Ella Donaghu Season 2019-20

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

• Seven-time All-American
• Two-time USTFCCCA XC Women's Athlete of the Week (2020-21)
• West Region XC champion (2019)
• Two-time USTFCCCA West Region Women's XC Athlete of the Year (2019, 2020-21)
• XC Three-time All-West Region (2016, 2017, 2019)
• Two-time Pac-12 XC team champions (2019, 2020-21)
• Pac-12 1,500 champion (2021)
• MPSF mile champion (2020)
• Two-time XC All-Pac-12 first team (2019, 2020-21)
• Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Junior award (2020)
• CoSIDA T&F/XC Academic All-America third team (2019-20)
• Five-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2019, 2020-21; T&F 2019, 2020, 2021)
• XC/T&F Academic All-District 8 first team (2020)
• Pac-12 XC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2020-21)
• Three-time MPSF All-Academic (2018-2020)
• Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (T&F 2021)
• T&F Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (2019)
• XC Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (2017)

Personal Bests (thru 2021 outdoors)

• 1,500: 4:09.66
• 5,000: 15:29.42
• 800: 2:04.42
• 3,000 steeplechase: 10:26.99
• Mile: 4:33.71i
• 3,000: 8:54.72i
• 1,000: 2:52.48i

As a Fifth-Year Senior (2020-21)
Outdoors

• Won the Pac-12 1,500 title, running 4:15.43 at USC
• First-team All-American in the 1,500, placing third at the NCAA Championships
• Second-team All-American in the 5,000, placing 12th at NCAA's
• Qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 1,500 and advanced to the semifinals
• Ended season at No. 4 on Stanford all-time list in the 1,500 and No. 9 in the Pac-12 all-time
• Moved to No. 8 on Stanford all-time list in the 5,000
• Moved to No. 9 on Stanford all-time list in the 800, placing third at the Pac-12 Championships
• Established personal bests in the 800, 1,500, and 5,000
• Only runner to appear in Stanford's top-10 performers' list in the 800, 1,500, steeplechase, and 5,000
• Pac-12 Women's Track Athlete of the Week (May 5)
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors 

• Did not compete

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

• Second consecutive All-America honor
• Tenth at NCAA Championships while leading Stanford to third-place finish
• Became first Stanford multiple top-10 NCAA placer since Arianna Lambie (2005-07)
• Pac-12 runner-up while leading Cardinal to second consecutive team title
• Won Florida State Winter Classic and UNLV Battle Born Challenge
• Twice named USTFCCCA Athlete of the Week, after each victory
• Pac-12 Women's XC Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• All-Pac-12 first team after second consecutive runner-up finish

As a Senior (2019-20)
Outdoors

• Season canceled
• CoSIDA T&F/XC Academic All-America third team (2019-20)
• XC/T&F Academic All-District 8 first team
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Junior award (2020)

Indoors

• Advanced to the NCAA Championships as the No. 4 qualifier in the 3,000 and as part of the No. 2 seeded distance medley relay team
• Broke the Stanford indoor mile record for a regulation (200-meter track), running 4:33.71 to win the Razorback Invitational, a mile PB by eight seconds
• Earned her first conference title, winning the MPSF mile 4:34.85
• Ran the opening leg of Stanford's winning DMR team at the Razorback Invitational
• The DMR team ran 10:55.89 to earn the No. 2 seed to the NCAA Championships
• The top collegian at the season-opening UW Preview 3,000, setting a PB by 26 seconds by running 8:58.31
• Her 3,000 PB of 8:54.72 was set at the Husky Classic
• It was the fastest indoor 3,000 by a Stanford runner in 37 years
• All-American (3,000, DMR)
• No. 3 Stanford all-time indoors (mile)
• No. 2 Stanford all-time indoors (3,000)
• No. 5 Stanford all-time indoors (DMR)
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

• All-American
• NCAA West Region champion
• USTFCCCA West Region Women's Athlete of the Year
• All-West Region
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Placed eighth at the NCAA Championships
• No. 1 runner on NCAA's third-place team
• Second at the Pac-12 Championships in a 1-2-3 Stanford sweep and conference team championship

As a Junior (2018-19)
Outdoors

• Sixth in NCAA 1,500
• First-team All-America (1.500)
• Established PB in 1,500 of 4:11.70 at NCAA West Prelims
• Moved to No. 7 on Stanford all-time 1,500 list
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
• USTFCCCA All-Academic

Indoors

• MPSF All-Academic
• 10th in MPSF mile

Cross Country

• Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2017-18)
Outdoors

• Big Meet steeplechase winner
• Made collegiate outdoor debut by running the steeplechase at the Stanford Invitational, placing eighth in second section
• Her time of 10:26.00 moved her to No. 10 on Stanford's all-time list

Indoors

• MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country

• All-West Region selection
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
• No. 5 runner on Stanford's fourth-place team at NCAA Championships
• Placed 20th as Stanford's No. 4 at NCAA West Regional

As a Freshman (2016-17)
Outdoors

• Did not compete

Indoors

• Ran a 4:42.81 indoor mile unattached at the UW Invitational, placing sixth

Cross Country

• All-West Region selection
• Made collegiate debut at the Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, placing 47th
• Ran No. 5 on Stanford's fifth-place team at NCAA Championships
• Was among three freshmen in team's top five at NCAA's

Prior to Stanford

• Ran 4:14.11 at the Portland Track Festival, placing her No. 7 on the all-time high school 1,500 performers' list while at Grant High.
• The time broke her own state high school record of 4:15.28, which she ran at Stanford's Payton Jordan Invitational on May 1, 2016, which broke her own previous record by five seconds
• Won three Oregon 6A 1,500 titles, two in the 800, and one each in the 3,000 and 4x400 relay
• Broke the Oregon state cross-country meet course record at Lane Community College by running 17:26
• Broke the state record in the 3,000 by running 9:24.86 (2014)
• 10-time state champion, including track and cross country
• Three-time Oregon 6A cross country champion
• Second at the 2015 Nike Cross Nationals, and 10th in 2014
• Two-time Nike BorderClash champion, pitting the best from Oregon and Washington

Career Results