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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: Stanford Invitational 2013 (3.75 Miles) 00:21:26, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
9.00

This morning at the course we started our warmup about an hour before our scheduled start time for the race.  After our strides and drills, we grabbed our spikes and went over to the line to check in.  We were in box 1... that was going to be tough since all of the other teams would be running angled towards us since the course goes to the left close to the start.  I decided to let Andrea go on the front line since I know she is a faster starter then me.  And I actually wasn't paying attention when the gun went off, one of the officials had just come by and told us to tuck our shirts in, and then Becky was telling the race was about to start, and then it did.  But for a 6k, I wasn't going to worry about a bad start affecting the outcome of the race.  And actually the start wasn't bad, and I went out just how I wanted to.  I think I was last on our team going out, but I know everyone starts fast at this race, so I wasn't worried.  I just sorta relaxed the firs 2k, moved around groups and kept moving up.  Bekah was with the pack ahead of me, and she passed them and kept going, then I passed that pack and kept going.  Right at about 3k I made a surge and passed a large pack of Stanford girls, who didn't try to stick with me, then Kep shouted to me that I was 13th.  Bekah was just a few spots up, and when she would pass someone I would pass them not to long after.  Going into the final loop, I passed Bekah, but she must have been close by the rest of the time.  I knew I was in 7th then, and could see two girls and then further up 2 girls.  I closed the gap on the nearest 2, and kept working towards the other two.  Coming out of the turn in the big loop I caught one, and then down the hill I worked towards the other and passed her.  I knew it would be tough holding on until the finish.  Then someone caught up to me, and it was Bekah!  The only girls left in front of us were two Stanford girls.  We both maintained our positions as we finished the race.  I don't know my official time yet, but I was really hoping to beat my time from last year.  I was sorta sad that I didn't.  But I did place higher, which was awesome.  And I can say that I have taken 4th at all of my races this season... I wouldn't complain about that at Pre-Nats or Conference or Regionals!  Afterwards we cooled down together, I was with Nikki most of the time.  I finished at 9 for the day.  Then Bekah and I did an interview with Flotrack, that was kinda neat.  Our next race isn't for 3 weeks, so it will be nice to take that time to recover and get some good workouts in.

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/250894-Stanford-Cross-Country-Invitational-2013/video/721102-Utahs-Rebekah-Winterton-and-Susannah-Hurst-3rd-and-4th-lead-the-utes-at-2013

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