STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford sophomore Amy Bunnage was named Women’s Indoor Track Performer of the Week by the Atlantic Coast Conference on Tuesday.
Bunnage was honored for her record-breaking performance at the John Thomas Terrier Classic on Friday on the 200-meter track at the Boston University Track and Tennis Center.
Bunnage was the top collegian and third overall behind two Olympians in the 3,000 meters and broke Stanford oldest women’s indoor record in the process. Bunnage clocked 8:43.82 to beat the 1983 time of 8:53.54 by PattiSue Plumer, a 1988 Olympian and four-time U.S. champion, while setting an American record. Plumer held off Joan Benoit by 0.01 at New Jersey's Meadowlands.
Bunnage, who crushed Stanford’s absolute 5,000 record on the same track in December, ran the seventh-fastest time in collegiate indoor history and is now No. 6 on the all-time collegiate indoor performers’ list.
Bunnage, 19, also breaks her own Australian under-20 absolute 3,000 record of 8:51.90 (outdoors from 2023) and the Aussie U20 short-track (indoor) record of 9:08.57 by Melany Smart in 2020. Bunnage now is No. 5 on Australia’s all-time senior 3,000 short track list.
Bunnage leads NCAA Division I in the 3,000 and is No. 5 in the 5,000. The top 16 nationally advance to the NCAA Indoor Championships March 14-15 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.