Biography
SPU: Four-year letterwinner. ... SPU Outdoor Most Valuable (2014). GNAC Women's Track Athlete of the Year (2014). ... USTFCCCA indoor All-American in 800 meters (2012, 2013, and 2014) and 4x400 relay (2013), and outdoor All-American in the 800 (2014) 4x400 relay (2013). ... All-GNAC in indoor and outdoor 800 (2012, 2013, and 2014), indoor mile (2014), indoor 4x400 relay (2013 and 2014), indoor 4000 distance medley relay (2013), outdoor 1500 (2014) and outoor 4x400 relay (2013 and 2014). ... USTFCCCA indoor All-West Region in distance medley relay (2011) and 800 (2012, 2013, and 2014), mile (2014) and 4x400 relay (2014). ... USTFCCCA outdoor All-West Region in 800 (2012, 2013, and 2014), 400 (2014) and 4x400 relay (2014). ... GNAC All-Academic (2013 and 2014). ... USTFCCCA All-Academic (2013 and 2014). ... CoSIDA Academic All-District and Academic All-America (2014).
Senior (2014): INDOOR – Finished 2nd in the 800 at the NCAA Championships in Winston-Salem, N.C., coming within .49 of winner Shawnee Carnett from Concord (W.V.). Fricker crossed the finish line in 2:09.25. … Set an indoor PR of 2:09.04 at the UW Invitational on Feb. 1. … At the GNAC Championships on Feb. 22, entered the mile unseeded, as she had not posted a time in that event during the regular season, then won it in 5:00.37, an NCAA provisional qualifying mark. ... Placed 2nd to Simon Fraser's Sarah Sawatzky in the 800, clocking 2:10.59. OUTDOOR – Won the NCAA 800-meter championship, surging into the lead with 300 meters to go, then fending off Shawnee Carnett down the stretch to take the title in 2:06.18. That left her more than a full second ahead of Carnett’s 2:07.53, and easily beat her previous PR of 2:06.85, set on April 18 in a third-place finish at the Mt. SAC Relays. … On March 22 in the Oregon Preview at Historic Hayward Field – a meet she wasn’t even sure she wanted to run just one week after finishing second in the NCAA indoor 800 – broke her personal “holy grail” of 2:09 for the first time, clocking 2:08.00 and putting herself on the automatic qualifying list for nationals. That gave her second place in the race, in which she was the first collegiate runner across the line. Ended the day by anchoring the winning 4x400 relay. … Posted an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 55.95 in the 400 on April 12 at the UW Outdoor Open to win that event, , and made provisional twice in the 1,500, including a personal-best 4:28.19 on May 10 to win the GNAC title. … Later that same day at GNAC, staged a dramatic comeback in the 800, surged ahead Simon Fraser’s Sawatzky coming out of the final curve, then fended off her Clan rival by 11 hundredths of a second. … Also anchored the winning 4x400 relay at GNAC.
Junior (2013): INDOOR – Placed 4th in NCAA 800 meters on March 9 in Birmingham, Ala., with a PR of 2:10.76. That came just one day after her previous PR of 2:10.82 in the preliminaries. Ran anchor leg on the 6th-place 4x400 relay included Kishia Mitchell, Emily Quatier, and Jasmine Johnson. That relay came into the meet as the 14th and final seed and finished in 3:46.34, winning their heat and beating their own school record by more than two seconds. ... At GNAC Championships, crammed three races into less than three hours, placing 4th in the mile with a PR of 5:05.12; 5th in the 800 in 2:15.36, then anchoring the 2nd-place 4x400 relay that finished in 3:48.91 to break the 13-year-old school record of 3:50.29. ... Ran the 800-meter leg on 3rd-place DMR at GNAC, teaming with Jasmine Johnson, BryAnne Wochnick and Lynelle Decker for an NCAA provisional time of 12:19.15. ... Got onto the NCAA provisional qualifying list in the 800 in the season-opening UW Indoor Preview. ... Shattered her mile PR by finishing in 5:08.46 at the UW Indoor Open on Feb. 10. That was more than 20 seconds faster than her previous best of 5:29.01 from her 2011 freshman season. OUTDOOR – Ran the third leg on the the All-American 7th-place 4x400 relay team at the NCAA Division II championships on May 26 in Pueblo, Colo., teaming up with Kishia Mitchell, Emily Quatier, and Jasmine Johnson. That made them the first-ever GNAC All-American outdoor relay for either women or men. ... Also placed 11th in the 800. ... Won GNAC 800 meter title for second straight year, clocking 2:10.24, and anchored the winning 4x400 relay team that posted an NCAA provisional time of 3:44.11. Also placed 8th in the 1,500 at GNAC in a personal-best and NCAA provisional time of 4:35.30. ... Took the early-season national lead in the 800 by winning in 2:09.90 at the Oregon Preview in Eugene on March 16. In that same meet, anchored the winning 4x400 relay, teaming with Ali Worthen, Emily Quatier, and Lynelle Decker. ... Ran a PR of 2:09.42 in the 800 at the Bryan Clay Invitational on April 19 in Azusa, Calif.
Sophomore (2012): INDOOR – Ran to 5th place in the 800 at NCAA Division II championships in Mankato, Minn., finishing in a personal-best 2:11.69, coming from last place at the midpoint of the race. ... Ran into the lead with less than a lap to go in the 800 at the GNAC Championships, and won going away in 2:15.53. That was an NCAA provisioanl time, but still left her too far down the list to get into the national meet. Took care of that one week late at the SPU Last Chance meet when she went nearly three second faster at 2:12.67, to put herself into NCAAs. ... Over the course of the season, dropped nearly seven seconds in the 800, opening with a 2:18.51 at the UW Indoor Preview on Jan. 14 before finishing with the 2:11.69 at nationals on March 10. ... Also ran third leg (800) on SPU's third-place 4,000-meter distance medley relay team at GNAC. OUTDOOR – Won GNAC 800-meter championship, breaking out of a boxed-in situation with less than half a lap to go and pulling away to win in 2:11.79. ... Anchored SPU's winning 4x400 relay at GNAC. ... NCAA provisional qualifier in 800, bettering that standard five times, and part of 4x400 relay that beat NCAA provisional qualifying mark two times. ... Set a PR of 2:11.57 in the 800 on April 21 at Beach Invitational. ... GNAC automatic qualifier in 400 meters with a time of 56.88 at WWU Twilite on May 4, but did not run that event at conference.
Freshman (2011): INDOOR – Though known as a runner, also showed her jumping talent during the winter, placing 11th in the 800 and tying for 6th in the high jump at GNAC Championships. ... Also was on the 4th-place 4,000-meter distance medley relay at GNACs, running the 800-meter leg. OUTDOOR – Placed 15th in the 800 at the GNAC Championships. ... Ran in just four meets altogether because of injuries, competing in the 800 in three of them. Best placing was 6th at the Oregon Preview on March 19. Her time of 2:18.90 in that meet was SPU's best of the season by more than three seconds.
INDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
400: 59.21 (2012)
800: 2:09.04 (2014)
Mile: 5:00.37 (2014)
High jump: 5-1 1/4 / 1.56m (2011)
OUTDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
400: 55.95 (2014)
800: 2:06.18 (2014)
1500: 4:28.19 (2014)
