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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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October Miles: 32.50
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Team run today. Most everyone came since we had lifting afterwards anyway, and I think everyone who still has break wants to take tomorrow off. We did the first mile on the track as usual, then went out and back on Foothill and 1900e for the remaining distance. Finished with strides on the track and then weights. 

October Miles: 6.50
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Last day of break before returning to daily practice.

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Break is over. It is back to daily runs now. We did the first mile on the track and then ran 15th. The 6 mile group turned around just before 1700s. The pace felt fast, and the way back uphill was rough. But we did it. And then did strides at the track. Lifted afterwards. I doubled my PR on chin-ups! By going from 1 to 2 💪🏼👄

October Miles: 6.50
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I was late to practice today because I was working on a group project for my biostatistics class. Student first, athlete second. Now I understand why Bekah wasn't able to make a lot of the runs her senior year while she was also in a masters program. If more people on the team were graduate students then they would understand. Yay for end of semester projects. But it is about time I get caught up on homework, missing two weekends in a row for regionals and then nationals made it's mark on my homework pile. Anyway, I started with a mile on the track and then took advantage of being on my own to run 11th Avenue, since no one ever wants to run there. I enjoyed it :-) finished with strides at the track. Skipped my GS because that's what I've done all season. Ha ha ha...

October Miles: 6.50
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6 miles on one of the cool looking treadmills in the Sorenson that I haven't used yet. The belt is thicker and in segments, I think designed for lower impact running. I finally got to see a doctor about my foot!!! Since my heel has been hurting all season, and somehow getting my arch taped was supposed to take care of it. Anyway, X-rays were unrevealing of a stress fracture, but I am getting an MRI next week to take a closer look. The treadmill was partially for lower impact but also to avoid the yucky Salt Lake inversion air. 

October Miles: 6.00
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One of the freshman asked if we had practice today. So the answer became yes. It was cold at 9am at Liberty Park. But at least my "long run" max is 7 right now, so it was less than an hour. And it got warmer as we went. We were supposed to do the first lap at the park, but were allowed to go out after that. So we did, out and back on 500e, and one more lap in the park when we got back. Kep was out of town for Footlocker or Nxn, so Coach Mack brought us donuts and hot chocolate!!! That made it worth it :-) foot hurt really badly the rest of the day. 

October Miles: 7.00
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