July 13-14. Joining Heritage in the Class of 2002 are: Browning Ross, an Olympian, eight-time AAU cross country champion and founder of the Road Runners Club of America; John J. Kelley, the U.S. National Marathon champion for eight straight years and two-time Olympian, he won the Boston Marathon in 1957 and was runner-up five times; Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike and legendary coach at the University of Oregon, is credited with turning Eugene into the running capital of the world and producing 24 NCAA individual champions and four national team titles.