Vanessa Fraser Season 2018-19

TFRRS Performance Profile

* Seven-time All-American *

Personal Bests (thru 2017):

• 5,000: 15:20.10
• 3,000: 8:59.23i
• 1,500: 4:09.59
• Mile: 4:35.88i
• 10,000: 33:10.84

As a graduate student (2017-18):
Outdoor

• First-team All-America (5,000).
• Fourth in NCAA 5,000.
• Fifth in U.S. Championships 5,000.
• Pac-12 10,000 champion.
• Broke Big Meet 3,000 record.
• Broke Cardinal Classic 1,500 record.
• Moved to No. 5 on Stanford's all-time list in the 1,500.
• Moved to No. 3 on Stanford's all-time list in the 5,000.
• Moved to No. 4 on Stanford's all-time list in the 10,000.
• Pac-12 All-Academic second team.

Indoor

• First-team All-America (3,000).
• First-team All-America (DMR).
• Fourth in NCAA 3,000.
• Second in NCAA distance medley relay.
• Broke school distance medley relay record.
• No. 5 DMR time in collegiate history.
• Fastest second-place DMR time in NCAA Championships history.
• Moved to No. 3 on Stanford's all-time list in the mile.
• Moved to No. 3 on Stanford's all-time list in the 3,000.
• Moved to No. 3 on Stanford's all-time list in the 5,000.

Cross country

• Earned her seventh All-America honor by placing 27th at the NCAA Championships.
• Was No. 2 runner for Stanford, which placed fourth as a team.
• Stanford's No. 1 at Pac-12 Championships, placing fourth.
• All-West Region selection.
• All-Pac-12 first team.
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.

As a senior (2016-17):
Outdoors

• Seventh in 5,000 at U.S. Championships in a personal best 15:25.48.
• Was the second collegian in the U.S. final.
• Set PB by nearly 16 seconds, running 15:25.83 to place ninth in top section of Payton Jordan Invitational.
• Set PB in 1,500 by nearly four seconds of 4:15.90 to win second section of Cardinal Classic.
• Redshirted, but ran three races unattached.

Indoors

• Earned first-team All-America honors in both the 3,000 and the distance medley relay at the NCAA Championships.
• Ran to her first first-team All-America honor in an individual event by placing fifth in the 3,000.
• Fraser ran 9:10.92, and took the lead for four laps, until overtaken with one lap to go.
• Ran lead off on Stanford's runner-up DMR at NCAA's.
• Ran a 3:25.85 split over 1,200, putting the Cardinal in sixth at the first exchange.
• Set personal best by five seconds in the 3,000, running 9:04.78 to place third at the Husky Classic.
• Running the first relay leg of her collegiate career, ran leadoff leg in MPSF runner-up DMR with a 3:22.2 split for 1,200.
• Team ran 10:59.52 for the No. 6 time in Stanford history.
• Broke her indoor 5,000 best by nearly 10 seconds to win the UW Invitational in 15:56.89.
• Set her mile personal best with a 4:42.27 to place fourth at the UW Indoor Preview.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic selection.
• MPSF All-Academic selection.

Cross country

• No. 3 runner on fifth-place team at NCAA Championships.
• All-West Region selection
• All-Pac-12 second team
• Won the season-opening USF Invitational
• Stanford's No. 1 at Pre-Nationals, Pac-12's, and West Regionals

As a junior (2015-16):
Outdoors

• Second-team All-America (5,000).
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
• Big Meet 3,000 winner.
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team.
• Jumped to No. 10 on Stanford all-time performers' lists in the 5,000 and 10,000.

Indoors

• Tenth at the NCAA Championships in the 3,000, running 9:15.09.
• Reached her first NCAA indoor championship meet.
• Highest personal placing a national meet.
• Her 9:09.89 to finish fourth in the MPSF Championships was her second personal best in as many races.
• Ran the 5,000 at the Iowa State Classic, finishing sixth in 16:06.25, in an indoor personal best.

Cross country

•     Placed 40th at NCAA Championships to earn her first cross-country All-America honor.
•     Was team's No. 1 runner in 20:27.7 over 6K.
•     All-Pac-12 second team.
•     USTFCCCA All-Academic team.
•     Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
•     12th at Pac-12 Championships (6K, 20:23.5), as team's No. 2.
•     Placed 39th at NCAA West Regionals (6K, 21:26.2).

As a sophomore (2014-15):   
Outdoors

• Earned first All-America honor by placing 13th at the NCAA Championships in the 5,000 (16:10.20).
• Broke 16 minutes for the first time at Payton Jordan, with a personal best 15:54.12.
• Captured Big Meet in the 3,000 (9:25.04).
• Set 10,000 PB while placing fifth at Pac-12's (34:07.00).
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team.

Indoors

• Set personal records in each of her three races during the season.
• Placed second in the 3,000 at the MPSF Championships, running a personal best 9:16.94.
• Opened with a PB 9:24.87 for third at the UW Indoor Preview.
• Set a 5,000 PB of 16:20.30 to place third at the Husky Classic.

Cross country

•     Former walk-on was Stanford's No. 4 runner at the NCAA Championships.
•     Placed 149th overall (21:32.7, 6K) for 14th-place team in Terre Haute, Ind.
•     Competed in six races in her first collegiate season.
•     Placed 55th at the NCAA West Regional at Stanford Golf Course (21:27.1, 6K).
•     Helped Stanford to second at the Pac-12 Championships by placing 27th (20:56, 6K) as Stanford's No. 6 runner.
•     Named Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
•     Third at USF Invitational (18:02.4, 5K) in her collegiate cross-country debut.
•     26th at Stanford Invitational (21:45, 6k) to help the Cardinal to first place.
•     Finished first in the Wisconson Invitational (20:56, 6K) open race
•     27th at Pac-12 Championships (20:56, 6k), in which the Cardinal finished second.

As a freshman (2013-14):
Outdoors

• Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 5,000, finishing 21st overall in 16:39.19.
• Placed 13th in the Pac-12 Championships (16:51.62).
• Ran personal 5,000 best of 16:22.64 at the Payton Jordan Invitational.
• Fourth in 3,000 (9:32.42) at the Big Meet.
• Set PB of 4:30.05 in the 1,500 to place second at the Brutus Hamilton Open.

Indoors

• Did not compete.

Cross Country

•     Ran three races unattached.
•     Was No. 5 among all Stanford runners at the Stanford Invitational, and 13th overall (21:51, 6K).
•     Also placed 12th at the Bronco Invitational (20:47.7, 6K) and seventh at the Doc Adams Invite (21:37, 6K).

High School:

• A local product from the girls’ distance-running mecca of Santa Cruz County.
• Ninth at the 2013 California track championships in the 3,200 (10:31.50).
• A two-time state Division IV cross country champion.
• Led Falcons to their first two state cross-country appearances as a team, in 2011 and 2012.
• Clocked 16:59.87 in the 5,000 while placing sixth on the track at the 2012 New Balance Nationals.
• Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League cross country champion in 2010 and 2012.
• Central Coast Section Division IV champion in 2012 and runner-up in 2011.
• Four-time state qualifier in cross country and three-time 3,200 qualifier in track.
• Northern California 2010 Sophomore of the Year.

Personal:

• Parents are Jeff and Kathryn Fraser.
• Father is a Stanford graduate.
• Major is symbolic systems with a concentration on neuroscience.
• in 2011, helped bring a Girls on the Run chapter (for third through fifth grade) to Scotts Valley and helped prepare them for a 5K.
• Her participation in the program as a young girl helped inspire her to pursue running later on.

Career results: