Grace’s Cally Coleman pictured with her state championship medal at the recent Idaho track and field tournament at Middleton High School.
Grace’s Cally Coleman, third from left, pictured with her state championship medal at the recent Idaho track and field tournament at Middleton High School.
Grace’s Cally Coleman runs a cross country race this past fall.
Grace’s Cally Coleman pictured after winning a cross country race this past fall.
Grace's Cally Coleman waves to the crowd during a recent track and field competition.
GRACE — Cally Coleman has written her name across the distance running record books at Grace High School.
Her first record came last November when she completed the IHSAA state cross country course at Eagle Island as Grace High School’s first-ever state champion, setting a new 2A course record of 18 minutes, 47.5 seconds.
As she wrapped up her running career at Grace High School during the IHSAA track and field competition in May at Middleton High School, Coleman stamped her name on three more school records: the 800 meters (2:22.49), the 1,600 meters (5:20.35) and the 3,200 meters (11:40.77).
When Coleman laced up her running shoes as a seventh-grader, she never knew where running would take her.
Coleman graduated from Grace last week after transferring from Malad High School before the start of the school year. She quietly stepped into her senior year open-minded and driven at a new school with a new running program. She brought a winning mentality that combined work ethic with ambitious goals.
“My advice for underclassman is to set high goals and dream big,” Coleman said. “If you don’t, you’ll never have something to work toward or achieve.”
Coleman’s focus was always on seeking improvement rather than attention. Anyone who knows her understands that her heart and grit ultimately wrote her name in Grace High School’s history books.
Coleman’s mother Cindy said her daughter never missed an opportunity to perform and improve, whether on a hot summer day or during the cold, miserable wind and snow of Southeast Idaho’s winters. Undeterred by the weather, Coleman saw each day as necessary training to reach her goals.
Coleman’s journey wasn’t fueled by natural talent alone but by determination to break individual boundaries. She created her own workouts during off-seasons, whether on dusty trails or snow-covered roads, incorporating core workouts and self-designed yoga routines. She understood that the off-season is where real training begins.
Jeremy Smith, Coleman’s coach at Grace High School, said, “Cally was one of the more gifted athletes I’ve had the opportunity to work with in Grace. Her tolerance for hard training and difficult workout sessions is something I have rarely seen as a coach. Not only was she naturally gifted, Cally also took it upon herself to find ways to make herself better outside of normal practice time, researching ways to strengthen her mind and her body. She was able to elevate the level of women’s endurance running at Grace High School this past year and she will be missed.”
Coleman’s self-discipline became personally empowering. Her mental toughness and positive motivation became routine thought processes. This inner strength resulted in her shattering each school record she competed for.
And now her legacy will live on with the records stamped with her name at Grace High School.
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