Book Purchase From Seattle Pacific

She was scarcely allowed to run while in high school and her college had no team nor track. Yet Doris Brown Heritage would become the greatest runner of her generation, setting numerous American and world records and winning an unprecedented five consecutive world cross country championships.

The story of Doris and her unlikely rise to prominence is detailed by her longtime coach and later, colleague, Dr. Ken Foreman. Foreman’s book, The Fragile Champion, is now available for purchase from SPU, with a portion of the proceeds going toward the Heritage and/or Foreman Athletic Endowments.

Use the above link, or click on the image, to make your order.

Options for contribution and purchase are listed below.

• $50 Contribution Level: Donor receives a copy of “The Fragile Champion” autographed by Doris Heritage
• $100 Contribution Level: Donor receives a copy of “The Fragile Champion” autographed by Doris Heritage and Ken Foreman, and a personal note from Doris Heritage
• $200 Contribution Level: Donor receives a copy of “The Fragile Champion” autographed by Doris Heritage and Ken Foreman, a personal note from Doris Heritage, and one DVD of which includes the following four video clips from Coach Heritage’s career:

1. Video of Doris’s world record run of being the first woman in the world to break the sub 5 minute indoor mile record.
2. “Doris’s Last Mile”, done by KOMO TV.
3. “Run Like a Girl”, a documentary on Women’s Running. Doris is one of the 3 primary people interviewed in this film that tells the progress female athletes have made in their right to compete as women and the impact that Title IX has made in women’s sport (in this case, running).
4. “Running for November”, created by the SPU men’s cross country team, captures the story of their team effort to qualify for the NCAA Division II National Cross Country Championships. None of these men were athletic scholarship athletes (because SPU has no athletic scholarships for men in cross country), yet they ran for the love of running, for the joy of competing, and to challenge themselves to develop the physical talents that God gave them.

Doris Heritage is the Seattle Pacific University cross country head coach. Author Ken Foreman, the patriarch of Falcon athletics and legendary track and field coach, now coaches high school athletes in Hawaii. Both Heritage and Foreman were charter inductees to the Falcon Legends Hall of Fame. Also read Doris Heritage's bio on the cross country coach's page.