Sophia Kennedy_SL_083024_034

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Two-time outdoor second-team All-American (5,000)
  • Three-time West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • Pac-12 XC team champions (2020-21)
  • Three-time All-West Region XC (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • First-Team All-Pac-12 XC (2023)
  • Five-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2021, 2022, 2023; track 2022, 2023)
  • Academic All-District (2023)
  • Seven-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021, 2023; T&F 2021; winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • 5,000: 15:33.13
  • 3,000: 9:04.29i
  • 1,500: 4:14.81
  • Mile: 4:40.41i
  • 1,000: 2:48.97

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

  • All-West Region
  • All-Pac-12 first team
  • Fifth at Pac-12 for career-best conference XC finish
  • Team's No. 2 runner most of season; No. 1 at West Regionals
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Junior (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Second-team All-American in the 5,000
  • Placed 14th in the 5,000 at the NCAA Championships
  • Ran 5,000 PB of 15:33.13 to place third in the Stanford Invitational
  • Broke 1,500 PB with a 4:14.81 for fifth in the invitational at Mt. SAC Relays
  • Earned her highest Pac-12 finish with a third in the 5,000
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Academic All-District
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Ran the 5,000 in 15:42.58 at the Colyear-Danville Opener
  • The time placed her No. 5 all-time indoors at Stanford
  • Ran mile PB of 4:40.41 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • All-West Region
  • Team's No. 2 in five of her six races
  • 15th at NCAA West Regionals
  • 83rd at the NCAA Championships
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

As a Sophomore (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Second-team All-American
  • Placed 15 in the 5,000 at the NCAA Championships
  • Advanced to her first NCAA Championships, placing 10th overall at the NCAA West Prelims in 16:15.64
  • Ran lifetime best 5,000 of 15:41.13 at the Stanford Invite, placing seventh
  • At the Pac-12 Championships, placed seventh in the 1,500 and eighth in the 5,000
  • Fourth at the Mt. SAC Relays in the 1,500 in 4:18.85
  • Double winner at the Big Meet vs. Cal, winning the 1,500 and 3,000
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Led off the 7th-fastest distance medley relay in school history (10:57.74), as team placed third in the Pac-12 Invitational
  • Clocked lifetime best in the 3,000 of 9:04.29, ranking her No. 31 in NCAA Division I
  • Ran mile PB of 4:44.26 at the Razorback Invite, placing fifth 
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • All-West Region
  • Placed eighth to help Card to NCAA West Regional team title
  • Team's No. 2 at NCAA Championships, helping Card to sixth-place finish
  • Stanford's No. 1 at Florida State Open, placing 27th
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Freshman (2020-21) 
Outdoors

  • Advanced to NCAA West Prelims in 1,500 and 5,000
  • Ran 1,500 PB of 4:17.22 in placing fifth at Pac-12 Championships
  • Moved to No. 4 in the 1,500 on Stanford freshman list 
  • Moved to No. 5 in the 5,000 on Stanford freshman list
  • Big Meet 1,500 winner 
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors 

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

  • Stanford's No. 5 runner on third-place NCAA Championships team
  • Placed 17th at the Pac-12 Championships to help Cardinal to team title
  • Made collegiate debut by finishing third in the 'B' race at the Florida State Winter Classic

Prior to Stanford

  • Won indoor and outdoor Massachusetts All-State mile championships
  • Played Elite Clubs National League soccer
  • Switched to running full time as a senior at Newton (Mass.) South High School
  • The fall of 2019 was her first cross country season
  • Though out five weeks with injury during her first XC season, won the 2019 state cross country title in only her third race
  • Fifth in the 2029 NXN Northeast Regional
  • Was the 2019 Massachusetts Division I and All-State mile champion in her only outdoor track season
  • Personal best of 4:45.93 in the mile placed her fifth at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in 2019

Personal

  • Parents are Bill Jenks and Julie Mallatt
  • Has two siblings, Sally and Boomer

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023-24Cross Country (5)6K19:30.05 (19:30.0)11 (19:42.7)93 (20:38.4)
5K16:46.6------
2022-23Outdoors (7)5,00015:33.133 (16:14.68)6 (15:38.35)14 (16:08.16)
1,5004:14.81------
3,0009:39.79------
Indoors (5)5,00015:42.58------
3,0009:08.36------
Mile4:40.41------
DMR11:10.89------
4x4003:58.22------
Cross Country (6)6K19:42.020 (19:54.0)15 (19:42.0)83 (20:30.5)
2021-22Outdoors (6)5,00015:41.138 (16:17.12)10 (16:15.64)15 (15:55.19)
1,5004:18.347 (4:18.34)----
3,0009:37.64------
Indoors (4)3,0009:04.29------
Mile4:44.26------
DMR10:57.74------
Cross Country (6)6K20:04.153 (22:28.1)8 (20:10.7)49 (20:04.1)
2020-21Outdoors (6)1,5004:17.225 (4:17.22)18 (4:18.13)--
5,00015:55.338 (15:55.53)23 (16:30.40)--
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (4)6K20:02.617 (20:02.6)--92 (21:28.0)
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2021
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2022
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2023