Sophia Kennedy_SL_083024_034

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • All West Region XC (2022)
  • Two-time West Region XC team champion (2021, 2022)
  • Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2022; T&F 2023)
  • Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2023; T&F winter 2023, spring 2023)

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • 10,000: 33:21.12
  • 5,000: 16:09.39i
  • 3,000: 9:29.51i
  • Mile: 4:42.44
  • 1,500: 4:25.35
  • 800: 2:10.90i

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

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Sophomore (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Made collegiate debut in the 10,000 at the Stanford Invitational
  • Time of 33:21.12 placed her No. 10 on Stanford's all-time list
  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 10,000
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Made collegiate track debut at the Colyear-Danville Invitational, running a PB of 16:09.39 for 5,000
  • Clocked 3,000 PB of 9:29.51 at the Windy City Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • Stanford's No. 3 runner at NCAA Championships for 13th-place team
  • Cardinal No. 2 runner at Pac-12 Championships
  • All-West Region
  • Placed 18th at NCAA West Regional
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

As a Freshman (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country

  • Stanford's No. 7 runner at NCAA Championships, helping team to sixth place
  • Team's No. 1 runner in collegiate debut, placing sixth at USF Invitational
  • Second overall at Sacramento State Invitational

Prior to Stanford

  • Won the Brooks PR Invitational two-mile in 10:02.88, the fastest high school time in the nation in 2021
  • Nation’s top prep indoor 1,600 time (4:40.65) in 2021
  • Ran the nation’s No. 4 outdoor time in the in the 5,000 (16:12.40), No. 5 in the 3,200 (10:02.25), and No. 9 in the 1,500 (4:25.35) and the mile (4:42.44) in 2021
  • Triple winner – 800, 1,600, 3,200 -- at the 2021 Michigan Division I championships
  • Michigan Meet of Champions and state Division I cross country champion in 2020
  • Second in the mile and two-mile at the 2021 adidas Indoor Nationals
  • Fifth at the AAU national cross country championships (15-18 age group) with the No. 6 high school time ever recorded at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Florida
  • Michigan Indoor Track Series state meet record holder in the 3,200 (10:24.78)
  • Won nine regional and six Oakland County titles in track and cross country
  • Fourth in mile at the 2021 RunningLane Track Championships in 4:42.44
  • NSAF USA Meet of Champions two-mile winner in 2021
  • Illinois Girls Meet of Champions 3,200 winner in 10:02.25 in 2021
  • Advanced to the 2019 FootLocker cross country nationals, placing 18th
  • Middle school teammate of future Stanford teammate Udodi Onwuzurike 

Personal

  • Parents are John and Lynn DaDamio
  • Sister Rachel ran for Notre Dame and was the Atlantic Coast Conference runner-up in the 5,000 
  • Brother is Matthew
  • Granddaughter of Olympic speed skating champion Terry McDermott
  • Racing the 500 meters, McDermott won the Olympic gold medal in 1964 in Innsbruck in an Olympic record
  • McDermott won silver in 1968 at Grenoble and was seventh at Squaw Valley in 1960
  • Grandfather, Anthony, and father, John, ran middle-distance for Notre Dame
  • In high school, wrote a published feature story about community student-leaders who founded an organization in support of the Black Lives Matter movement
  • Received the Presidential Service Award for performing over 100 hours of community service

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023-24Cross Country (3)6K21:09.6------
5K17:50.1------
2022-23Outdoors (6)10,00033:21.1211 (34:53.46)42 (34:24.65)--
5,00016:27.25------
3,0009:37.48------
Indoors (4)5,00016:09.39------
3,0009:29.51------
Mile4:52.91------
Cross Country (6)6K19:42.315 (19:42.3)18 (19:44.3)93 (20:34.8)
2021-22Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (4)6K20:53.0----210 (21:19.1)
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2022
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2023
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2024