Hall of Fame induction: 2022
A state champion & multi-record distance runner while attending Tatnall High School, at Duke University she was a nine-times NCAA All-American and D1 NCAA champion in the 2011 10k. She was also a multi-time ACC conference champion and set individual school & ACC conference records while attending Duke University.
While attending Tatnall High School she broke the state record in every distance event, from the 800 to 3200 meters, ending with 21 state records, nine in individual events. The state’s top cross-country runner for three seasons, she led Tatnall to four state titles, and anchored Tatnall’s winning team in the Penn Relays Championship of America distance medley relay. As a senior, she was the state’s top athlete in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track, and was five times named a high school All-American.
At Duke University, she was an NCAA 10,000-meter champion. She won the 2011 national collegiate championship in the 10,000-meter run in just her third race at the distance. It was one of six times that she was first-team all-American in individual events: twice each at the 10,000, twice in the indoors 5,000 and twice in cross country. In cross country, she was four times All-ACC and All-Southeast Region. In indoor track, she was ACC champion and first-team All-American at 5,000 meters in 2013 and 2014. Outdoors, she was All-East in the 3,000 meters in 2011 and 2012. She set the ACC record in the indoor 5,000 in 2013, ran on a second team all-American indoor distance medley relay in 2011; was ACC cross country freshman of the year (2009).
She was twice Academic All-American in Division I Women’s Track and Cross Country, and twice ACC track or cross-country Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2014). She also competed on the 2010 USA world junior cross-country team at the cross-country world championships in Poland.
As a professional from 2014 through 2016, she finished fifth in the 2014 U.S. 10,000-meter road-racing championships, fourth in the 2015 U.S. 15,000-meter championship and sixth in the 2015 U.S. half-marathon (71:30), with six top-ten finishes overall at USA championship races. Since ending her professional running career and going back to graduate school, she has run a 2:44 marathon at the 2021 Boston Marathon.