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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, Oct 27, 2012
Race: Pac-12 Conference Championships (3.75 Miles) 00:21:06, Place overall: 28, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
8.75

This morning after arriving at the race course I walked a bit of it with Giselle and Charlotte.  With about 50 minutes before race time we started the team warmup.  After about 15 minutes and then our usual strides and drills, we ran back over to the tent to get our shoes changed and get over to the line.  Hanah had me take ibuprofen for my knee around then too.  I only did strides up from the start line because coming down on the way back made the pain flare up.  Finally after announcing everyone's names from every team, it was time to start the race.  We were in box 12, which kinda sucked but then again it's not as big a race as pre-nats was so it wasn't a big deal.  Going out I almost got tripped and had to throw my arms out in weird flapping motions to not fall.  I caught my balance, but it really hurt my knee and slowed down my start.  I decided to just relax though, which was good because I could tell the race had definitely gone out too fast for a lot of people.  I was behind Kate and Nikki for the whole first smaller loop even.  In that loop when I could see whole teams together I knew I would have to catch them (though I wasn't worried too much about it at that point, I knew I needed to wait before moving).  I passed Nikki and Kate coming out of the loop and heading down to the 1k mark at the start of the second bigger loop.  Kep told me Giselle was hurting so I needed to work up to her, and I did catch up to her at about the 2k mark when it was time for both of us to move.  I wasn't able to run right next to her when I caught her because there were people in the way, but she didn't come with me.  2k-4k I felt really nauseous and was hoping I wouldn't puke, but I still managed to keep passing people.  Going into the third and final loop I had made my way into a group with 2 Oregon girls and a Colorado girl, and not too far ahead of us were 2 Washington girls that we were closing the gap on.  We all passed each other back and forth the last k, we were between 25th and 29th place.  Coming to the final downhill and straightaway I was able to outkick one of the girls and secure 28th, meeting my top 30 goal.  And I got another PR by 4 seconds :)  but still haven't broken 21!!!  That will be my goal at regionals!!!  I am happy to have shaved a few seconds off my time at each race, I just need to get rid of these last 6 seconds now!  After I finished I turned around and saw Giselle finish, throwing her shoe down onto the mats to make sure they read her chip (good thing they give us those for both shoes!) because it turns out she had lost her shoe in the first quarter mile of the race!  So ran most of it with one barefoot!  She is a champ!  And had a nasty blister on the bottom of her foot.  Amanda was 6th :)  and our team took 7th :)  Pretty good showing in a conference with half the teams ranked in the top 25 nationally :)  For cooldown I ran some with Hilary and then the team, and then to 2.5 on my own to finish.  I iced above and below my knee afterwards. 

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 4.75
Comments
From Jake K on Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 20:31:50 from 67.41.164.189

Great job Susannah. Sub 21 is yours @ regionals!

From Susannah on Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 21:06:05 from 98.202.87.3

Thanks. I really hope so!

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