Sophia Kennedy_SL_083024_034

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • Two-time All-West Region XC (2019, 2022)
  • Two-time Pac-12 team XC champion (2019, 2020-21)
  • Two-time NCAA West Region team champion (2022, 2023)
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2022)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2023)

Personal Records (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • Mile: 4:55.36i
  • 3,000: 9:22.49i
  • 5,000: 16:21.48i

As a Graduate Student (2023-24)
Cross Country 
West Region Champions

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Raced in her third NCAA Championships
  • Equaled best Pac-12 finish

As a Senior (2022-23) 
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • All-West Region
  • Placed 25th at NCAA West Regional
  • Stanford's No. 6 runner at NCAA Championships
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic

As a Junior (2021-22)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country

  • Did not compete

As a Sophomore (2020-21)
Outdoors

  • Did not compete

Indoors

  • Did not compete

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

  • Raced twice for Cardinal
  • Placed 112th at the Florida State Winter Classic and was fourth in the B race at the UNLV Battle Born Challenge

As a Freshman (2019-20)
Outdoors

  • Season canceled

Indoors

  • Placed fourth in the 5,000 at the MPSF Championships, in her first track race at that distance
  • Ran 3,000 personal best of 9:22.69 at the Husky Classic

Cross Country * Pac-12 Champions

  • USTFCCCA All-West Region
  • No. 4 Stanford runner at the NCAA Championships
  • Helped Stanford to third in NCAA as a team
  • Was the only freshman in Stanford's NCAA lineup
  • No. 6 runner on Stanford's Pac-12 championship team
  • 19th in NCAA West Region championships

Prior to Stanford:

  • Nine-time Arizona state champion at Chaparral High School
  • 2018 Gatorade Arizona Cross Country Runner of the Year
  • Won three consecutive state cross country championships: 2018 in Division I and 2016 and 2017 in Division II
  • Placed third in the 2018 Nike Cross Nationals Southwest regional and 10th in the NXN final
  • Won the 1,600 and 3,200 meters at three consecutive Arizona state championship meets: 2019 in Division I and 2017 and 2018 in Division II
  • Ran 3,200 PB of 8:21.21 at the 2019 Arcadia Invitational
  • State champion in lacrosse at Chaparral High

Personal:

  • Daughter of Tom and Gail Archer
  • Has an older sibling, Ali
  • Anticipates a career as a biomedical engineer
  • Was president of Circle the City Club, which worked to gather donations for a nonprofit respite center in Phoenix to provide healthcare to the homeless and work towards reintegration of homeless individuals into society

Career Results:

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023-24Cross Country (6)5K17:56.5------
6K20:07.326 (20:07.3)29 (20:19.5)208 (21:40.1)
2022-23Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (5)6K19:54.7--25 (19:54.7)206 (21:25.1)
2021-22Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (0)----------
2020-21Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (0)----------
Cross Country (2)6K21:14.2------
2019-20Outdoors (0)----------
Indoors (4)5,00016:21.484 (16:21.48):----
3,0009:22.49------
Mile4:55.36------
Cross Country (4)6K20:26.226 (20:28.6)19 (20:26.6)53 (20:58.7)
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2021-22
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2022-23
Distance
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2023-24
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