TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- NCAA distance medley relay champion (2023)
- Two-time All-American
- Stanford record-holder: indoor and outdoor distance medley relay
- NCAA West Region team XC champions (2022)
- Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic team (T&F 2022, 2023)
- Academic All-District (2023)
- Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (winter 2023, spring 2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
- 1,500: 4:09.66
- 800: 2:04.51
- 400: 56.22
- Mile: 4:37.21i
- 3,000: 9:24.31
As a Second-Year Graduate Student (2022-23)
Outdoors
- Led off Stanford's DMR that won the Penn Relays in school-record time
- Tied for No. 4 in the 1,500 on Stanford's all-time list
- Ran lifetime best of 4:09.66 at the Under Armour Sunset Tour in Los Angeles
- Second in the Pac-12 in a then-PB of 4:09.85
- Big Meet 800 winner in personal best 2:04.51
- Advanced to NCAA West Prelims in 1,500
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Academic All-District
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- NCAA distance medley relay champion
- Ran leadoff leg in 3:23.02 to put Stanford in front for good in NCAA race
- First-team All-American in the DMR
- Leadoff leg on school-record-breaking DMR that ran 10:49.30
- It was the No. 6 indoor women’s DMR performance under all-conditions in collegiate history
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Cross Country * West Region Champions
- Placed 33rd at the Pac-12 Championships
- Second in the 'B' race at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational
As a Graduate Student (2021-22)
Outdoors
- Second-team All-American
- Placed 12th in the 1,500 in the NCAA Championships final
- Set 1,500 PB of 4:14.43 to squeeze in to the last qualifying spot for the NCAA final
- Placed 11th overall in the 1,500 at the NCAA West Prelims to advance
- Fifth in the 1,500 at the Pac-12 Championships, in a personal best 4:17.31
- Made Stanford debut at the Cardinal Classic, placing fourth in the 1,500 (4:29.64)
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
Indoors
- Did not compete
Cross Country
- Did not compete
Prior to Stanford
- While competing for University of Pennsylvania, advanced to the NCAA East Prelims in the 800 in 2019, placing 40th overall
- Helped Penn's distance medley relay team to victory Championship of America Invitational of the Penn Relays in an Ivy League record 10:59.44.
- Third in the 2019 Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal 800 in 2:07.18, and first in the 4x800
- Ran 800 lifetime best of 2:05.91 indoors at the 2020 David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston Univ.
- In 2021, competed in three events, winning the Penn Twilight in a 1,500 PB of 4:19.64
- Won four Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal championships – in the 800 and 4x800m in 2020, and 800 and 4x880y in 2019
- Helped Penn to sixth at the 2019 NCAA Mid-Atlantic cross country regionals, placing 26th.
- At Long Beach Poly High School, placed eighth in the 800 at the 2017 California state championships
- Took second in the 800 at the 2017 CIF-Southern Section Masters Meet and CIF-SS Division I championships
Personal
- Parents are Melanie and Donald Tanaka
- Father wrestled at Western Illinois
Stanford Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2022-23 | Outdoors (8) | 1,500 | 4:09.66 | 2 (4:09.85) | 15 (4:13.46) | -- |
| 800 | 2:04.51 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:49.10 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 10:50.56 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (5) | Mile | 4:37.21 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 800 | 2:05.61 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 3,000 | 9:24.31 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:58.22 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 10:49.30 | -- | -- | 1 (10:56.34) | ||
| Cross Country (4) | 6K | 20:10.3 | 33 (20:10.3) | -- | -- | |
| 2021-22 | Outdoors (7) | 1,500 | 4:14.43 | 5 (4:17.31) | 11 (4:20.04) | 12 (4:21.28) |
| 800 | 2:09.33 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |