Julia Heymach Season 2019-20

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

• Eight-time All-American
• Two-time XC All-West Region (2019, 2021)
• Two-time West Region XC team champions (2019, 2021)
• Two-time Pac-12 XC team champions (2019, 2020-21)
• USTFCCCA West Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year (2022)
• NCAA West Region XC individual champion (2021)
• USTFCCCA West Region Women's XC Athlete of the Year (2021)
• XC All-Pac-12 first team (2020-21)
• XC All-Pac-12 second team (2019)
• Pac-12 5,000 champion (2021)
• Pac-12 1,500 record-holder
• School 1,500 record-holder
• Seven-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022; XC 2019, 2020-21, 2021)
• Two-time MPSF All-Academic (2019, 2020)
• Five-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2019, 2021; T&F 2020, 2021, winter 2022)
• Four-time Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (2018 XC, 2019 T&F, winter 2022, spring 2022)

Personal Bests (thru 2022)

• 1,500: 4:04.84
• 800: 2:02.91
• 5,000: 15:33.62
• Mile: 4:31.35i
• 3,000: 8:59.69i
• 1,000: 2:45.36i

As a Fifth-Year Senior (2021-22)
Outdoors

• First-team All-American
• Placed fifth at the NCAA Championships in the 1,500 (4:10.58)
• Competed in the 1,500 at the U.S. Championships, but did not advance
• NCAA West Prelims winner in the 1,500, running 4:16.34
• Pac-12 runner-up in the 800, running 2:03.81
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• Two-time first-team All-American
• Anchored Stanford's distance medley relay to second at the NCAA Championships
• Ran 4:33.07 anchor split for 1,600 for a final time of 10:53.37, the second-fastest time in Stanford history and 11th-fastest in collegiate history
• Seventh in the mile at the NCAA Championships with a time of 4:37.28
• Broke the Stanford indoor mile record for a 200-meter track (4:31.35) at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational
• Second in the 3,000 (8:59.69) at the Pac-12 Invitational
• USTFCCCA West Region Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year (2022)
• Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country • West Region Champions

• All-American
• NCAA West Regional champion
• USTFCCCA West Region Women's Athlete of the Year
• All-West Region
• Made season debut at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 25th
• Team's No. 1 runner at NCAA Championships, placing 13th and helping Card to sixth
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

As a Senior (2020-21)
Outdoors

• Sixth at Olympic Trials in the 1,500 final
• Broke school 1,500 record by more than four seconds with a time of 4:04.84
• Time was fourth-fastest in collegiate history, including non-collegiate meets
• The time also was a Pac-12 record and was a 12-second improvement on her PB going into the season
• First current Stanford runner in Olympic Trials 1,500 final since 1984
• First-team All-American in the 5,000
• Sixth in the 5,000 at the NCAA Championships
• Pac-12 champion in the 5,000 in first track attempt at that distance
• Moved to No. 5 on Stanford all-time list in the 800
• Second in the 800 at the Pac-12 Championships in PB of 2:02.91
• NCAA West Prelims double winner in 1,500 and 5,000
• First current Stanford athlete to reach the Olympic Trials final in the women's 1,500 since 1984
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• Did not compete

Cross Country • Pac-12 Champions

• All-American
• Placed 13th at NCAA Championships
• No. 2 runner for NCAA third-place team
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• All-Pac-12 first team
• Placed fourth at Pac-12 Championships, helping Card to repeat title

As a Junior (2019-20)
Outdoors

• Season canceled
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• Double All-American (mile, DMR)
• Qualified for the NCAA Championships as the No. 3 seed in the mile and as part of the No. 2-seeded distance medley relay team
• Time of 4:33.37 at the Husky Classic placed her No. 2 on Stanford's all-time indoor list
• The time was a PB by nearly seven seconds
• Set an 800 PB of 2:04.94 to place second at the Razorback Invitational
• The time placed her No. 4 in Stanford history
• Ran the third leg (800) on DMR team that ran 10:55.89, the No. 5 time in school history
• Her 2:45.36 runner-up time at the UW Preview placed her at No. 5 on the 1,000 Stanford all-time list
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country • West Region Champions • Pac-12 Champions

• All-West Region
• All-Pac-12 second team
• Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• No. 5 runner on Pac-12 championship team
• No. 5 runner on third-place team at NCAA Championships

As a Sophomore (2018-19)
Outdoors

• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
• Ran huge 1,500 PB of 4:17.74 at Payton Jordan Invitational
• Sixth at Pac-12 Championships in the 1,500
• USTFCCCA All-Academic

Indoors

• Ran mile PB of 4:40.94 at the Husky Classic
• MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country

• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
• Stanford's No. 4 runner at the Pac-12, NCAA West Region, and NCAA championship meets

As a Freshman (2017-18)
Outdoors

• Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 1,500, placing 27th
• Reached the Pac-12 800 final, placing ninth
• Ran personal 1,500 record of 4:21.80 at the Payton Jordan Invitational
• Made collegiate outdoor debut at the Stanford Invitational, running the 800 and 1,500

Indoors

• Made collegiate track debut with a 4:49.25 mile at the UW Invitational
• Ran the first leg (1,200) of the fifth-place DMR at the MPSF Championships

Cross Country

• Made collegiate debut at the Dellinger Invitational, placing 52nd and No. 8 for her team
• Raced at the Wisconsin Invitational, placing 137th and was No. 7 on team

National/International Competition

• Sixth in the 2021 Olympic Trials in the 1,500, running a Stanford record 4:04.84
• Raced in the 2022 U.S. Championships in the 1,500, but did not advance 
• Ran for the U.S. at the 2015 World Youth Championships, placing eighth in the 1,500 in Cali, Colombia.
• Won the 2015 U.S. World Youth Trials in 4:21.78.

Prior to Stanford

• Texas 6A record holder in the 1,600, running 4:40.97 to win the state title in 2015, and won 3,200 in PB of 10:14.62 while at Lamar High School.
• Nearly pulled off a state title triple in 2017, winning the 800 and 3,200 and placing second in the 1,600 in the first year runners were allowed to compete in more than two distance events
• Seven-time state champion in the highest public school classification in Texas
• Two-time Foot Locker national cross country finalist, placing 16th in 2016
• Won two 6A state titles each in the 1,600, 3,200, and in cross country
• Placed third at the 2015 Brooks PR meet with a 2:05.64 in the 800, the No. 7 prep time in the country that year
• In 2016, won the 1,600 at the Texas Meet of Champions (4:44.86)
• Ran a 4:45.14 mile at the Nike Elite Camp -- the No. 10 time in the country
• A top-three state cross country finisher all four years of high school

Personal

• Co-terming with a major of economics and master's in management science and engineering with a concentration of computational social sciences.
• Parents are John and Marisa Heymach
• Older sister Claudia attended Stanford
• Has three younger siblings: Jack, Amelia, and Malcolm
• Played clarinet in the Houston Youth Symphony
• Volunteered at the Houston Humane Society

Career Results