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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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Wave Rider 17! Miles: 24.00
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After a long day of traveling, which included a layover in Salt Lake (flights were cheaper from Vegas),  Jesse and I arrived in Honolulu!  After dinner we went for a run.  Since we are staying in Laie, we did two loops to BYU-H and back, and two loops to the temple and back.  Super sweaty and moist thanks to the humidity! :) so happy to be on a real honeymoon!

Wave Rider 17! Miles: 5.00
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This morning after enjoying a sunrise on the beach, Jesse and I went for a run :)  We ran to a community bike trail that runs along the Kamehameha Highway and went out for a bit.  Just past a mile in, we passed a state park so decided to run through there.  It was a campground, and the beach was right behind it.  It was beautiful.  By the time we were back out on the highway, we had added on another mile.  We kept going out a little bit more before turning around.  This was a really nice trail, and it was also neat to see so many kids riding their bikes to school on it :)  What a lovely community :)  Hawaii is awesome :)  We saw a lot of geckos on the last part of our run.

Wave Rider 17! Miles: 5.00
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This morning sleep sounded better than running.  So I waited before getting up.  When I was getting ready to run after breakfast, it started raining!  So Jesse and I drove around the North Shore and to the Dole plantation for some Pineapple ice cream :)  The afternoon was spent boogie boarding :)  and I saw a turtle!   After dinner we were getting ready to run and it started to rain again!  But we went running in it anyway.  We did the BYU-H loop and the temple loop, Jesse did one of each with me and then I finished on my own and added on to get to 5 total.

Wave Rider 17! Miles: 5.00
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After watching another Hawaiian sunrise with Jesse, we parted so I could get my run in.  I ran out 2.5 miles on the bike trail by the highway, then on the way back did 3 minutes on 2 minutes off.  I made it through 3 full sets and then was at about 2:30 on the 4th on part when I got back to the house.  Today's fun included paddle boarding at Kualoa Ranch.  I got swept away by the current (just past the buoy that marks off the small swimming area designated by the tour group. I was being washed further down shore and was not in real danger) but then I was surrounded by sea turtles!  So for the afternoon we went to Waikiki to go snorkeling on a boat tour that took us out into the water and stopped above a reef where we could see turtles stopping for fish to eat the algae off of them :)

Wave Rider 17! Miles: 5.00
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Hopped over to Kauai today hoping that the weather would be better than on Laie as Iselle was going past.  Our hotel had bike rentals, and a nice trail behind it right alongside the beach, so Jesse and I biked 8 miles.  Then we ran 4.  Our quads hurt!  And we accidentally scared a chicken out into the road, where it got hit by a car.  And got up.  And got hit by the back tire of the same car.  But then it got up and ran the rest of the way across the street.  In the moment I felt so bad for the chicken, but thinking about it now I think it was hilarious!!!  Decided 4 miles would be ok and that I could do 6 tomorrow to finish off the week...  

Wave Rider 17! Miles: 4.00
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It rained all night and we were on flash flood warning.  I even got texts from the National Weather Service, how cool is that?  They were able to send warnings to all phones in the area without us having to give them any information.  Because it was still raining and was probably going to rain all day, at about 6am Jesse and I booked our flights over to Maui!  Where we did the road to Hana.  In the evening we were not liking any of the hotels we were finding, so we booked the last flight back to Oahu.  After a late arrival and an hour still to drive, I skipped the run today.

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