CassidyHale
- class Junior
- Previous School duPont Manual
SEC All-Freshman Team – Cross Country (2013)
2013-14 (Freshman)
Outdoor – Competed multiple times, with a 1,500M college personal-best time of 4:32.45 having come at the Florida Relays.
Indoor – Competed sparingly, but was part of UK’s first-place DMR team at the Kentucky Relays.
Cross Country – Enjoyed one of the strongest debut seasons in recent UK cross country history … Southeastern Conference All-Freshman Team selection after finishing as the No. 5 first-year runner to cross the finish line, 26th overall in 21:22.42 at the SEC Championships helping UK to a third-place finish, its highest conference meet placement since coming in second at the 2002 meet … SEC Championship time was her season best at 6,000-meter … Best 5k time of the season, 17:36.6, came at home meet, the Bluegrass Invitational … Competed at NCAA Southeast Regional Championships.
Prior to UK: One of the most accomplished distance runners to come out of Kentucky in some time … Was the 2011 Gatorade Runner of the Year as well as Ms. Kentucky Cross Country 2011 … Four-time participant in the Kentucky Dream Mile, an event in which she owns a personal best of 5:01.43 … The 2011 Class AAA cross country champion, and has a personal best of 17:41 … In 2013, she also lowered her 3,200 meters personal best to 10:52.83 … She was Kentucky 3,200-meter runner up, and also a member of the 4x800m State Championship team in 2013.