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TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • All-American
  • Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2022, 2023)
  • Academic All-District (2023)
  • Five-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021; winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • 400 hurdles: 58.22
  • 400: 54.86i
  • 200: 24.66

As a Junior (2023)
Outdoors

  • Ran the fastest Stanford 400 hurdles time (58.22) since NCAA champ Kori Carter in 2013
  • The time placed her fourth in the Pac-12 and moved her to No. 2 at Stanford all-time
  • Big Meet winner in the 400 hurdles and 4x400
  • Won the Cardinal Classic and Payton Jordan meets in the 400 hurdles
  • Ran fastest 200s of 24.44w at the Stanford Invitational and 24.66 at the Mt. SAC Relays
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Academic All-District
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors 

  • Ran a season-best 400 of 54.86 at the Razorback Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Sophomore (2022)
Outdoors

  • Achieved personal best of 1:00.28 in the 400 hurdles in placing seventh at the Pac-12 Championships 
  • Big Meet 400 hurdles and 4x400 relay winner 
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic team
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • First-team indoor All-American (DMR)
  • Second in the DMR final at NCAA Indoors
  • Their NCAA time of 10:53.37 was the 11th-fastest indoor DMR in collegiate history
  • Ran the second leg (400) in the DMR
  • Moved to No. 2 in the DMR on Stanford's all-time indoor list 
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

As a Freshman (2021)
Outdoors

  • Big Meet 400 hurdles winner in PB of 1:01.20
  • Broke her 400 hurdles PB three times during season
  • Also won the Hornet and Stanford invitationals in the 400 hurdles
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Raced in the 400 and mile relay at the Championships at the Peak at Air Force
  • Winning mile relay team ran 3:49.34

Prior to Stanford

  • Won the Ohio state Division I indoor title in the 400, with a personal best 56.11 on March 7, 2020, just before the track season was shut down
  • Became the first female runner from her school to win a state title
  • Was the 2018 USATF Youth Outdoor champion in the 400 hurdles
  • Took eighth in the event at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals in 2018
  • Broke the school record in the 300 hurdles at 44.18 as a sophomore
  • Placed second in both hurdles races at the 2018 Southwestern Conference championships
  • Third in the 2018 Ohio Division I state meet in the 400

Personal

  • Mother, Deborah, was sprinter/hurdler at Case Western
  • Deborah won USATF masters titles in the 400, 400 hurdles, and outdoor pentathlon

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023Outdoors (8)400 H58.224 (58.22)20 (58.98)--
40054.94------
20024.66------
4x4003:33.71------
Indoors (5)40054.86------
20024.70------
4x4003:41.92------
2022Outdoors (6)400 H1:00.287 (1:00.28)----
10012.52------
4x4003:42.508 (3:42.50)----
Indoors (5)40055.90------
20025.19------
DMR10:53.37----2 (10:53.37)
4x4003:50.97------
2021Outdoors (6)400 H1:01.2013 (1:01.30)----
4x4003:46.7010 (3:48.70)----
Indoors (1)40058.18------
4x440y3:49.34------