Grace Connolly, Sophia Kennedy_Stanford Women’s Cross Country_JT_090123641

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Pac-12 cross country champion (2023)
  • Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year (2023)
  • Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Freshman of the Year (2023)
  • First-team XC All-West Region (2023)
  • First-team XC All-Pac-12 (2023)
  • NCAA West Region XC team champions (2023)
  • Set Australian under-20 records in the 3,000 and 5,000
  • Set Australian and Oceania under-18 3,000 record

As a Freshman (2023-24)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 5,000, placing 17th
  • Placed third in the 5,000 at the Pac-12 Championships

    Indoors
  • Ran 15:11.68 for 5,000 at the Ken Shannon Invitational, setting an Australian U20 absolute record, Stanford indoor record, and Stanford absolute freshman record
  • The time was the fourth-fastest in collegiate history for all-sized indoor tracks
  • Her 3,000 time of 8:54.88 at the Husky Classic on the same Dempsey Indoor track and was good for No. 3 in Stanford indoor history and a school frosh record

    Cross Country * West Region champions
  • Pac-12 champion 
  • Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year
  • Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Freshman of the Year
  • First-team All-Pac-12 
  • NCAA West Region team champion 
  • All-West Region
  • Sixth at Virginia XC Invitational at No. 1 for Stanford in her collegiate debut
  • First freshman to win the Pac-12 title since Stanford's Erin Sullivan in 1999

International/National Competition

  • Six-time Australian champion, at U20, U18, and U17
  • Represented Australia at the 2023 World U20 Cross Country Championships
  • Trained with the Australia U20 national team in 2021 and 2022
  • Represented Australia in the 1,500 at the 2021 Oceania Invitational, placing third in the open division 

Prior to Stanford

  • Set the Australian U20 3,000 record of 8:51.90 at the Sydney Track Classic on March 11, 2023
  • The time placed her No. 14 in Australian history for all divisions
  • Ran 15:21.76 at the 2023 Mt. SAC Relays for the No. 2 Australian U20 5,000 time ever, placing her 25th in national history
  • Set the Australian and Oceania U18 record in the 3,000 of 9:00.60 in 2022 in Melbourne
  • Won Australian U20 titles in the 3,000 and 5,000 in 2023, and the 3,000 in 2022
  • Australian U18 cross country champion in 2022
  • Australian U17 track champion in the 1,500 and 3,000 in 2021

Personal

  • Parents are Ross and Mel Bunnage
  • Has an older brother, Sam

Career Results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023-24 Outdoors (4) 5,000 15:38.75 3 (16:22.73) 7 (15:59.53) 17 (16:00.04)
  Indoors (3) 5,000 15:11.68 -- -- --
    3,000 8:54.88 -- -- --
  Cross Country (4) 6K 19:09.7 1 (19:09.7) 14 (19:50.1) --
    5K 16:26.4 -- -- --