TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Two-time NCAA indoor champion (2023)
- NCAA indoor 800 champion (2023)
- NCAA indoor distance medley relay champion (2023)
- Seven-time All-American
- Pac-12 800 champion (2024)
- West Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year (2023)
- School-record holder: indoor 800, 4x400, DMR; outdoor DMR
- Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
- World under-20 800 champion (2022)
- Two-time world U20 gold medalist (800, 4x400)
- World U20 Championships 800 record-holder
- National high school indoor record-holder (800)
- USATF Youth Athlete of the Year (2022)
- NCAA West Region XC team champions (2022)
- Academic All-American (2024)
- Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2023, 2024)
- Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (T&F winter 2024; spring 2023, 2024)
As a Sophomore (2023-24)
Outdoors
- NCAA 800 runner-up
- First-team All-American in 800
- First 1-2 team finish in NCAA women's outdoor 800 since 1993
- Her NCAA time of 2:00.17 placed her No. 3 in Stanford outdoor history
- Won Pac-12 championship in the 800
- Two-time outdoor All-American
- Earned second-team All-America honors by running second leg on 15th-place 4x400 team at NCAA's
- Won Big Meet dual vs. Cal in the 400 (53.55)
- Won Payton Jordan Invite 800
- Won Stanford Invite 400
- First-team Academic All-American
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Second-team All-American
- Placed 10th overall in NCAA 800, reaching the semifinals
- Ran the third leg on school-record distance medley relay team (10:47.03) at the Terrier DMR Challenge
- Won the UW Indoor Preview 400
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Cross Country * West Region Champions
- Did not compete
As a Freshman (2022-23)
Outdoors
- First-team All-American
- Placed fourth in the 800 at the NCAA Championships
- Ran season-best 800 of 2:00.23 in the first round of the U.S. Championships
- The time placed her No. 2 in Stanford outdoor history
- Ran third leg on Penn Relays-winning distance medley relay that ran school outdoor 10:50.56
- Established lifetime best in the 1,500 of 4:13.31 at the Mt. SAC Relays
- Moved to No. 4 in the 400 and No. 3 in the 1,500 on school's all-time freshman list
- Big Meet 4x400 winner
- Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Two-time NCAA champion
- Won the 800 at the NCAA Championships in 1:59.53, a Stanford absolute record
- The time was the No. 2 performance and made her the No. 2 performer in indoor collegiate history
- Ran the third leg in 2:02.75 for 800 to help Card win the distance medley relay at the NCAA Championships
- USTFCCCA West Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
- Helped Stanford break the school record in the DMR, running 10:49.30 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
- The time was No. 6 in all conditions in collegiate indoor history
- Anchored Card to school indoor record in the 4x400, running 3:31.71 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
Cross Country * West Region Champions
- Made collegiate debut at the Bronco Invitational, placing 36th
International/National
- Won the 800 in a World Under-20 Championships record 1:59.13
- Anchored the U.S. to gold in the 4x400 relay at the World U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia
- Reached the 800 semifinals at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, placing 17th overall
- Second at the 2022 U.S. U20 Championships in the 800
- Advanced to the 800 semifinals at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, placing 13th overall
- 2022 USATF Youth Athlete of the Year
Prior to Stanford
- Two-time 2022 World U20 gold medalist
- Named 2021-22 Gatorade National Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
- Set the national high school indoor 800 record of 2:00.06 in Boston on Feb. 11, 2022
- No. 2 on the all-time high school 800 performers’ list in 1:59.13
- No. 4 on U.S. U20 performers’ 800 absolute list
- Holds Wisconsin state records in the 400, 800, and 1,600 (4:41.46)
- Four-time Gatorade Wisconsin Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
- Won Nike Outdoor Nationals in the 400 in 52.64, the fifth-fastest among high schools in 2022
- Second at the 2022 U.S. U20 Championships in the 800
- Joined Olympians Heather MacLean, Kendall Ellis and Elle Purrier St. Pierre on a distance medley relay quartet that set a world record at the opening of The Track at New Balance in Boston
- Joined future Stanford teammate Juliette Whittaker in setting a world indoor U20 record in the 4x800
- Joined Whittaker on a DMR team that ran the fastest U20 time in indoor history
- Second in the Brooks PR Invite 400 in 2021 and 2022, the latter in a PB 52.64
- Won 2022 Wisconsin state 800 title, and the 2019 state title in the 4x400
- No. 4 recruit in the country for her class by MileSplit
- Ran 2:00.78 as a junior, a U.S. under-18 record
- Her 2:41.53 in the indoor 1,000, is No. 2 all-time among high school runners
- Called, by her high school coach, “the greatest prep track athlete in Wisconsin history.”
Personal
- Parents are Lee and Breeda Willis
- Mother ran the 5,000 and 10,000 for Ireland at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
- Volunteered as part of a pen pal program with elementary school students and children with special needs
- An accomplished violin player
- Donated her time with the Uplift Foundation, an organization that raises money for women and children in crisis throughout the country
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023-24 | Outdoors (7) | 800 | 2:00.17 | 1 (2:01.00) | 1 (2:01.04) | 2 (2:00.17) |
| 400 | 53.55 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:31.66 | 6 (3:32.57) | 9 (3:32.51) | 15 (3:31.66) | ||
| Indoors (5) | 800 | 2:01.99 | -- | -- | 10 (2:03.64) | |
| 400 | 53.56 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 10:47.03 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:31.97 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2022-23 | Outdoors (7) | 800 | 2:00.23 | -- | 1 (2:02.51) | 4 (2:00.91) |
| 1,500 | 4:13.31 | 11 (4:27.65) | -- | -- | ||
| 400 | 53.41 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:29.43 | -- | 7 (3:29.43) | -- | ||
| DMR | 10:50.56 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (6) | 800 | 1:59.93 | -- | -- | 1 (1:59.93) | |
| 400 | 53.65 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:31.71 | -- | -- | 12 (3:32.80) | ||
| DMR | 10:49.30 | -- | -- | 1 (10:49.30) | ||
| Cross Country (1) | 6K | 20:59.6 | -- | -- | -- |