Christina Aragon Season 2021-22

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

• Nine-time All-American
• CoSIDA Academic All-American first team (2022)
• West Region XC champions (2019, 2021)
• Three-time All-West Region XC (2016, 2017, 2021)
• Two-time Pac-12 team XC champions (2019, 2020-21)
• Two-time All-Pac-12 second team XC (2016, 2020-21)
• Six-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2018, 2020-21, 2021; T&F 2020, 2021, 2022)
• CoSIDA District 8 All-Academic (2022)
• Pac-12 Women's XC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2021) 
• Two-time MPSF All-Academic (2017, 2019)
• Six-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2019, 2021; T&F 2020, 2021, winter 2022, spring 2022)
• Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic XC honorable mention (2017, 2018)

Personal Records (thru 2022)

• 1,500: 4:08.71
• Mile: 4:34.76i
• 800: 2:03.64
• 3,000: 9:01.86i
• 400: 55.87

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

• First-team All-American
• Third at NCAA Championships in the 1,500, her highest individual career NCAA finish
• Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 1,500 for the fourth time
• Competed at the U.S. Championships, but did not advance
• Ran 800 PB of 2:03.64 at the Sound Running Sunset Tour meet No. 3. 
• Second in the Pac-12 in the 1,500 (4:14.89)
• Ran a season 1,500 best of 4:12.82, placing eighth at the Payton Jordan Invite
• Big Meet winner in the 800 (2:07.03)
• CoSIDA Academic All-America first team
• CoSIDA District 8 All-Academic
• Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• First-team All-American in the distance medley relay
• Led off Stanford DMR that was second at the NCAA Championships
• The time of 10:53.37 was No. 2 in school history and No. 11 in collegiate history
• Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country • West Region Champions

• Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• All-West Region
• NCAA West Regional team champion
• Placed ninth at NCAA West Region as team's No. 4 runner
• Stanford's No. 3 runner, placing 57th, on sixth-place NCAA Championships team
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

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

• First-team All-American in the 1,500
• Eighth in the 1,500 at the NCAA Championships
• Third in the 1,500 at the Pac-12 Championships 
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

• Did not compete

Cross Country • Pac-12 Champions

• Second-team All-Pac-12
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• 12th at Pac-12 Championships in season debut
• Stanford's No. 5 runner as team repeated as Pac-12 champion
• Stanford's No. 4 runner as team placed third at NCAA Championships 

As a Senior (2019-20)
Outdoors

• Season canceled

Indoors

• All-American (mile)
• USTFCCCA All-Academic
• MPSF All-Academic
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Qualified for NCAA Championships in the mile.
• Ran 4:37.30 at the Husky Classic and earned the No. 14 seed.

Cross Country • West Region Champions • Pac-12 Champions 

• Helped Stanford to the Pac-12 championship as the No. 7 runner
• Was the No. 7 runner on third-place NCAA team
• Pac-12 All-Academic honor roll

As a Junior (2018-19)
Outdoors

• Team captain
• Competed twice unattached in the 800, at Cardinal Classic and Payton Jordan

Indoors

• Did not compete

Cross Country

• Won the season-opening USF Invitational at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Sophomore (2017-18)
Outdoors

• Advanced to her second consecutive NCAA 1,500 final, placing fourth in 4:09.59
• All-America first-team honors
• It was second-fastest in school history, behind third-placer Elise Cranny's 4:09.49
• Won her heat of 1,500 at the NCAA West Prelims to advance to nationals
• Pac-12 runner-up in the 1,500
• Ran 4:11.64 in the first round of the U.S. Championships and did not advance
• Ran 4:12.28 to finish second at the Payton Jordan Invitational
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
• USTFCCCA All-Academic team

Indoors

• Anchored Stanford to second in the distance medley relay at the NCAA Championships
• Stanford's time of 10:52.02 was a school record, the fifth-fastest in collegiate history and the fastest second-place time in NCAA history
• Aragon's 1,600 split in the race was 4:33.35, the fastest in the field
• It was her first DMR anchor leg
• Placed seventh in the 3,000 at the NCAA Championships, earning first-team All-America honors
• Ran her open mile lifetime best of 4:34.76 to place fourth at the MPSF Championships
• Ran her 3,000 best of 9:01.86 to place seventh at the Husky Invitational
• First-team All-America (3.000)
• First-team All-America (DMR)
• Second in NCAA distance medley relay
• No. 5 DMR time in collegiate history
• Fastest second-place DMR time in NCAA Championships history
• Seventh in NCAA 3,000
• Moved to No. 2 on Stanford's all-time list in the mile
• Moved to No. 1 and No. 6 on all-time list in the DMR
• MPSF All-Academic

Cross Country

• Was the No. 4 runner on Stanford's fourth-place team at the NCAA Championships
• Made her season debut at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 19th as the team's No. 4
• All-West Region
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Freshman (2016-17)
Outdoors

• All-America first team (1,500)
• Seventh in 1,500 at NCAA Championships, in 4:14.79, while racing sister Danielle Aragon of Notre Dame, who was 12th
• Pac-12 800 runner-up, in 2:05.67
• Made collegiate track debut at the Stanford Invitational, running 2:07.88 in the 800
• Ran season best 4:13.43 in 1,500 to finish second to teammate Elise Cranny at the Cardinal Classic
• Moved to No. 8 on Stanford's all-time list in the 1,500 (4:13.43)
• Moved to No. 2 on Stanford's all-time freshmen list in the 1,500 (4:13.43)
• Moved to No. 5 on Stanford's all-time freshmen list in the 800 (2:05.67)

Indoors

• Ran the 3,000 unattached at the UW Invitational on Jan. 27, running 9:12.58

Cross Country

• Earned All-America honors by placing 38th at the NCAA Championships
• Stanford's No. 2 runner at NCAA's, helping Card to fifth place
• Stanford's top two and three of top five were freshmen
• All-West Region selection
• All-Pac-12 second team
• Made collegiate debut at the Pre-Nationals, placing 41st in Terre Haute, Ind., on Oct. 15.

National/International Competition

• The first American female to medal in the 1,500 meters at the World U-20 Track and Field Championships, earning bronze in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on July 24, 2016
• The time of 4:08.71 made her the No. 4 U.S. junior ever and placed her No. 4 on the all-time high school performers' list
• Semifinalist at the 2016 Olympic Trials in Eugene, finishing ninth in her 1,500 section and 14th overall in 4:12.71
• Second at the 2016 U.S. Junior Championships in the 1,500, running 4:18.07

Prior to Stanford

• Won 12 Montana Class AA titles while running for Billings Senior High School
• Gatorade Montana Track and Field Athlete of the Year in 2015 and 2016
• Set Montana all-class meet records in the 800 (2:05.65), 1,600 (4:43.51), and 3,200 (10:22.10) at the 2016 state championships
• Won state Class AA 400 titles from 2013-15, but false-started in 2016
• Qualified for the Olympic Trials by running 4:09.27 to win the second section at the Portland (Ore.) Track Festival
• Ran 4:11.24 to win the second section of the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford
• Won the 2015 Brooks PR Invitational in 2:04.00
• Captured the Adidas Dream Mile in New York with a personal best mile of 4:37.91

Personal

• Father, Chuck, ran at Notre Dame and was among the top U.S. milers in the 1980s and is best known for his dive to the finish at the 1984 Olympic Trials 1,500 final, in a vain attempt to edge Sydney Maree for third
• Mother, the former Kathy Pfiefer, starred at New Mexico and ran in three Olympic Trials, including the 1984 marathon
• Sisters Alexa and Danielle were state high school champions, and stars at Notre Dame
• An Aragon sister won a Montana state title for 12 consecutive years

Career Results