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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, Sep 24, 2011
Race: Stanford Invitational (3.75 Miles) 00:21:41, Place overall: 35, Place in age division: 3
Total Distance
12.00

This morning after arriving at the golf course at Stanford and getting settled, we did a warmup around the course to familiarize ourselves with the course.  Then we did our routine drills and strides.  We had a little over 2 miles then.  Then we changed shoes, I wore my pink spikes, its been a while!  We went over to the starting area and got in our box, we were in 35.  We did a few strides and then did our team prayer and cheer.  The boxes were narrow and they had us put 2 on the front and 2 behind and everyone else behind another line.  When the gun went off and the race started, it was crazy packed!  Right next to me I saw a girl tumble to the ground, taking a team mate with her.  I was lucky not to have been dragged down as well.  The whole first loop I didn't even know what part of the course I was at because of how packed it was.  I just kept passing girls the whole time.  Going up the hill towards the turnaround of the first loop I could see a team in yellow in a pack so I decided to make them my target and focused on catching them, which I did.  On the second loop when I got to the turnaround I had a panic moment because I saw where the course continues for the guys race and thought that we were actually on our small loop and I was really confused.  But then I was relieved when we passed the part of the course where the small loop actually cuts in.  On the last lap I was almost in no-man's land but then I counted the girls in the pack just in front of me and found that there were 10.  So I made it my goal to pass all 10 of them before the race was over.  Going up the hill to the turnaround I caught 1-4, and then coming back down I caught 5-8.  The rest of the race was a battle to get numbers 9 and 10.  At one point I could tell that we were all going the same speed, I wasn't closing on them at all.  Going down the final straightaway I passed 9 but I think she passed me back, but I did pass a girl who started walking before the finish.  I felt that I had a great race for my first college invitational.  However, I am in the same trap as in high school of not getting out fast enough and having to work my way up.  I know that I can place higher up if I get into a better position from the start.  I'll just have to keep working on improving that.  Afterwards I changed shoes back and I ran a cooldown with Macee.  We followed Amanda, Alyssa, and Cassie on the bike path.  We turned around at a mile, but we missed the entrance to the course where we had left for our cooldown so Macee and I actually ended up with 2 and a half miles cooldown instead.  

In the evening after returning from a night in San Francisco, I went for a 20 minute run with Bekah.  We just ran out on the road by our hotel and back.  I needed a little bit more mileage so after that I ran on the treadmill until I had 3 and a half for the evening.

Comments
From Jake K on Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:43:55 from 67.177.21.60

The hardest part of those big XC meets is the start... you have to get out crazy fast to get in good position... but that's not always the ideal way to run your best race. Its a tough balance. But it seems like you ran very strong and were picking girls off left and right.

Congrats on a great first BIG XC meet!

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