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Great Southwest 2011

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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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Sat, Jun 04, 2011

Race: Great Southwest 2011 (2 Miles) 00:10:56, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

3.50

After relaxing in our hotel room all day except for when we had to leave to get food, Nat and I got our stuff and took the shuttle to the track. When we got there Bill tool us to get waffles since we still had a few hours and he took Nat to get her t-shirt so she could get printing on the back. Finally when we were back at the track and had our shirts printed and had taken a POTTY break we went and warmed up. We ran for about 5 minutes and then stopped to stretch. After that we did a few drills and ran for a bit longer. We were doing strides and then it was time to get to the track and put our spikes on. Bill had put some towels in a bag of ice from the hotel and we draped those over our shoulders as we changed our spikes and then did a few strides on the track. Finally they began to line us up. The start of this race was not like one I've done before, they started us 2 in a lane at the green lines which mark the 200 starts and we had to stay in the lanes for the first 100 meters. It was fun doing it this way instead of in alleys! I took the lead immediately and held onto it for most of the race. My first lap was a 1:13, and at the 800 I was at 2:33. On the third lap I could tell that there was a girl coming with me, but she never tried to pass me so I figured she must be struggling to hold the pace or she was sitting and would have a good kick. At the mile I was at 5:22. There were times when I would surge and I could tell I was separating a little bit on her but I never was able to pull away. With 2 laps to go Bill was saying 700 left and telling me to go. The girl behind me moved at 700 left and really separated on me and at that point in the race it didn't look like I was going to be able to catch her, I didn't have a kick in me at that point. Going into the final lap she had probably 10 meters on me but hadn't been opening further since when she broke off. At 300 I went to my toes and pushed and noticed that I was closing on her. I kept it up through 200 to go and then reaching the final stretch I told myself that since I closed on her as much as I had that I would be able to catch her and I did with maybe 50 meters to go. It was a great race and I was very proud of my finish, Bill was complaining that I never kick that hard in other races haha. Afterwards as I was on the podium they announced that I would receive a special award from the family sponsoring the 3200. A really cute elder lady gave me a watch in memory of her brother who had been a great distance runner. At age 19 he left to fight in WWII and never returned. She came to America and got married and had a son who she named after her brother. He was a distance runner too, and his 5 daughters were runners. It was neat to talk to her afterwards to get more of the story, I couldn't hear all of it on the podium but afterwards they gave me the piece of paper that the announcer had read about it in addition to what they told me. Afterwards Nat and I went to dinner with Bill, and now it is officially time to start cross country training!!! =DDD

Comments

From Kam on Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 22:05:15 from 174.23.120.174

Hey, what a surprise. You got a first place! haha

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