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TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Four-time All-American
  • Two-time XC All-West Region (2018, 2019)
  • West Region XC team champions (2021)
  • XC All-Pac-12 first team (2019)
  • XC All-Pac-12 second team (2020-21)
  • Two-time Pac-12 team champion (2019, 2020-21)
  • Three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2020, 2021; XC 2020-21)
  • Two-time MPSF All-Academic (2019, 2020)
  • Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021; T&F 2020, 2021, spring 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (XC 2018, T&F 2019)

Personal Bests (thru 2022)

  • 1,500: 4:11.06
  • Mile: 4:35.56i
  • 3,000: 8:59.38i
  • 5,000: 15:50.70
  • 10,000: 35:02.74

As a Fifth-Year Senior (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Made 10,000 track debut with 35:02.74 at the Mt. SAC Relays
  • Season 5,000 best was 16:19.12 at Payton Jordan Invitational
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country  West Region Champions

  • Raced in the season-opening USF Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Senior (2020-21)
Outdoors

  • Big Meet 3,000 winner
  • Advanced to NCAA West Prelims in the 1,500 
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country Pac-12 Champions

  • Ninth place at the Pac-12 Championships
  • No. 4 runner on Pac-12 title team
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • All-Pac-12 second team
  • No. 3 runner on third-place NCAA Championships team
  • 56th at NCAA Championships

As a Junior (2019-20)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled

Indoors

  • Earned two All-America honors, in the 3,000 and distance medley relay
  • Qualified for the NCAA Championships as the No. 9 seed in the 3,000 and as the anchor leg on the No. 2-seeded distance medley relay team
  • Her 4:35.56 mile is No. 2 in school indoor history on a 200-meter track and No. 5 on Stanford's indoor list
  • Set a 10-second PB in the 3,000 with an 8:59.38, good for No. 6 in Stanford indoor history
  • Anchored Card DMR to first in the Razorback Invitational
  • The team's 10:55.89 was No. 5 in school history
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

Cross Country  • West Region ChampionsPac-12 Champions

  • All-American
  • All-West Region
  • All-Pac-12 first team
  • Placed 11th at NCAA Championships, earning her first cross country All-America honor
  • Pac-12 third-place finisher as Stanford went 1-2-3 and won the conference title
  • Second at the NCAA West Regional

As a Sophomore (2018-19)
Outdoors

  • 10th in NCAA 1,500
  • Second-team All-America (1,500)
  • Moved to No. 6 on Stanford all-time 1,500 list
  • Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
  • Big Meet 1,500 winner
  • Ran eight 1,500's, all faster than her PB going into the season
  • Ran PB of 4:11.06 at NCAA West Prelims
  • Set PB in 5,000 by nearly 40 seconds with 15:50.70 at Cardinal Classic

Indoors

  • Anchored distance medley relay team twice
  • Ran opening leg of MPSF runner-up DMR team
  • MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country

  • All-West Region
  • Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
  • Stanford's No. 3 runner most of the season
  • Improved 144 places in one year at the NCAA Championships, from 186th to 44th

As a Freshman (2017-18)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 1,500
  • Made the 1,500 final at the Pac-12 Championships, scoring with a sixth-place finish
  • Ran season-best 4:22.88 while placing fourth at the Big Meet
  • Made collegiate track debut with a 4:22.75 to win her section at the Stanford Invitational

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country

  • Helped Stanford to fourth place at the NCAA Championships
  • Made collegiate debut at the Dellinger Invitational, placing 23rd
  • Stanford's No. 7 at NCAA's, regionals, and Pac-12's

Prior to Stanford

  • New Balance Outdoor Nationals champion in the 5,000 (16:38.54)
  • No. 2 time in nation for that distance in 2017 while at Corning-Painted Post High School
  • Seven-time state champion
  • Set a freshman New Balance Indoor Nationals record in the 5,000 of 17:08.45, while running for Corning East
  • Twice a Foot Locker cross country nationals finalist, placing 111th in 2015
  • Two-time New York Gatorade Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year
  • Four top-three finishes at New Balance Indoor and Outdoor Nationals
  • Third at 2017 New Balance Outdoor Nationals two mile (10:22.65)
  • Broke Section 4 cross country championships course record held by Olympian Molly Huddle
  • Owns Section 4 record in the 1,500 (4:22.38)

Personal

  • Parents are Ray and Julie Lawson
  • Has four younger siblings – Nathan, Alicia, Sarah, and Christopher
  • Father was a member of University of Rochester's 1991 NCAA Division III cross country championship team
  • Owns and raises purebread Holstein heifers
  • Bought her first cows in eighth grade and won a calf in an essay contest, beginning her own dairy herd

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2021-22Outdoors (6)5,00016:19.1226 (17:00.45)----
1,5004:30.20------
10,00035:02.74------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (1)6K22:35.0------
2020-21Outdoors (4)1,5004:21.4712 (4:25.30)47 (4:39.82)--
5,00016:23.2517 (16:25.83)----
3,00010:00.14------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (4)6K19:41.94 (19:41.9)--56 (21:06.9)
2019-20Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (4)Mile4:35.562 (4:35.56)----
3,0008:59.38------
DMR10:55.89------
Cross Country (5)5K16:51.0------
6K19:38.13 (19:38.1)2 (19:54.2)11 (20:24.6)
2018-19Outdoors (6)1,5004:11.062 (4:17.03)4 (4:11.06)10 (4:16.04)
5,00015:50.70------
3,0009:56.88------
Indoors (4)3,0009:09.8814 (9:19.40)----
Mile4:46.04------
DMR11:02.502 (11:02.50)----
Cross Country (6)6K20:21.527 (20:41.9)24 (20:21.5)44 (20:40.4)
2017-18Outdoors (5)1,5004:22.756 (4:28.50)21 (4:26.94)--
5,00016:29.43------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (5)6K19:50.537 (20:03.7)52 (20:52.6)186 (21:24.8)
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