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2010 UHSAA State T&F Championships

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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, May 15, 2010

Race: 2010 UHSAA State T&F Championships (2 Miles) 00:11:16, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

4.50

I had stayed the night in Provo so that I could get more sleep for not having to drive to the race. I arrived at the track a little after 7:30 and then found Natalie. We got ready and started our warmup at 8. We did about a mile and a half in the field to the side of the track. Then I took my Gu, and we did some drills and strides while we waited for our race to be called into the bull pen. We got in some good strides while we waited, just focusing on staying warmed up during our wait. Finally we were called in and we changed our shoes. I was seeded number three, so for the first time ever I got to start in the first alley. At the line I did some strides. As the gun went off I held myself back from going the pace that I wanted to go. Bill told me to try and work in a pack today so I did. The first lap was too slow though, only a 1:22, and Bill had wanted me to hit a 1:17. I knew I would have to push to try and make it up. I ended up going out to the front with Kelsey from Boxelder. We led the race for a few laps. I could tell when she would throw in surges to try and break away from me. I stuck with her. The first mile was a 5:40, 15 seconds off of what Bill had wanted me to run. Then with about 3 laps to go I started to lose her. With 2 laps to go the Ogden girls caught up to me, they had started their kick already it looked like. I tried to push with them as they moved away from me, and then again I tried to stay with the Orem runner as she passed me. From the 600 I started trying to really close that gap. The last lap I was still not that far behind, and at the 300 I tried closing in more but it wasn't coming. Going down the last stretch was when I really was able to get on my toes and run with everything I had left. I finished about a second behind Kelsey, and 8 seconds behind the leader. I'm proud to say that being in the 4A division, it was the most competitive and my time and the girls ahead of me would have won any of the other divisions. I'm glad to be finished with track (well at least for a few weeks) and to have been able to run faster times this year than ever and compete against the best competition in years. Afterwards I did about a mile cooldown with Natalie, who had a great race also, taking 15th and getting a new personal best by 31 seconds.

Spikes Miles: 2.00

Comments

From Sasha Pachev on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 21:35:25 from 192.168.1.1

You've made a lost of progress lately. Solid times. Congratulations.

From Burt on Sun, May 16, 2010 at 00:45:01 from 98.177.220.145

Great job Susannah. You're almost as fast as I was in high school. The girl that was 8 seconds ahead of you was faster than me. There weren't any girls in the state of Arizona faster than I was in high school. It just seems like girls are getting faster and faster. Good luck next year. Will you be a senior or freshmen in college?

From Rob Murphy on Sun, May 16, 2010 at 14:55:20 from 98.202.182.29

Susannah, I'm the coach at Alta and I just wanted to tell you how impressed I was with the way you raced yesterday. You showed a lot of guts going for it from the start.

From Taylor the Iron Man on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 19:58:23 from 70.58.33.31

Hey, I was there!

It was an excellent race, I wish I could have been there for you 1600.

Next year I'll qualify and have to be there anyway.

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