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Region 6 Championships

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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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Thu, May 12, 2011

Race: Region 6 Championships (0.5 Miles) 00:02:24, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

7.50

Today at the meet for the 3200 I warmed up with Abigail, Natalie, Amanda, and Sarah. We did 2 laps around the block that the school was on and its about .6 each lap. Then I got my spikes and did some drills and strides while the first heat was going. Again Natalie and I were the top seeds so we were in lane 1. We went with plan doritos* for the first and a half laps, switching to plans firebolt* and chili* with 1000 meters left. My time was 12:09.96 and Natalie was 4 seconds behind me. I didn't cool down afterwards but I made sure to stretch out. When it was getting closer to the 800 I did another 2 laps around the school for warmup. Then I did drills and strides as I waited for my heat to get on the line. For this one I was the 4th seed and Josephine was the 3rd seed, our times from the meet last week had gotten us in. Going out I wasn't sure if I should take the lead or try to sit and kick but I ended up doing what I felt was right which was taking the lead after the 100 meter mark and then pushing and hoping that no one would catch up to me. I really focused on pushing hard with good form and staying on my toes. I came in the first lap at 72 and then kept picking up the pace as I got to 300 to go and then 200 to go and then really kicked it in down the last 100. My time was 2:24.04 so I ran even which was awesome. If only I could do that in the 1600, I supposed I could try next week. After I finished that race I stayed on the field doing drills and strides because the medley was the next event. They put the academic all regions between the events to give some time between the 800 and the medley. For the medley we had Victoria and Janie on the 200s and Madeline on the 400. Madeline kicked down the final stretch of her leg and got me the baton in first and then I just had to push as hard as I could for the last 2 laps. Bill and Tolbert told me I had around 15 to 20 meters lead but I wasn't going to let up. I really focused on pushing the last 300 and finished in first with a team time of 4:23.64. After all events were done it was announced that the East girls team had taken first with 164 points! Woodscross was second with 150 points. Before we went out onto the track to collect our trophy Bill opened a bag which had some shirts with "2011 Region Champs" printed on them! They had so much confidence in us that they printed them for us on Monday =) As we ran onto the field each of us kissed the trophy as we walked up, and then each of the seniors got a turn to hold it as we did our victory lap =) It was a great day and a great way to finish up my senior season =) and it really shows what great runners we have at East with our region title in cross country in the fall =) I am so proud of everyone on the team for doing an amazing job and raking in the points, we had strong finishers in almost every event =)

When I got home I did 2 miles with my iPod and took a 15 minute ice bath afterwards.

Comments

From JG on Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:19:43 from 74.190.130.218

Congratulations on an awesome meet, what a great way to close out your high school season!

From allie on Sat, May 14, 2011 at 21:40:49 from 174.23.197.101

congrats, susannah! you have had such a great year. you have worked so hard, and you earned this today. congrats to the east high team as well!

you have a lot of great years ahead of you in this sport. keep up the good work...

From Mattrow on Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:38:34 from 138.64.8.51

Good meet first in 4 events.

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