Okhaloma State University Track And Field Tori Ortiz often says that discovering track and field in elementary school changed her life. The young Illinois native grew to become a three-time Upper Eight Conference champion and broke seven school records during her senior year at Batavia High School. After two years at Illinois State University, she decided to start over…in Oklahoma.

“When I came to Oklahoma, I had never walked away from anything. I was born and raised in Illinois for 20 years of my life. And I just packed up my car and my cat. And I drove all the way to Oklahoma, and it forced me to grow up,” Ortiz told me in a one-time interview last…