Imogen Gardiner, Tori Starcher_SG_03292024_134

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

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

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • 1,500: 4:20.34
  • Mile: 4:39.23
  • 1,000: 2:49.42
  • 800: 2:09.08
  • 3,000: 9:36.36
  • 5,000: 16:38.44

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

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Sophomore (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Raced once, in the 1,500 at the Mt. SAC Relays
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Raced four times, twice each in the mile and 3,000
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • Made collegiate cross country debut at the USF Invitational

As a Freshman (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Made collegiate debut at the Razorback Invitational, running the 3,000

Cross Country

  • Did not compete

Prior to Stanford

  • Won the 2021 Australian under-20 titles in the 3,000 and 5,000, and was third in the 1,500
  • Ran 4:39.23 to place third against mostly university competitors in the Albie Thomas Mile in Georges Hall, Australia, on Dec. 19, 2020
  • From December 2019-February 2020, won the 1,500 at the Australia and Oceania under-18 championship meets, and swept the 1,500 and 3,000 at the Australian All-Schools Championships
  • Capped that stretch with a big 1,500 personal best at the Sydney Track Classic, running 4:20.34
  • That time placed her No. 56 in the world for the 1,500 for under-20 for 2021
  • Won 1,500 at the 2021 Athletics ACT Championships at the Australian Institute of Sport in 4:20.50
  • Won the 800 to help Australia to the team title at the 2017 International School Sports Federation Championships in Nancy, France
  • Australian 2019 All-Schools national champion in the 1,500
  • Second in the 1,500 at the 2019 ISF Championships in Split, Croatia
  • Won Oceania U18 1,500 championship in 2019 in a meet record

Personal

  • Parents are Dave and Zena Gardiner
  • Brothers are Alexander and George
  • Father was a decathlete at Cambridge (U.K.) University and was president of the Cambridge Athletics Club
  • Followed two-time NCAA javelin champ Mackenzie Little from Pymble Ladies' College to Stanford
  • Calculated that her home in Sydney is 29,845 laps of a track (7,418 miles) from Stanford 

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023-24Cross Country (1)6K22:31.2------
2022-23Outdoors (1)1,5004:40.29------
Indoors (4)Mile4:56.77------
3,0009:43.34------
Cross Country (3)6K20:54.4------
2021-22Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (2)3,0009:55.78------
Cross Country (0)----------
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2021
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2022
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2024