Sophia Kennedy_SL_083024_034

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades 

  • Two-time All-American (Indoor T&F 2024; Outdoor T&F 2024)
  • All-West Region XC (2023)
  • Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2023; T&F 2024)
  • NCAA West Region XC team champions (2023)

As a Freshman (2023-24)
Outdoors

  • Second-team All-American
  • Placed 11th in 5,000 at NCAA Championships
  • NCAA time of 15:33.29 set a Stanford freshmen outdoor record
  • The time was a personal best and placed her No. 2 on Stanford's absolute freshmen list
  • Won NCAA West Prelims in 15:53.49 for her first collegiate victory
  • Set 1,500 personal best of 4:20.14 at Payton Jordan Invite
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

Indoors

  • Second-team All-American
  • Ran anchor leg on 10th place distance medley relay team at NCAA Championships
  • Ran 3,000 personal best of 9:14.28 at UW Indoor Preview
  • The time placed her No. 5 on Stanford's all-time freshmen list

Cross Country * West Region Champions

  • All-West Region
  • No. 3 runner on Stanford's 12th place team at NCAA Championships
  • Second in the USF Invitational in collegiate debut
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

Prior to Stanford

  • Fourth in the two-mile at the 2023 Brooks PR Invitational in a PB 9:57.09
  • Indiana 3,200 champion in 2023
  • Seventh at 2022 Nike Cross Nationals
  • Champs Sports Midwest Region cross country runner-up in 2022
  • Seventh at 2021 Eastbay Cross Country Championships
  • Third at 2021 Eastbay Midwest Region Cross Country Championships
  • Fifth in the two-mile at the 2021 Brooks PR Invitational and eighth in 2022 

Personal

  • Parents are Melina and Bob Kennedy
  • Brother is Marcus
  • Four-time cum laude
  • A.P. Scholar
  • Father, a two-time Olympian, was one of the greatest runners in American history
  • Bob was sixth in the 5,000 at the 1996 Atlanta Games, a seven-time U.S. champion, and held American records in the 3,000, two-mile, and 5,000

Career results

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2024-25 Outdoors (7) 5,000 15:33.29 4 (16:34.88) 1 (15:53.49) 11 (15:33.29)
    1,500 4:20.14 -- -- --
  Indoors (6) 5,000 15:43.05 -- -- --
    3,000 9:14.28 -- -- --
    Mile 4:43.09 -- -- --
  Cross Country (6) 6K 19:56.3 23 (19:59.5) 15 (19:56.3) 95 (20:38.7)
    5K 16:58.7 -- -- --
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