At one point during Lauryn Williams' storied high school track career at Rochester, she was asked about her growing celebrity as the fastest girl in the Pennsylvania. "I don't even think about stuff like that," she said humbly. "To me, I'm just plain old Lauryn." But at Rochester, at the University of Miami (Fla.) where she competed collegiately, and as an American sprinter who ran in some of the world's most prestigious championships, Lauryn was never "just plain old Lauryn."

Consider that Lauryn, a 2001 Rochester graduate, is one of just five athletes in the world to have won a medal in both the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games, and was the first American woman to do so. Lauryn won a second-place silver medal in the 100-meter dash in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, and in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, she was part of the American 400-meter relay team and that won the gold medal. Then, in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, she won a silver medal as a member of the USA's two-woman bobsled. Simply put, Williams was a world-class athlete.

For Lauryn, her track success started at Rochester when she was the fastest girl in the state and one of the fastest girls in the country. She won the 100 and 200 at the PIAA Championships as a sophomore and junior. As a 10th grader, she set the state record with a time of 24.9 seconds in the 200. As a senior at states, Lauryn won the 100 and 200 again, setting records in both sprints (11.78 and 23.85); those records still stand today. She also won a gold medal by running a leg on Rochester's winning 400 relay team. Lauryn finished her high school career with seven WPIAL gold medals and seven gold medals at the state meet.

In track, Lauryn has traveled the world. Beside her trips to the Olympics, her track talents took her to Kingston, Jamaica for the World Junior Championships in 2002, the Dominican Republic for the Pan American Games in 2003, Monte Carlo, Monaco for the World Athletics Final in 2004 and 2005, Moscow, Russia for the World Indoor Championships in 2006, and Helsinki, Finland and Osaka, Japan for the World Championships in 2005 and 2007.