Laurie Stradley graduated from the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a degree in Kinesiology. During her junior and senior years, she worked in human performance research with a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

She continued her education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Masters of Arts in Exercise Physiology. After defending her Masters Thesis in May of 2004, Laurie began a six-month stay at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts, where her focus was exercise physiology with military application.

Laurie serves on the board of the Girls on the Run Triangle and in her free time enjoys outdoor sports, movies and all kinds of novels.

Favorite way to be active: Softball and swimming
Fitness goals: My brother and I are going to participate in the Rock ‘N Roll Half Marathon in Virginia Beach in 2009. The longest distance I’ve ever run is 10 miles and that was in high school, so it’s going to be rough!
Fitness hero: Dara Torres – you can live your dreams at any age!
Favorite walking or jogging trail: Fearrington Village on the gravel trails.