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BYU Invitational 2010

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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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Fri, Apr 30, 2010

Race: BYU Invitational 2010 (2 Miles) 00:11:15, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

4.50

This morning when I started my warmup it was snowing a little bit and the field I was warmup up on was covered with a layer of snow. But I had prepared for this race for a while and I wasn't going to let the weather tear my hopes for a better race than last year apart. I got in about a mile and a half warmup, with a few strides at the end. My toes were frozen and my socks and shoes were soaked but it was no big deal. I did some of my usual drills and took my Gu and went into the bullpen to change my shoes. My toes were frozen but it didn't really bother me since I was focused on what I needed to do in my race. I kept on my hoodie when I left the rest of my stuff in the bull pen so I wouldn't lose my warmup waiting for my race to start. It was a few minutes wait at the start line, so I did a couple strides. I didn't take off my hoodie until right as my heat was being lined up. I got to start first position in the second alley. When the gun went off I didn't get out as fast as I should have and got boxed in behind the other girls. When we reached the 100 meter line where we could cut over to lane 1 I was in the back of the pack. I stayed there and relaxed and waited for the next straight to get around so I wouldn't have to run a wide curve. This worked for me and I caught up to the top 2 girls. The first lap split was a 1:17 and it felt just right. Sticking on the other girls I decided would be the easiest way to take it, so I did for the next couple laps. At mile 1 my split was 5:32. By then one of the girls had dropped back a little and I was running neck and neck with the other girl. Then someone came up from behind and started overtaking the lead. I could hear Bill yelling at me to stay with her, and I knew I would have to or I would lose her right then. I pushed ahead, but it wasn't enough to catch her, but still enough that I gapped the girl behind me. As the race went into the final two laps I heard the announcer naming the positions of the girl, and I realized there was a pack of 5 girls behind me. I knew they might catch me and I should have gone at the 600. Starting the final lap I picked up the pace but I could hear another girl closing on me and then she overtook me with 300 to go. I couldn't make myself push as hard as other times. Then going into the final 100 stretch another girl passed me and I couldn't push to kick against her either. I didn't want to get passed by another girl was my hopes for finishing that stretch. I got a new outdoor PR, and my best race since coming back from being injured. I was happy with my race :) Afterwards I changed my shoes back (my shoes were soaked from before) and ran about a mile cooldown with Jamal. Later I took a 15 minute ice bath. Now I hope that things will go well tomorrow.

Spikes Miles: 2.00

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