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NCAA D1 Outdoor Track and Field Championships - West Preliminary

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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 23, 2013

Race: NCAA D1 Outdoor Track and Field Championships - West Preliminary (6.25 Miles) 00:36:42, Place overall: 28

Total Distance

11.00

1 mile shakeout run on my own this morning before breakfast.

With about an hour before race time I started my warmup with Bekah. She did the first ten minutes with me, then I did another few minutes on my own. They wanted us by checkin a half hour before, so I took my spikes and went up there for strides and drills. About ten minutes before we were supposed to start they lined us up and let us on the track for strides. They lined us up on the line, but then they halted the meet for 20 minutes while they went and got us hip numbers! Biggest waste of time :P But I made sure to keep doing strides and drills while waiting. Finally they lined us up. I was on the inside of the outer alley. Going out there were a few girls from my alley who went ahead of me, but I just relaxed since the race was not to be won or lost in those first 100 meters. Joining up with the girls from the first alley I was in pretty decent position. It felt relaxed, and I was towards the front of the pack and on the inside. The first lap split was about 85, then we were almost 3:00 through 800! The pace picked up then, and I think the pack had a lot of 87s. I stuck to the inside and didn't worry about moving to the front of the pack, the race was plenty long for moving up later. There was a lot of shuffling within the pack, but I stayed on my feet the whole time. The first mile split was 5:56! But as long as we were all in one pack I was fine with that. The next 2 miles were about the same, and we were still in a pack until we reached 11 laps to go. Then some girls broke away, and they broke hard. About half the pack fell away then, myself included. I was one of the girls strung off the back, and could see the string of other girls who had done the same and the lead pack. From this point I knew that my chances of nationals this year were gone, but I was determined that at least I would catch some of the girls in front of me. With 10 and 9 laps to go I really wanted to quit, but I made myself keep going. When it got to 8 laps and less I was able to make myself pick it up a bit (or maybe I was just able to push so that I would maintain my pace and not slow down) and battled the girls who tried to pass me and to close the gap on girls in front of me. With about 3 laps to go I was passed by the leaders (my first time ever being lapped during a track race... but for 6 years of track I did amazing keeping it off until now!) and pushed a little bit as I could hear more of the girls passing by. When I saw one of them going into the final lap the same as me I was disappointed that I had thought she was just one of the leaders, so I just let her pass me without a fight :P I finished the last lap and was so grateful to just have finished the race! Especially with the heat it was a big accomplishment! And all 48 girls finished :) For cooldown I did about a mile and a quarter. I am happy for the way I ran this race, staying with the pack was what I needed to do. If I had gone to the front and pushed the pace I am sure the pack would have come with. Looking at the results, there were 15 seniors ahead of me, so that is comforting for next year :)

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 4.25

Comments

From Jake K on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:48:45 from 67.177.11.154

I can't imagine 48 runners on the track at the same time.

You did a nice job considering the heat. The 10K is a great race for you, and will be your ticket to nationals next year!

From Susannah on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:16:06 from 71.213.31.139

I can't believe my career is half over! But next year I am confident in making nationals :) I'm already thinking about racing the 10k sooner next year, and possibly trying to make it in the 5k as well. Since the 10k is first, there will be nothing to lose racing a 5k afterwards. There were 6 girls that qualified in both races this year.

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