Q&A with Addi Dorenkamp, Valley state record holder now at Colorado

Register blogger Lance Bergeson interviewed Iowa girls all-time 1,500-meter and 3,000 leader Addi Dorenkamp on his podcast, The Run Around Iowa, on April 15. Addi was a track and field star at Valley High before starting her college career at Alabama in the fall of 2024 before transferring to Colorado a year ago. Addi has been injured for nearly her entire career in Boulder and talks about those injuries and much more in this Q&A.

Q: It's been just a real, real tough grind for you injury-wise. What's been happening here? A: When I was a freshman at Alabama during indoor track season, so this was like February, I found out I had a stress reaction in my femur.

So that was kind of the first one that I guess started this whole thing. And then (I) took some time off and rehabbed it, tried to get back into running, and during this time I made the decision to transfer and leave Alabama. So I transferred to Colorado, I did that like at the beginning of May.

And then … Q: You entered the portal in April? A: Yeah, It was like end of April. … Then, during the summer while I was, you know, trying to build back and stuff, I ended up finding out I had another stress fracture.