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Coach Metcalf On Neale One of the nation's elite prep distance runners from the time of her first meet as a freshman through today ... the Gatorade Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year for Washington in 2011 and 2012, and Gatorade Girls Cross Country Athlete of the Year for Washington in 2009, 2010, and 2012 ... she captured the Washington 3A cross country individual state title as a freshman in 2009, sophomore in 2010, and senior in 2012, and took second to fellow Husky commit Katie Knight in 2011 ... led Glacier Peak to the team title in 2010 and 2012 ... her final state cross country title in 2012 came by a dominant 41-seconds and broke her own course record, as she ran the 5,000m course in 17:03 ... also won the 2012 Stanford Invitational top section, the 2012 Border Clash race against Oregon, and then won the 2012 Nike Cross Nationals Northwest Region title ... was rated the No. 5 runner in the country in 2012 by Running Times ... also won Border Clash as a freshman in 2009, and was third in 2010 and second in 2011 ... NXN Northwest Region champ in 2011 and second in 2010 ... a top-10 finisher at the Nike Cross National Championships each of the past three years, placing eighth in 2012, fifth in 2011, and third in 2010 ... seventh in the 2012 Jim Ryun Dream Mile, an elite invitational event held at the adidas Grand Prix Diamond League meet in New York, running 4:43.82, and was fifth in the Dream Mile in 2011 in a time of 4:43.67 in a field that included current Huskies Eleanor Fulton and Maddie Meyers ... at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, participated in the Nike Elite mile, an exhibition race at Hayward Field, where she placed second in 4:56.18 ... owns five Washington 3A state track titles with one season remaining, and holds the state meet records at 800-meters, 1,600-meters, and 3,200-meters ... her freshman and sophomore seasons she swept the 1,600m and 3,200m state titles ... set her 3,200m best and state meet record in 2011, running 10:12.33, one of the fastest times in the nation ... an injury limited her to running just one event at the 2012 state meet, but she still won her first 800-meter title in 2:10.32, another meet record ... ran 2:10.00 at the Arcadia Invite in 2012, taking second ... took second at the 2012 Brooks PR Invite in the Dempsey, running the mile in 4:44.03, and was second at the same meet again in 2011, running 4:49.58 ... as a sophomore, ran two events at 2011 New Balance Outdoor Nationals in North Carolina, placing second in the 2,000m steeplechase in 6:42.48 to set a sophomore-class record, and was ninth in the mile in 4:51.08 ... went on to compete for Great Britain at the 2011 IAAF World Youth Championships, placing 11th in the 2,000m steeplechase in a personal-best 6:37.27 ... Seattle Times Girls Athlete of the Year for 2010-11 ... chose UW over Stanford and Colorado. Personal Best Marks |
