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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: Trojan Invitational (0.9 Miles) 00:04:31, Place overall: 4
Total Distance
7.50

This morning I started warming up with Giselle and Charlotte about an hour before our race.  I did 3 miles, then met back up with them at the field for strides and drills.  We changed shoes in the bull pen and then they walked us over to the track.  They were running ahead of schedule, but they wouldn't start events early which was nice.  I took my time doing a few more strides, and finally the time came for us to line up.  As far as strategizing for this race, I thought 74-75s sounded manageable for my training.  I decided I would go with the pack though and race.  I knew I needed to not try to take the lead at the start, and had to visualize the race.  I reminded myself that the first time I would pass the finish line, I would only have 1200 to go!  I decided I would kick the last 500.  When the race started, I went right to the inside behind the pack and just let them pull me along.  The first lap was 73, not bad.  I just stuck with the pack and kept to the inside.  The race was a blur, everything seemed to pass so fast!  With 2 laps to go I knew I would need to move soon, so on the straightaways I fought for the position I would need to get into to move.  Coming up on the final lap I was thrown off for a few seconds when the number of laps hadn't been changed from 2 to 1... but they rang the bell so I knew I was right!  I started my kick with 400 to go and kept moving up and around people.  Coming down the final straightaway I moved into 4th!  And I surprised myself by clocking a 4:31.29!!!  Much faster than I had hoped, but I won't complain about that!!!  Needless to say, I was very happy with this race :)  And I think I finally beat my PR from my split of my best 1600 in high school!  And had this been a full 1600 I would have gotten a PR as well I believe :)  Burke told me that my time made tenth on Utah's all time list!  What a wonderful day :)  For cooldown I took my iPod and explored the area around campus for about 3 miles to finish at 7.5 for the day.  Kep told me my splits afterwards, he says they were 73, 74, 73, and that my final 400 was 70!!!  :)  Happy happy day!!!

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 6.50
Comments
From Jake K on Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 19:53:38 from 67.177.11.154

Congrats... 4:31 is smoking!

From Susannah on Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 20:41:28 from 98.202.222.219

Thanks! It is tempting to want to stick with the 1500 for more of the season... but I really think I can make NCAAs in the 10k, I'm excited to see what I can do this season.

From Jake K on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 09:12:46 from 155.100.226.191

Your speed will be an advantage in racing 5/10K this spring. Now you know that you can close FAST. I think the 10K will be a great opportunity for you.

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