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Stacy Wiley has a photograph of the ultrasound.

Stomach cramps and fatigue signaled something was wrong. Joggers might improve so much so fast, but never state champions. Wiley won in 4:46.93, a record for Indiana freshmen and representing a 21-second drop in less than a month. “As a freshman, I didn’t know any better. When she asked coaches about tactics at the state meet, they told her to follow the girl ahead of her and outsprint her at the end. That gained some attention, but nothing more. In a regional, she dropped 12 seconds to 4:55.19. Heading into sectionals, her top time was 5:07.37. In a mid-April mile at Franklin Central that brings together Indiana’s best, she finished 15th. In 2019, she was puttering along in her freshman track season. More girls track: Gretchen Farley wants state title, even if she must race Indiana's best ever Her 400-meter time of 57.12 ranks sixth in the state. Huntington North coach Brian Milton said Wiley is the team’s beat sprinter, best hurdler, best distance runner. “Whatever she wanted to try, we tried to make it happen.”Įven in track, she had to choose. “No matter what it is, if you would put something in front of her, she’s always the one that’s like, ‘Oh, I can do that,’" her mother said. She is vice president of her National Honor Society and participates in Junior Rotary projects such as packing lunches for kids or serving at the Ronald McDonald House in Fort Wayne. You're doing enough, Addy.Īddy would show pigs and rabbits in 4-H. She became angry at her mother, who said no to join swim team. She would miss track meets to play soccer, or soccer to run track meets. She played travel basketball and soccer as a youth, and wanted to do more. Last fall, she was simultaneously in soccer, in which she was an all-conference player scoring 21 goals, and cross-country, finishing seventh at state despite sporadic training. Wiley has never been a year-round runner. I remember how bad I wished I could play.” Getting up to speed That was an entire winter I had to sit out. “It’s sad because I missed out on so much time with my friends. “It’s just always going to be a part of my story,” she said. The runner is getting close to the requisite 10 years of follow-up exams. Within days, her daughter’s fever disappeared.įollow-up chemotherapy wasn’t required because the surgeons were able to get clean tissue surrounding the tumor, the mother said. The tumor was slightly larger than a tennis ball, Stacy Wiley said. Surgery was scheduled for three days later - Friday the 13th, 2013 - at Riley. A Boston pathologist made the IMT diagnosis, explaining the entire tumor must be removed. Just before Thanksgiving, Addy’s diagnosis was lymphoma. “Science behind the tumor is a little bit of a mystery,” she said. Kari Bjornard, a pediatric oncologist at Riley Hospital for Children, said there are about 150 to 200 such diagnoses a year nationwide. Turns out she had an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), a rare condition that develops in children or young adults. When Addy saw a Fort Wayne infectious disease specialist at Parkview Regional Medical Center, the doctor knew immediately: This was one sick little girl. She remembers being the smallest kid in fourth grade. Little Addy was so tired from walking, and lost so much weight, she had to be carried around by her mother on hospital floors. “Whatever the path may be to get there, that’s what I want to take,” Wiley said.įlashes Showcase: Addy Wiley runs fastest mile by girl on Indiana soil 'Part of my story' After beating cancer, beating runners from around the world seems doable. The Huntington North senior chose Colorado for college because Colorado produces Olympians. She was the fastest high school miler in America last year.Īnd she is a cancer survivor, with titanium staples in her right lung and diaphragm from surgery.

Wiley, 18, is the fastest teen middle-distance runner in Indiana history, setting six Indiana records in five states since February 2021.