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Since he was a teenager, Iiguez has been a prominent runner and has won countless races, mostly during the late 80s and early 90s. When I was a teenager at Santa Ynez High School (California) I watched the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and I watched Carlos Lopez win the marathon and Sebastian Coe win the 1,500 meters, he recalls. That looked like something that was very unique and I felt like I belonged in running. Setting the Santa Ynez High School records in the mile and two miles, Iiguez continued his winning streak in junior college, where he was undefeated for 10 straight cross-country races and was runner-up at the California Community College State Championships. He then landed in San Antonio, Texas to run for UTSA, where he became a two-time TAAC Conference Champion in cross country. Iiguezs college experience honed his running, and he savored a hand-ful of victories at the elite level, including a win at the 1989 San Antonio Marathon, where he set the current event record of 2:16:07. He also won the San Antonio Marathon in 1994, and set a record at the Austin Motorola Marathon in 1995 with a 2:16:27.