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Nevada Twliight

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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 10, 2011

Race: Nevada Twliight (2.6 Miles) 00:15:07, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 3

Total Distance

10.00

This morning I ran an easy 2 miles out to 1700s and back. I got my mom to run a block with me going each direction, she had just started walking before I began my run. Afterwards she took me to get a bagel :) Now its off to Reno for the race tonight!

Tonight after arriving at the race course we had a little while to get settled and ready before we began to warmup. About 45 minutes before our race we went for a team warmup. We did a few laps in the baseball fields where we were set up and then we went and ran part of the loop on the course. Then we returned to the baseball diamonds to do our drills and strides. Then we went and changed shoes. I got about 2.5 miles warmup including the strides we did on the line. We circled up and did our team prayer and cheer, and then we got on the line. When the race started I got right up to the front and ran next to Alyssa and we led the pack for the first little loop. Since we were running under the lights, it made it so that just after passing each set of lights we could see the shadows of the girls behind us, which was useful every lap in figuring out where the other runners were. Going into the second loop Alyssa picked it up and broke away, and Bekah went with her. Then going up the hill I got passed back and forth by Lucy and two of the UNLV girls, who were also wearing red so from the corner of my eye it was hard to tell who was who. Getting to the downhill portion I was able to pass them back, but then on the next lap which was a bigger lap a UNR girl passed me on the uphill. At that point I knew that when I passed back on the downhill I was going to have to go hard since it was the last lap and once we were off the little mountain it wasn't that far to the finish. I was able to breakaway from them and I pushed all the way over around the field and then kicked it in down the final straightaway not too far behind Bekah. When I was leaving the finish chute I turned and saw that Hilary had finished 4th! A few places back, Lauren finished 10th bringing our final team score to 20, earning our team first place and winning an engraved plate for it :) Afterwards we started to cooldown in the baseball diamonds, and Kate, Lauren, and I decided to get our iPods and then we ended up going out on the road for a bit so we wouldn't get bored going in circles. We ended up with 3 miles total for cooldown.

Comments

From Sarah on Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 19:17:53 from 75.165.242.250

Gasp! good luck!!!!

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