TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- NCAA indoor distance medley relay champion (2023)
- Four-time All-American
- Pac-12 800 champion (2023)
- Pac-12 Women's Track and Field Freshman of the Year (2023)
- School-record holder: indoor 4x400 and DMR, outdoor DMR
- Stanford Athletics Board Conference Athlete of the Year
- U.S. under-20 800 champion (2022)
- National high school outdoor record-holder (800 meters)
- Two-time NCAA West Region XC team champions (2022, 2023)
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2023; T&F spring 2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
- 800: 1:59.04
- 1,500: 4:12.49
- Mile: 4:33.53
- 1,000: 2:39.41
- 5,000: 16:58.32
- 400: 53.74
As a Sophomore (2023-24) * NCAA West Region Champions
- Raced once, placing 39th in the 'B' race at the Wisconsin Nuttycombe Invite
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Freshman (2022-23)
Outdoors
- Second-team All-American (4x400)
- Pac-12 800 champion
- Pac-12 Women's Track and Field Freshman of the Year
- Second leg on 12th-place 4x400 at NCAA Championships
- Anchored Stanford to Penn Relays distance medley relay victory
- The time of 10:50.56 set a school outdoor record
- Won the Mt. SAC Relays 1,500 in a lifetime best 4:12.49
- Ran 2:00.74 in the 800 in the first round of the U.S. Championships
- The time is No. 4 in Stanford outdoor history
- Set personal 400 best of 53.74 at the Stanford Invitational
- Has run on the No. 2 and No. 3 4x400s in school history
- Broke school freshmen record in the 1,500
- Stanford Athletics Board Conference Athlete of the Year
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- NCAA indoor distance medley relay champion
- Three-time All-American
- First-team All-American in the 800 and DMR
- Second-team All-American in the 4x400
- Anchored Stanford to the DMR victory at the NCAA Championships
- NCAA 800 runner-up to teammate Roisin Willis in 2:00.05
- Her time was the No. 4 indoor 800 performance and made her the No. 3 performer in collegiate history
- Anchored Card to school record in the DMR in 10:49.30
- The time was No. 6 in collegiate history for all conditions
- Ran lifetime mile best of 4:33.53 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
- Broke school freshman record in the mile
- No. 2 in the 800 and No. 3 in the mile on school's all-time indoor list
- Made collegiate debut at the UW Indoor Preview, winning the 800 and 4x400 relay
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions
- Did not compete
International/National
- 2022 World Under-20 Championships bronze medalist in the 800
- U.S. U20 champion in the 800 in 2022
- Advanced to the semifinals of the 800 at the U.S. Olympic Trials, placing 10th overall
Prior to Stanford
- Broke the national high school outdoor 800 record on June 25, 2022, running 1:59.04 to win the U.S. U20 title in Eugene
- Captured bronze at the World U20 Championships in 2:00.18
- Named 2021-22 Gatorade National Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
- Two-time Maryland Gatorade Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
- Won the mile at the 2022 Brooks PR Invitational in a meet record 4:36.23
- Ran her mile PB of 4:36.15 in a Pennsylvania meet against boys, the No. 4 prep time in the nation in 2022
- The nation’s No. 1 recruit in her class by MileSplit
- No. 3 on the all-time U.S. U20 performers’ list in the 800
- Broke 2:00 twice in 2022, including a 1:59.80 at Track Night NYC vs. pros
- Ran sub-2:02 four times in a five-week span and six times overall in 2021
- Advanced to the semifinals of the 800 at the U.S. Olympic Trials, placing 10th overall
- Won the 2021 Brooks PR Invite mile in 4:38.65, the year’s fastest high school time
- Joined future Stanford teammate Roisin Willis in setting a world indoor under-20 record in the 4x800
- Joined Willis on a DMR team that ran the fastest U20 time in indoor history
- Won high school mile at 2022 Penn Relays and was second in the Olympic Development 800
- Won the mile at the 2022 New Balance Indoor Nationals in 4:37.23, the No. 4 indoor performance in prep history
Personal
- Parents are Jill and Paul Whittaker
- Both competed in track at Georgetown
- Brother Alex competed in track and cross country at Yale
- Sister Bella is a sprinter at Penn
- Coached through high school by her father
- Anticipates a career in sports marketing or management
- Competitive swimmer for seven years
- Class president at Mount de Sales Academy
Career Results
Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
2023-24 | Cross Country (1) | 8K | 22:28.9 | -- | -- | -- |
2022-23 | Outdoors (8) | 800 | 2:00.74 | 1 (2:01.19) | -- | -- |
1,500 | 4:12.49 | -- | 16 (4:16.15) | -- | ||
400 | 53.74 | -- | -- | -- | ||
4x400 | 3:29.43 | 3 (3:34.35) | 7 (3:29.43) | 14 (3:30.98) | ||
DMR | 10:50.56 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Indoors (5) | 800 | 2:00.05 | -- | -- | 2 (2:00.05) | |
Mile | 4:33.53 | -- | -- | -- | ||
4x400 | 3:31.71 | -- | -- | 12 (3:32.80) | ||
DMR | 10:49.30 | -- | -- | 1 (10:56.34) | ||
Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |