Lucy Jenks Season 2023-24
PositionDISTANCE
ClassJunior
HometownNewton, Mass.
TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Two-time outdoor second-team All-American (5,000)
- Three-time West Region XC team champions (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Pac-12 XC team champions (2020-21)
- Three-time All-West Region XC (2021, 2022, 2023)
- First-Team All-Pac-12 XC (2023)
- Five-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2021, 2022, 2023; track 2022, 2023)
- Academic All-District (2023)
- Seven-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2021, 2023; T&F 2021; winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
- 5,000: 15:33.13
- 3,000: 9:04.29i
- 1,500: 4:14.81
- Mile: 4:40.41i
- 1,000: 2:48.97
As a Senior (2023-24
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions
- All-West Region
- All-Pac-12 first team
- Fifth at Pac-12 for career-best conference XC finish
- Team's No. 2 runner most of season; No. 1 at West Regionals
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Junior (2022-23)
Outdoors
- Second-team All-American in the 5,000
- Placed 14th in the 5,000 at the NCAA Championships
- Ran 5,000 PB of 15:33.13 to place third in the Stanford Invitational
- Broke 1,500 PB with a 4:14.81 for fifth in the invitational at Mt. SAC Relays
- Earned her highest Pac-12 finish with a third in the 5,000
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Academic All-District
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Ran the 5,000 in 15:42.58 at the Colyear-Danville Opener
- The time placed her No. 5 all-time indoors at Stanford
- Ran mile PB of 4:40.41 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions
- All-West Region
- Team's No. 2 in five of her six races
- 15th at NCAA West Regionals
- 83rd at the NCAA Championships
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
As a Sophomore (2021-22)
Outdoors
- Second-team All-American
- Placed 15 in the 5,000 at the NCAA Championships
- Advanced to her first NCAA Championships, placing 10th overall at the NCAA West Prelims in 16:15.64
- Ran lifetime best 5,000 of 15:41.13 at the Stanford Invite, placing seventh
- At the Pac-12 Championships, placed seventh in the 1,500 and eighth in the 5,000
- Fourth at the Mt. SAC Relays in the 1,500 in 4:18.85
- Double winner at the Big Meet vs. Cal, winning the 1,500 and 3,000
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Led off the 7th-fastest distance medley relay in school history (10:57.74), as team placed third in the Pac-12 Invitational
- Clocked lifetime best in the 3,000 of 9:04.29, ranking her No. 31 in NCAA Division I
- Ran mile PB of 4:44.26 at the Razorback Invite, placing fifth
- Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions
- All-West Region
- Placed eighth to help Card to NCAA West Regional team title
- Team's No. 2 at NCAA Championships, helping Card to sixth-place finish
- Stanford's No. 1 at Florida State Open, placing 27th
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Freshman (2020-21)
Outdoors
- Advanced to NCAA West Prelims in 1,500 and 5,000
- Ran 1,500 PB of 4:17.22 in placing fifth at Pac-12 Championships
- Moved to No. 4 in the 1,500 on Stanford freshman list
- Moved to No. 5 in the 5,000 on Stanford freshman list
- Big Meet 1,500 winner
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Did not compete
Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions
- Stanford's No. 5 runner on third-place NCAA Championships team
- Placed 17th at the Pac-12 Championships to help Cardinal to team title
- Made collegiate debut by finishing third in the 'B' race at the Florida State Winter Classic
Prior to Stanford
- Won indoor and outdoor Massachusetts All-State mile championships
- Played Elite Clubs National League soccer
- Switched to running full time as a senior at Newton (Mass.) South High School
- The fall of 2019 was her first cross country season
- Though out five weeks with injury during her first XC season, won the 2019 state cross country title in only her third race
- Fifth in the 2029 NXN Northeast Regional
- Was the 2019 Massachusetts Division I and All-State mile champion in her only outdoor track season
- Personal best of 4:45.93 in the mile placed her fifth at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in 2019
Personal
- Parents are Bill Jenks and Julie Mallatt
- Has two siblings, Sally and Boomer
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023-24 | Cross Country (5) | 6K | 19:30.0 | 5 (19:30.0) | 11 (19:42.7) | 93 (20:38.4) |
| 5K | 16:46.6 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2022-23 | Outdoors (7) | 5,000 | 15:33.13 | 3 (16:14.68) | 6 (15:38.35) | 14 (16:08.16) |
| 1,500 | 4:14.81 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 3,000 | 9:39.79 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (5) | 5,000 | 15:42.58 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 3,000 | 9:08.36 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Mile | 4:40.41 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 11:10.89 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:58.22 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (6) | 6K | 19:42.0 | 20 (19:54.0) | 15 (19:42.0) | 83 (20:30.5) | |
| 2021-22 | Outdoors (6) | 5,000 | 15:41.13 | 8 (16:17.12) | 10 (16:15.64) | 15 (15:55.19) |
| 1,500 | 4:18.34 | 7 (4:18.34) | -- | -- | ||
| 3,000 | 9:37.64 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (4) | 3,000 | 9:04.29 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Mile | 4:44.26 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 10:57.74 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (6) | 6K | 20:04.1 | 53 (22:28.1) | 8 (20:10.7) | 49 (20:04.1) | |
| 2020-21 | Outdoors (6) | 1,500 | 4:17.22 | 5 (4:17.22) | 18 (4:18.13) | -- |
| 5,000 | 15:55.33 | 8 (15:55.53) | 23 (16:30.40) | -- | ||
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cross Country (4) | 6K | 20:02.6 | 17 (20:02.6) | -- | 92 (21:28.0) |