TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Two-time NCAA West Region team XC champions (2022, 2023)
- Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2023; T&F spring 2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
- 1,500: 4:30.71
- Mile: 4:47.17i
- 3,000: 9:30.69i
- 5,000: 16:27.03
- Steeplechase: 10:55.79
- 800: 2:13.31i
As a Sophomore (2023-24)
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions
- Placed 32nd at Pac-12 Championships
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Freshman (2022-23)
Outdoors
- Second in 5,000 at Cardinal Classic in collegiate outdoor debut in lifetime best 16:27.03
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Ran big 3,000 personal best of 9:30.69 before hometown crowd at Windy City Invitational
- Made collegiate track debut in the 3,000 at the UW Indoor Preview
Cross Country * West Region Champions
- Placed 28th at the Pac-12 Championships
- Made collegiate debut at the USF Invitational
Prior to Stanford
- Joined with three other Stanford recruits to run the fastest 4xMile in high school and U.S. U20 history
- The time of 19:30.12 came at the Illinois Meet of Champions in March 2022
- 18th at the 2021 Eastbay Cross Country Nationals
- Fifth at the 2022 Eastbay Midwest Cross Country Regionals
- 2022 Illinois state cross country champ and 2A section champ
- Undefeated in Illinois cross country as a junior and senior
- A two-time Illinois 2A state champ in cross country and a two-time 2A state champ in the 3,200
- She ran 10:18.77 for sixth in the two-mile at the Brooks PR Invitational in 2021
- Ran 10:15.96 for two miles for the No. 4 indoor time in the country in 2021
- Won the 2021 adidas Indoor Nationals in the mile, in 4:47.17
- 2020 Gatorade Illinois Girls Cross Country Player of the Year
- 11th in the 1,500 at the 2022 Brooks PR Invite
- New Balance Outdoor Nationals freshman mile and two-mile champion in 2019
- School record holder in three track events and two cross-country distances
- The No. 13 recruit in the country for her class by MileSplit
Personal
- Interested in majoring in math or computer science
- Parents are Anu and Michelle Parekh
- Mom was a sprinter at Boston College
- Has a younger brother, Akili
- Played varsity basketball at The Latin School as a freshman and sophomore
- Was a competitive ski racer for 12 years
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023-24 | Cross Country (4) | 6K | 20:21.4 | 32 (20:21.4) | -- | -- |
| 5K | 17:07.6 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2022-23 | Outdoors (6) | 5,000 | 16:27.03 | 28 (17:36.11) | -- | -- |
| 1,500 | 4:34.02 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Steeple | 10:55.79 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (5) | 3,000 | 9:30.69 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Mile | 4:52.43 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 11:29.76 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (5) | 6K | 20:03.1 | 28 (20:03.1) | 54 (20:22.6) | -- |