Imogen Gardiner, Tori Starcher_SG_03292024_134

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Three-time NCAA West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2023; T&F winter 2023; spring 2023, 2024)

As a Junior 2023-24)
Outdoors

  • Ran season best 1,500 of 4:34.67 at Bryan Clay Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Helped Stanford to the team victory at the USF Invitational

As a Sophomore (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Raced once, in the 1,500 at the Mt. SAC Relays
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Raced four times, twice each in the mile and 3,000
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Made collegiate cross country debut at the USF Invitational

As a Freshman (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Made collegiate debut at the Razorback Invitational, running the 3,000

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • Did not compete

Prior to Stanford

  • Won the 2021 Australian under-20 titles in the 3,000 and 5,000, and was third in the 1,500
  • Ran 4:39.23 to place third against mostly university competitors in the Albie Thomas Mile in Georges Hall, Australia, on Dec. 19, 2020
  • From December 2019-February 2020, won the 1,500 at the Australia and Oceania under-18 championship meets, and swept the 1,500 and 3,000 at the Australian All-Schools Championships
  • Capped that stretch with a big 1,500 personal best at the Sydney Track Classic, running 4:20.34
  • That time placed her No. 56 in the world for the 1,500 for under-20 for 2021
  • Won 1,500 at the 2021 Athletics ACT Championships at the Australian Institute of Sport in 4:20.50
  • Won the 800 to help Australia to the team title at the 2017 International School Sports Federation Championships in Nancy, France
  • Australian 2019 All-Schools national champion in the 1,500
  • Second in the 1,500 at the 2019 ISF Championships in Split, Croatia
  • Won Oceania U18 1,500 championship in 2019 in a meet record

Personal

  • Parents are Dave and Zena Gardiner
  • Brothers are Alexander and George
  • Father was a decathlete at Cambridge (U.K.) University and was president of the Cambridge Athletics Club
  • Followed two-time NCAA javelin champ Mackenzie Little from Pymble Ladies' College to Stanford
  • Calculated that her home in Sydney is 29,845 laps of a track (7,418 miles) from Stanford 

Career Results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023-24 Outdoors (5) 1,500 4:34.67 -- -- --
    3,000 9:59.86 -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Cross Country (1) 6K 22:31.2 -- -- --
2022-23 Outdoors (1) 1,500 4:40.29 -- -- --
  Indoors (4) Mile 4:56.77 -- -- --
    3,000 9:43.34 -- -- --
  Cross Country (3) 6K 20:54.4 -- -- --
2021-22 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (2) 3,000 9:55.78 -- -- --
  Cross Country (0) -- -- -- -- --
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2021
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2022
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2023