Ryan Shay Feature Tuesday on ESPN
Posted Apr. 28, 2008
Tuesday night, April 29th, 2008, the ESPN newsmagazine show E:60, will feature a moving segment on Ryan Shay through the eyes of his wife Alicia, his parents and his coaches, Joe Vigil and Notre Dame’s Joe Piane.
Ryan Shay was a young man on a mission. An elite runner who had won five national titles at Notre Dame in distance running before switching to the marathon. Shay was trying to make the U.S. men’s Olympic team but on November 3, 2007, about 5.5 miles into the men’s marathon Trials in Central Park, the 28-year-old Shay fell to the pavement and subsequently died of a heart ailment.
E:60 reporter Lisa Salters sits down with Ryan’s widow, Alicia, to explore Shay’s promising running career and sudden death. Alicia recalls her last words to Ryan and her impressions of him when she saw him running barely a mile before he took his last steps. She also recounts her struggle to move forward without her husband and best friend while she continues to train for the U.S. women’s Olympic Trials in the 10,000 meters. “I just think about him all the time,” Alicia says, “I’d like to say that I feel his presence with me all the time, but in all honesty there is a huge void …”
The show airs Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on ESPN.
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