Lucy Steinmeyer’s plan: From Lübeck via the USA to European and World Athletics Championships

She particularly enjoyed the Christmas days with the family in Lübeck, Lucy Steinmeyer. Because the model athlete of the LAC Lübeck sits on packed suitcases. On January 3rd, the 22-year-old is going back to the USA, this time to Warrensburg, a small town in the US state of Missouri, where she is continuing her master’s degree (kinesiology / psychology as a minor) at the university and studying with her old trainer Dan McCarty makes fit. Her ambitious goal: A place in the German 4 × 400 m relay at the European Championships in Munich in July and the subsequent World Championships in Eugene (USA). “I know that this is very ambitious because everything has to come together. But that’s my big dream, ”she says confidently.

After coach shock: teacher in Lübeck

The petite, 1.68 meter tall blonde is a fighter – not only on the track. She proved that last year. She finished her studies with a bachelor’s degree in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the north of the USA, and was chased from record to record in parallel over the 400 meters. She had improved her best time by a whopping seven tenths to 53.96 seconds. After an interlude in Germany in the summer, she was supposed to go back to study for a master’s degree and training in the States, but her coach turned his back on the university shortly before departure. Trainers gone, enrollment deadlines for the semester in Germany have passed. “That was a shock, I was down,” she admits. But she got up again and returned – to Lübeck. She trained at the LAC and worked as a substitute teacher at the Albert Schweitzer School.