2012 Women's Cross Country Roster
Biography
SPU: Two-year letterwinner. ... SPU Most Improved in 2011. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2012.
Sophomore (2012): Won a college race for the first time, leading everyone across the finish line at the season-opening UAF Long Course meet by finishing the 6-kilometer course in 22 minutes, 56.9 seconds. ... Led SPU and was 2nd overall in the short-course race two days later. ... Ran in the top 10 overall at Sundodger, taking 10th and finishing No. 3 for the Falcons as they took 3rd as a team with 88 points -- both of which were school records for that meet. ... Was No. 2 for SPU (27th overall) at Charles Bowles Invitational, then ran in all three postseason meets: No. 4 for SPU (28th overall) at GNAC; No. 3 for SPU (27th overall) at West Regionals in Oahu, Hawaii;, and No. 7 for SPU (135th overall) at the NCAA D-2 Championships in Joplin, Mo.
Redshirt freshman (2011): Made her season debut at the Erik Anderson Invitational on Sept. 24 in Spokane, placing No. 3 for SPU (48th overall) in the meet that served as an NCAA regional preview. ... Ran in three other meets, scoring in all of them. ... Deliverd a solid performance at GNACs, placing No. 3 for SPU and 22nd overall. ... Followed that by running No. 3 again for the Falcons (52nd overall) at NCAA West Regionals, factoring into a sixth-place team finish, as No. 8-ranked Seattle Pacific beat two teams that had been ranked higher coming into the meet.
Freshman (2010): Ran the first two races of the season, placing 3rd for SPU in both the UAF Long-Course and Short-Course meets in Fairbanks (10th overall in the former, 12th in the latter), then missed the rest of the year with a stress fracture. She was granted a medical redshirt by the NCAA, so will be a freshman in terms of cross country eligibility in 2011.
Wayzata High School: Four-year-letterwinner in cross country, three-year letterwinner in track. ... All-conference and all-section as a junior. ... State cross country and track participant as a junior. ... Team co-MVP for cross country and team Most Improved for cross country as a junior.
Personal: Majoring in food and nutrition; minoring in global and urban ministries.
Fun facts: If she wasn't doing cross country and track, would consider gymnastics or crew. ... Enjoys watching football. ... Book she just couldn't put down was "Left to Tell," written by a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, and "The Kite Runner." ... Favorite junk food is ice cream. ... Favorite TV program is "The Amazing Race." ... Has numerous nicknames, mostly from her family, a few of which are Skippy, Bipper and Lamby. ... In 10 years, she would like to be doing mission work in Kenya after visiting that country on a trip with her mother, brother and grandparents in the summer of 2009. Now considers Kenya to be her second home.
