Roisin Willis Season 2023

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

• Two-time NCAA indoor champion (2023)
• NCAA indoor 800 champion (2023)
• NCAA indoor distance medley relay champion (2023)
• Four-time All-American
• West Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year (2023)
• School-record holder: indoor 800, 4x400, DMR; outdoor DMR
• Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
• World under-20 800 champion (2022)
• Two-time world U20 gold medalist (800, 4x400)
• World U20 Championships 800 record-holder
• National high school indoor record-holder (800)
• USATF Youth Athlete of the Year (2022)
• Two-time NCAA West Region XC team champions (2022, 2023)
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

• 800: 1:59.13
• 400: 52.64
• 600: 1:27.20i
• 1,000: 2:41.53i
• 1,500: 4:13.31
• Mile: 4:49.63
• 200: 25.10

As a Sophomore (2023-24)
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

• Did not compete

As a Freshman (2022-23)
Outdoors

• First-team All-American
• Placed fourth in the 800 at the NCAA Championships
• Ran season-best 800 of 2:00.23 in the first round of the U.S. Championships
• The time placed her No. 2 in Stanford outdoor history
• Ran third leg on Penn Relays-winning distance medley relay that ran school outdoor 10:50.56
• Established lifetime best in the 1,500 of 4:13.31 at the Mt. SAC Relays
• Moved to No. 4 in the 400 and No. 3 in the 1,500 on school's all-time freshman list
• Big Meet 4x400 winner
• Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• Two-time NCAA champion
• Won the 800 at the NCAA Championships in 1:59.53, a Stanford absolute record
• The time was the No. 2 performance and made her the No. 2 performer in indoor collegiate history
• Ran the third leg in 2:02.75 for 800 to help Card win the distance medley relay at the NCAA Championships
• USTFCCCA West Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
• Helped Stanford break the school record in the DMR, running 10:49.30 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
• The time was No. 6 in all conditions in collegiate indoor history
• Anchored Card to school indoor record in the 4x400, running 3:31.71 at the Ken Shannon Invitational

Cross Country * West Region Champions

• Made collegiate debut at the Bronco Invitational, placing 36th

International/National

• Won the 800 in a World Under-20 Championships record 1:59.13
• Anchored the U.S. to gold in the 4x400 relay at the World U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia
• Second at the 2022 U.S. U20 Championships in the 800
• Advanced to the 800 semifinals at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, placing 13th overall
• 2022 USATF Youth Athlete of the Year 

Prior to Stanford

• Two-time 2022 World U20 gold medalist
• Named 2021-22 Gatorade National Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
• Set the national high school indoor 800 record of 2:00.06 in Boston on Feb. 11, 2022
• No. 2 on the all-time high school 800 performers’ list in 1:59.13
• No. 4 on U.S. U20 performers’ 800 absolute list
• Holds Wisconsin state records in the 400, 800, and 1,600 (4:41.46)
• Four-time Gatorade Wisconsin Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
• Won Nike Outdoor Nationals in the 400 in 52.64, the fifth-fastest among high schools in 2022
• Second at the 2022 U.S. U20 Championships in the 800
• Joined Olympians Heather MacLean, Kendall Ellis and Elle Purrier St. Pierre on a distance medley relay quartet that set a world record at the opening of The Track at New Balance in Boston
• Joined future Stanford teammate Juliette Whittaker in setting a world indoor U20 record in the 4x800
• Joined Whittaker on a DMR team that ran the fastest U20 time in indoor history
• Second in the Brooks PR Invite 400 in 2021 and 2022, the latter in a PB 52.64
• Won 2022 Wisconsin state 800 title, and the 2019 state title in the 4x400
• No. 4 recruit in the country for her class by MileSplit 
• Ran 2:00.78 as a junior, a U.S. under-18 record
• Her 2:41.53 in the indoor 1,000, is No. 2 all-time among high school runners
• Called, by her high school coach, “the greatest prep track athlete in Wisconsin history.”

Personal

• Parents are Lee and Breeda Willis
• Mother ran the 5,000 and 10,000 for Ireland at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
• Volunteered as part of a pen pal program with elementary school students and children with special needs
• An accomplished violin player
• Donated her time with the Uplift Foundation, an organization that raises money for women and children in crisis throughout the country

Career Results