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Born and raised in the greater Portland area, Erin attended Clackamas High School in Milwaukie, Oregon before trading coasts and attending Rutgers University, where she earned a degree in Music Performance, and later a Masters in Music Performance from Stony Brook University. Erin is a trendsetter in the world of women's race walking. Not only is she one of the fastest women 50k race walkers in the world, but she is a driving force behind change in the sport to include the 50k as an event for women, which has been solely a men's event until recent. She says, "We had the first ever women's 50k area championship, NACAC, basically North America, Central America and the islands," an event which she won.  Then in 2016 the IAAF changed it's rules and opened the 50K up from a men's only event to a gender blind event.  She was the first woman to compete with the men in Rome, Italy where she placed 39th at the World Team Championships of Race Walking.

The 50k race walk is only one of many areas which Erin shines. She is an accomplished professional double-reed musician and has even played solo at Carnegie Hall. As if that was not enough to occupy her time, she also lives on a farm in upstate New York with, cats, cows, and chickens. You want more? She also gives clinics and volunteers at the local high school's track and cross country practices. She says, "I love my sport! I love how sport brings people together with common ground.  No matter where I go in the world we always have something in common, our love of sport."