Lewis & Clark College

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2024-25 Awards 
 
All-Conference: 400M Hurdles (2^nd Place)
All-Conference: 4x400M Relay (3^rd Place) 
2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
2025 Northwest Conference Scholar-Athlete 

2025 Outdoor Season Best Marks
 
100M: 13.59 – Lane CC Open, March 15 – 40^th in program history
200M: 26.48 – Portland Twilight, May 10 – 12^th in program history
400M: 58.93 – Northwest Conference Championship, April 27 – 6^th in program history
400M Hurdles: 1:04.06 – John Knight Invite, April 12 – 2^nd in program history

2025 Indoor Season Best Marks
 
400M: 1:01.67 – Portland Indoor #1, January 26 – 5^th in program history  
60M Hurdles: 11.58 – George Fox Indoor #2, February 21– 8^th in program history   

NOTABLES 

• Established herself as the top sprinter on the women’s team during her junior campaign 
• Recorded PRs/top-50 marks in program history in all six events she raced and notched top-12 times in program history in five of those events 
• Competed in 15 meets during her junior season 
• Placed fourth at the Oregon Preview in the 400M Hurdles (1:06.08) and 4x400M Relay (4:05.42) 
• Registered the second-fastest 400M Hurdles time in program history (1:04.06) to place third overall and added top-five finishes in the 4x400M Relay (1^st) and 400M (4^th) at the John Knight Invite
• Earned All-Conference honors in the 400M Hurdles (2^nd place) and 4x400M Relay (3^rd place) for the second-straight year at the NWC Championship Meet
• Helped the 4x400M Relay Team (3:58.35) run the second-fastest time in program history at NWCs
• Added a PR in the 400M (58.93) to finish sixth overall at NWCs 
• Wrapped up the NWC Championship Meet by scoring 17 points 

2023-24 Awards 
 
All-Conference: 4x400M Relay (2^nd Place) and 400M Hurdles (3^rd Place) 
College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District  

2024 Outdoor Season Best Marks
 
200M: 27.73 – Willamette Invitational, March 23– 30^th in program history
400M: 1:00.44 – Northwest Conference Championship, April 15-16 – 8^th in program history
400M Hurdles: 1:07.41 – Northwest Conference Championship, April 15-16 – 9^th in program history

2023-24 Indoor Season Best Marks
 
200M: 28.16 – 2023 Spokane Invitational, December 9 - 7^th in program history
400M: 1:02.13 – 2023 Spokane Invitational, December 9 - 4^th in program history

NOTABLES 

• Put together a strong sophomore season that saw her earn her first two career All-Conference honors and develop into one of the top sprinters on the team 
• Posted a pair of top-seven marks in indoor program history in her first meet of the season – the 2023 Spokane Invitational
• Set the Indoor 4x400M Relay record at the Whitworth Indoor Invitational when the Pioneers ran a 4:07.08
• Ran the two-fastest times of her collegiate career in the 400M Hurdles (1:07.41) to finish third and added a collegiate PR mark of 1:00.44 in the 400M to place seventh at the NWC Championship Meet
• Helped the 4x400M Relay team finish in second place at the NWC Championship Meet and run the fastest time in program history (3:58.07) to break the program record that had stood for 37 years 

2023 Outdoor Season Best Marks
 
100M: 14:01 – L&C Friday Night Lights, March 24
200M: 28.37 – Portland Twilight, May 6 – 47^th in program history
400M: 1:04.55 – Portland Twilight, May 6 - 37^th in program history
 
2023 Indoor Season Best Marks 
 
60M: 8.87 – George Fox Indoor #2, February 17 - 14^th in program history
 
NOTABLES 

• Made her collegiate track & field debut on January 22 when she competed at the Portland Indoor #1 Meet
• Member of the 4x400M Relay team that set the indoor program record at the Portland Indoor #1 Meet (4:19.80)
• Competed at the NWC Championship Meet in the 4x100M (7^th place) and 4x400M Relays (7^th place) 

Prior to Lewis & Clark: Attended Cleveland High School … Played club soccer with Portland City United … Named the Valedictorian … Earned IB Diploma … Member of the National Honor Society. 

Why Lewis & Clark?: I chose Lewis & Clark because of its size, campus and science program.