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Member Since:

Jun 01, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

NCAA Champ

Running Accomplishments:

My Personal Records are:

High School 

1600 meters - 5:34 Freshman, Regions

          5:30.44 Sophomore, State

          5:13.35 Junior, State

          4:54.68 Senior, State Champion!!!

3200 meters - 11:59.9 Freshman, State

          11:50.33 Sophomore, State

          11:15 Junior, BYU Invite

          10:30.88 Senior, Arcadia Invitational (sea level)

          10:39.23 Senior, State Champion!!!

College 

1500 - 4:31, Trojan Invite 2013 

3k - 9:44.01, MPSF 2012 

5k - 16:34, Stanford 2013

10k - 34:46.94, Mt. SAC 2013          


Half-Marathon - 1:24:30.56 (Handcart Days)

In my freshmen year, I lettered in both track and cross country. I also got the Rookie of the Year Award in cross country, and the Freshmen of the Year Award in track. At regions for XC I was 7th. At state I was 65th. In track at regions I placed 3rd in the mile and 2nd in the 2 mile. At state I was 17th in the mile and 13th in the 2 mile.

Sophomore year I was a cross country captain and I lettered again. I was 3rd at regions and 12th at state. At track regions I was 3rd in the mile and the 2 mile. I also anchored the winning medley relay team.

Junior year I got a stress fracture about a month before the cross country season started, but made a great comeback with a 2nd place finish at regions.  At state I placed 6th, and I broke 19 minutes for the second time in my racing history.  Team captain again. In track I shattered my old PRs and was doing well until I got a stress reaction.  After 3 weeks off I built my strength back up and performed well at state, earning 4th in the 1600 and 5th in the 3200.  After that, I was invited to the Great Southwest Track Meet in Albuquerque, where I took 5th.

My senior year in cross country I was a captain again, this time with Amanda and Natalie.  This season I was injury free so I got to run competitively at invites.  At state I took 3rd.  At Footlocker Western Regionals I outkicked a girl on the track to finish 10th, which qualified me for nationals the next weekend.  I beat both of the girls who had beat me at state in that race.  At nationals I took 22nd and beat 6 of the girls who had beat me at regionals.  Going into the outdoor season the first Invitational I attended was the Davis Super Meet where I qualified for state in the 1600 and the 3200, and I broke the meet record for the 3200 in an 11:01.29, the previous record was an 11:17.  I had a strong finish to my senior season and finally claimed a state title.  I ran the fastest 1600 and 3200 at state for any division, claiming the double crown in those events, and earning the athlete of the year award :)

Now in college, I run for the University of Utah.  I lettered my freshman season of cross country, and made it to regionals in the 5k in track.

Sophomore year I improved in cross country.  In track I raced the 1500, 5k, 800, 10k, and the mile of the DMR before repeating the 5k at conference and then the 10k at regionals.  Placed 28th behind a lot of seniors... so nationals next year!! 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

 Run a 5k in under 18 minutes

Win state in the 1600 and 3200

Place in the top 5 at state in the 1600

Make it to Footlocker National Championships 

Make it to nationals 

Run sub 16:30 5k

Run sub 9:30 3k 

Break the school record in the 10k

Break the school record in the 5k 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be an All-American

Be a conference champion 

Make Olympic trials 


 

Personal:

I am a junior at the University of Utah.  My little sister is a freshman at Utah Valley University.

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Race: Drake Relays (4 Miles) 00:19:49, Place overall: 5
Total Distance
7.00

Nikki and Andrea were the first legs of the relay today, so Bekah and I started our warmup about ten minutes after theirs so we wouldn't be too soon before our legs of the relay. I did 20 minutes, then a few strides and drills back in the warmup gym.We went down to the track and I did more strides and drills there. We may want to work on our time management skills, Nikki just made it on time for the start. She ran about a 4:55 before handing off the baton to Andrea. Kep got her split at 4:59. Bekah fought 3 girls off during her leg and split a 4:58, then it was my turn! Knowing how the right pace for the start of a 1600 and being alone is hard when you're used to the 5&10k... my first 200 was about a 33. I knew I needed to back off, but I didn't want to so much that I would come through too slow. The wind didn't help with judging effort level either. Through the first 700 meters I could hear footsteps behind me, but eventually I pulled away from whoever was there. The teams in front of me were too far gone, so I was just running. Finally with 500 to go I picked it up and closed the gap on some girls who I knew I was lapping. I finished in 5th, no change from what I had gotten the baton in. Kep said I split 4:57, twitter says 4:56 so I'm not exactly sure what my split was

Kep didn't get 400 splits, which is probably good since I bet mine were all over the place. But he was happy with us for how we ran, especially when alone or down the back stretch into the wind. I cooled down 3 miles with Andrea. I felt tired towards the end of it, though we were going a good pace. At least from that I can tell I did give an honest effort in the race. I wish I could have ran closer to a 4:50, but considering the circumstances I think we all ran well. And it is awesome we had splits so close to each other. The DMR got moved to Saturday, so it'll be nice to have tomorrow to recover and refocus for another 1600 on Saturday.

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