Irene Riggs Season 2023
Academic YearFreshman
HometownMorgantown, W.Va.
TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- NCAA West Region XC team champions (2023)
- U.S. under-20 cross country champion (2023)
- Gatorade National Cross Country Player of the Year (2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023)
- Two-mile: 9:50.72
- Mile: 4:38.23
- 1,500: 4:21.09
- 3,000: 9:14.72
As a Freshman (2023-24)
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions
- Did not compete
International/National Competition
- U.S. under-20 cross country champion in 2023
- Represented U.S. at 2023 World U20 Cross Country Championships in Australia, placing 12th and earning a team bronze medal
Prior to Stanford
- Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Player of the Year
- Six-time Gatorade West Virginia Player of the Year, with three each in cross country and track
- Won the 2023 Nike Cross Nationals title in 16:40.9, the second-fastest girls 5K performance in history at Oregon’s Glendoveer Golf Course.
- 2022 Team Southeast Regional champion in 16:02.1, eclipsing the WakeMed course record in Cary, N.C., by 20 seconds and producing the second-fastest 5K clocking by a high school girl in U.S. history.
- Three-time West Virginia state cross country champion
- Won 3,200 at the 2023 Arcadia Invitational in a state-record 9:52.66
- Triple individual winner at the West Virginia AAA Championships (800, 1,600, and 3,200) in 2022 and 2023
- 2023 Nike Indoor Nationals mile winner in a PB 4:38.23
- 2023 Hardman Award winner as West Virginia's top amateur athlete
- Set state indoor record -- and No. 2 time in national high school history -- in the 3,200 at 9:45.97
- Second at the 2022 Brooks PR Invitational in 9:50.72, becoming the fifth-fastest high school two-miler ever, behind only Mary Cain among high school juniors
Personal
- Parents are Vic and Renee Riggs.
- Has three sisters: Abigail, Kathryn and twin Caroline
- Father is the head women's swimming and diving coach at West Virginia University
- Sister, Caroline, is on the Yale swim team
- Student body vice president at Morgantown High School
- Social media coordinator for Mohigan Idol, a Monongalia County talent competition that fundraises for WVU Children’s Hospital
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023-24 | Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |