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Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference Championships

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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, Feb 24, 2012

Race: Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference Championships (3.1 Miles) 00:16:45, Place overall: 6

Total Distance

9.50

This afternoon about an hour before my race, Andrea did my warmup with me for her premeet since she is racing tomorrow. We went out on the trail we were on yesterday and then turned around at a mile and a half and went back to the arena. Then I went and got my spikes and dropped off my sweats and went over to the track to put them on and do a few strides. I was seed 7 from my time last week, so I had a decent spot on the starting line. When the gun went off, I elbowed myself into position ahead of the 2 girls next to me and settled into the pack. Andrea was getting the splits for each lap; Kep had told me that if I could hold 62-63s then I could get a PR. The first lap was a 68, and at 400 we were at 84. So many coaches were yelling "too slow" but the pack already knew that, and at the 800 we overcompensated and were at 2:41. After that I think we were pretty consistent though. By 1200 Kep told me I needed to stay with the pack I was with, so I did. I recognized Julia from Footlocker who runs for Stanford now so I decided to stick with her since I had raced against her a few times last year. The next few laps I was passing the girls in the pack back and forth. When there was a mile left in the race I was finally able to catch up to and pass some of the girls that were strung out ahead who must have fallen off the lead pack which took off at the beginning. With a few laps left I think Kep was telling me that I was in 8th and I was surprised I was that much up but it helped me push to keep catching people. Looking at my splits afterwards I was surprised to see that this was my slowest 1000 split, but I guess I was just able to hold on better than the girls who I caught. The last lap I kicked it hard and was running in fear because UW had a large cheering section and I had just passed one of their girls before the last lap. No one came into contact and I ended up finishing 6th and getting a new PR :) I was really happy after my race :) Afterwards I changed shoes and grabbed my iPod and went outside for a 3 mile cooldown around campus. Towards the end my legs were feeling great and it got me excited to race tomorrow :) Later back at the hotel I took a 15 minute ice bath.

Comments

From emruns on Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:09:38 from 76.27.114.171

Awesome race. I only managed a 16:57 as a freshman in college. Nice PR. Go for it today in the 3000, and be so glad that you get to run the MPSF meet in Seattle. When I was at Arizona it was in Reno. But, I always ran well at that meet. Nice to see you have success there, too.

From Jake K on Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 17:48:21 from 67.177.21.60

AWESOME RACE!!! I was really happy when I looked up the results last night - you crushed it! And I hear you ran a smoking 3K today as well!

From Susannah on Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 18:03:26 from 65.121.105.8

Thanks, I'm really happy that I broke 17 on a course that isn't running of the leopards! I hope that I can continue to bring my time down during outdoor.

I was able to pull off a 15 second PR in my 3k today as well :) Now I have a 4 week break from racing so hopefully I'll get some good quality workouts in.

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