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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: UNLV Desert Invitational (3.1 Miles) 00:18:23, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
8.00

This morning after arriving at the course in Boulder, we started with a team warmup.  The team went for about 12 minutes but I went longer with some of the other girls and then I finished at about 2 miles.  Then I joined the group in the drills and strides.  Then we changed shoes and headed over to our box for some strides.  We did our team prayer and cheer and then got on the line.  When the race went out I had a good opening and was able to get right where I needed to be.  I was towards the front of the pack, and by the 1k it was a pack of 4 that included me, a girl in blue, a girl in white over red, and a girl in red over red.  The girl in blue was a few meters ahead of the other 3 of us but I figured not to worry about her now since it was a 3 mile race.  Going around turns it was difficult to decide if it was better to use the tangents which went through some soft sand or to stay a little bit longer on the firm ground.  I mostly just did whatever the other girls were doing.  For the 2 and 3k we ended up in more of a pack, but right after we passed the 3k mark the girl in red over red made a move to breakaway so I went with her since I knew if I didn't then I would probably lose her.  That whole K was uphill and I didn't gain much on her but we broke away from the other girls.  Then an unattached girl came up and she passed me and proceeded to pass the other girl.  I knew that because the other girl had been passed, it was likely that I would be able to pass her as well because that's how the mind works in races.  After getting around the pond at the top of the hill its downhill the rest of the race until the finish so I pushed with all I had left.  I passed the girl in red and I stayed about the same distance behind the unattached girl but focused on catching up to her all the way down to the finish.  Right at the finish there is a slight uphill but I just powered right up it and finished in 18:23.  Because the other girl was unattached, she didn't score which meant that I scored 1 and the Utes ended up winning with 33 points overall.  Afterwards we ran a mile and a half cooldown as a team, but then I wanted to do more so I did another mile and a half and the team went back to the hotel to take advantage of the showers which we had earned.  

Comments
From Bill on Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:50:53 from 97.117.63.63

Good Job. Nice focus throughout, always working for the lead. Keep putting yourself in the position to win. Nice to see that you squeeze in those extra miles and the little things that make you the great competitor that you are.

From Bill on Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:52:48 from 97.117.63.63

Oh, forgot to tell you Rosy won st. George marathon Saturday. Maybe you too someday several years down the road.

From Jake K on Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:14:15 from 155.100.226.53

Great race Susannah! You are off to an awesome start... keep it going!

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