Who Is Suzy Favor Hamilton’s Husband?

In December 2012, after being confronted by a reporter, Favor Hamilton admitted that she had worked as an escort prostitute. Favor said her decision to become a prostitute was made under the influence of her antidepressant medication, a misdiagnosis of her bipolar disorder, and an unfamiliarity with the mental illness. She cited the effects of the suicide of her brother, Dan, in 1999, on her condition. She had learned from her therapist that the antidepressant she was taking had put her in a manic state, saying “It wasn’t Suzy. I keep trying to emphasize that wasn’t me. It was the disease.” After her prostitution became public, the Big Ten renamed its award for Female Athlete of the Year which had previously carried her name. Favor Hamilton also lost several sponsorships and athletic business relationships, including with Nike. She is now a speaker at mental health conferences, and wrote her memoir Fast Girl about healing from bipolar disorder.

In 1991 and 1992, Favor Hamilton was a volunteer assistant cross country coach at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

At the University of Wisconsin, She won the Honda Cup and Babe Zaharias Awards for Top Female Collegiate Athlete in the country. She was named by the Big Ten Conference as the top Female Athlete in Conference History. Coached by Peter Tegen, she became one of the top middle distance runners in the US in the 1990s. She won a record nine NCAA championships, 32 Big-Ten championships and a silver medal in the 1989 World University Games. She won four USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and three USA Indoor Track and Field Championships all in the 1500 meters.

In 1990, she won the Honda-Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation’s best female collegiate track and field athlete. In 1991, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation’s top female cross country runner. In addition, she was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the nation’s best female collegiate athlete.

Favor Hamilton began running at age nine. She attended and competed at Stevens Point Area Senior High, graduating in 1986. She was the US Junior Record Holder at 1500m and won 3 National Junior Titles in High School. She was named by Scholastic Sports Magazine as one of the top 100 High School Athletes of the Century and was inducted into the US National High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.

Suzy Favor Hamilton (born August 8, 1968) is an American former middle-distance runner. She competed in the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Summer Olympics.

Suzy Favor grew up in 1968 to Conrad and Rachel (Skundberg) Favor in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1991.