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Christine Babcock
11/30/2011 Babcock Named Pac-12 Scholar Athlete Of The YearThe senior is honored for the best combination of academic and athletic achievement. 11/29/2011 Metcalf Named Pac-12 Coach Of The YearKatie Flood and Christine Babcock named to the All-Pac-12 Team. 11/23/2011 Babcock, Bywater Lead Pac-12 Academic WinnersBabcock is third Husky to earn three First Team academic honors. 11/21/2011 Huskies Are National Runners-UpKatie Flood and Megan Goethals earn Top-20 finishes as UW earns its third top-three finish in four years. 11/20/2011 Message To Huskies: Do What You've Done All YearNCAA.com will provide a free live stream of the championships tomorrow.
Babcock Features: 2010-11: Returned to racing midway through the season following more than a full year away due to a foot injury ... her return helped spark the Huskies return to the NCAA Championships and the West Region title for the third straight year ... first race back was the Pac-10 Championships, where she was 19th overall, fifth among Huskies, as UW tied second-ranked Oregon for third ... placed 19th again at Regionals, third among Huskies, as Washington took the title over the host Ducks ... earned her third All-West Region honors ... was the No. 4 Husky finisher at the NCAA Championships, placing 114th overall, as Washington finished 16th place ... began her comeback by winning the Mike Hodges Invite in Clackamas, Oregon, as she topped the field by 41 seconds ... was named to the Pac-10 All-Academic First Team for the second straight year as well as picking up USTFCCCA All-Academic honors once again ... (Track): An achilles injury prevented her from competing during the track season ... named to the Capital One Academic All-District Second Team ... also named a Pac-10 All-Academic First Team member. 2009-10: Turned in another All-America campaign that was a driving force in repeat Pac-10 and West Regional titles for UW and a third-place NCAA finish ... was 34th at NCAAs, the fourth finisher on the squad, to earn her second All-America honor ... earned First Team All-Pac-10 honors for the second time with a fifth-place finish at the conference meet in 19:58, helping the Huskies defend their Pac-10 title ... also earned Pac-10 All-Academic First Team honors, the only woman to earn a spot on both First Teams ... finished 10th at the West Region Championships, the fifth UW finisher, earning All-West Region honors ... cruised to a fifth-place finish at Pre-Nationals, third among Huskies, as UW took the title by thirty points ... made season-debut at the Notre Dame Invite, taking fourth as UW swept the top four spots for the win ... redshirted the track season due to a foot tendon issue. 2008-09: Sensational freshman season culminated in an undefeated season and the program's first NCAA Championship ... led the Huskies at the national meet in Terre Haute, placing seventh overall in 20:02 and earning All-America honors ... was the top finishing freshman in the nation ... seventh-place NCAA finish was the best by a Husky woman since 1982, when Regina Joyce placed second ... named the Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year in a vote by the conference coaches, after placing 3rd at the Pac-10 meet which the Huskies swept for their first conference title in 19 years ... led the women to victory at the Regional meet, placing third overall ... picked up All-Pac-10 First Team and All-West Region honors ... finished fourth overall at Pre-Nationals, second among Huskies ... made collegiate debut at the Tiger Invite, where she was second overall in a 5K time of 16:02 ... (Track): Continued cross country excellence with one of the best freshman track seasons in school history ... indoors, earned All-America honors running the lead-off 1200m leg of Washington's distance medley relay, which placed eighth at NCAA's ... also led off the DMR at the MPSF Championships, which the Huskies won easily, and at the UW Invitational, where the foursome shattered the school record in a time of 11:05.80 ... ran the open mile just twice, but hit the NCAA Automatic qualifier of 4:38.00 in her first attempt, ranking her second in school history ... her top mile time was the fastest by a freshman all season ... took second in the mile at MPSFs in 4:39.44 ... outdoors, reached the 1,500-meter finals at the NCAA Championships, where she finished 11th, one spot out of All-America status ... in the NCAA prelims, lowered her PR to 4:16.10, ranking sixth in school history ... went under 4:20 in her first 1,500-meters, finishing third at the Stanford Invite in 4:19.13 ... in her first 800-meters, broke UW's freshman record with a time of 2:06.55 at Sun Angel ... anchored UW's 4x1,500-meter relay team at the legendary Penn Relays, where the Huskies finished third, eclipsing the old collegiate record in the process in 17:14.55 ... at Pac-10's, took third in the 800-meters in 2:06.57 ... won the 1,500-meters at the UW-WSU dual with a four-second meet record time of 4:18.32 ... named to the USTFCCCA Division-I All-Academic Team. High School and Personal: Born in Laguna Hills, California ... parents are Kelly and Dan Babcock ... has one older sister, Jessie, and one younger, Molly ... sister Jessie currently runs track for Penn State ... mother, Kelly, ran collegiately for Michigan State and competed in the 1984 Olympic Marathon Trials ... had one of the greatest high school careers of any prep in history, setting national high school records in the 1500-meters and 1600-meters ... qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 1500m, and reached the semifinals where she placed 18th overall in 4:20.00 ... named the 2008 Gatorade California Track Athlete of the year, the 2007 LA Times Track and Field Athlete of the Year, and the Orange County Register Female Athlete of the year for 2007 and 2008 ... won her third consecutive 1600m state title in 2008, the first ever athlete to three-peat, and won her final title in a National Federation of High Schools record time of 4:33.82 ... qualified for the Olympic Trials by running a 4:16.42 1500m PR, breaking the national high school record that had stood for 26 years ... was undefeated in her final two years of cross country, winning the California Division II state title both years, after finishing runner-up as a sophomore ... Team MVP from 2006-2008 ... graduated with a 4.0 GPA. Major Meets * All-America Honor Collegiate Best Times |
