2019 Track & Field Roster
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Rainsberger, Katie
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Katie Rainsberger
- Position:
- Distances
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Colorado Springs, Colo.
- High School:
- Air Academy
- Prev School:
- Oregon
Bio
2021 3,000m Steeplechase Bronze Medalist (All-America First Team)
2021 Pac-12 Steeplechase Runner-Up
2021 All-America First Team (Mile Indoors)
2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2020 All-America (3,000m and DMR, Indoors)
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team
2019 All-American in Cross Country
2019 All-America First Team (Mile Indoors); All-America Second Team (3,000mย Indoors)
2018 All-American in Cross Country
2017 All-American in Cross Country
2017 Pac-12 Cross Country Runner-Up
2017 All-America First Team (1,500mย Outdoors; 3,000mย Indoors; DMR Indoors)
2017 MPSFย Mile Champion
2016 All-American in Cross Country
2016, 2017, 2019 All-Pac-12 XC First Team
2016 Pac-12 Cross Country Freshman of the Year
Rainsberger Features
ยป Steeplechase Standout Rainsberger Hopes Her Full-Circle Story Ends On NCAA Podium (Seattle Times; June 7, 2021)
ยป Stride Report Interview (Mar. 27, 2020)
ยป Rainsberger Leads Huskies Into NCAA Championships (Seattle Times; Nov. 22, 2019)
ยปย Joining The Pack: Rainsberger And Burdon Help Huskies Build (GoHuskies.com; Nov. 18, 2019)
2021: Completed her outstanding collegiate career with two more First Team All-America honors, giving her a total of 13 All-America awards between track and cross country โฆ in her final collegiate race, took third in the 3,000m steeplechase final at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, breaking her own school record and running the No. 8 time in NCAA history and No. 2 time in Pac-12 history of 9:32.12 โฆ third-place in the steeplechase earned First Team All-America and tied the best finish ever by a Husky in the event and qualified her for the Olympic Trials, in her first season running the event โฆ went on to the Olympic Trials and reached the final, placing 10th overall and lowering her school record one more time to 9:30.18 ... in the NCAA semifinals, ran a time of 9:36.71, another school record that would be broken two days later โฆ first broke the 12-year-old school record at the Pac-12 Championships, taking second-place in 9:38.84 in just third career steeple โฆ also took fourth in the 5,000-meters at Pac-12s in a PR of 15:46.12 โฆ moved through NCAA Prelims in the steeple by winning her quarterfinal heat in a time of 9:47.38 โฆ third in the steeplechase at the West Coast Relays in 9:49.79 โฆ first steeple came at the Stanford Invitational, winning in a solo effort of 10:00.29 โฆ broke the Meet Record at the UW-WSU Dual, winning the 1,500m in 4:17.63 โฆ opened outdoor season with a 1,500m time of 4:16.87 at the Raleigh Relays โฆ indoors, earned First Team All-America honors once more in the mile, taking eighth in the NCAA Indoor Championships final with a time of 4:39.67 โฆ qualified for NCAAs with a season-best mile of 4:38.15 at the Husky Classicย โฆ an Academic All-American for the second year in a row, taking First Team honors from CoSIDA ... made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2019-20 (Indoor Track; Outdoor Season Canceled): Added two more All-America honors to her lengthy list of achievements, earning the honor for the 3,000-meters and the distance medley relay โฆ raced just four times indoors but made them all count โฆ ran the No. 2 time in school history in the 3,000-meters, less than a second from the school record, going 8:56.24 at the Husky Classic for fifth-place โฆ anchored the DMR to an NCAA-qualifying time of 10:56.23, also the second-fastest in school history, to take second at the UW Invitational โฆ qualified for NCAA Indoors in the 3k and DMR but did not get to compete as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 โฆ ran a rarely contested indoor 1,500-meters at the BU Last Chance Qualifier and ran a time of 4:12.71 โฆ first race of the season was a 3k at the UW Indoor Preview where she ran 9:01.88 โฆ earned her first career Academic All-America honor, named to the Second Team by CoSIDA โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll selection โฆ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors ...ย (Cross Country): Ended her cross country career with a fourth All-America honor and finished top-10 at four of six races on the season โฆ at the NCAA Championships, placed 33rd overall in 20:41 for All-America honors, helping the team place 11th overall โฆ earned All-West Region honors with a sixth-place finish at Regionals, second among Huskies, in 20:05 โฆ led the Dawgs at the Pac-12 Championships with a fourth-place finish in 19:41, earning All-Pac-12 First Team, and helping UW take second as a team โฆ led UW to the big team victory at Pre-Nationals, taking sixth-place overall in 20:14 โฆ was second on the squad and 13th overall at the Joe Piane Invite โฆ the No. 2 scorer at the John McNichols Invite with an eighth-place finish โฆ named to the fall Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.
2018-19 (Track): Continued to add on to her All-America totals with two more during the indoor season, as she was seventh in the mile at NCAA Indoors and 12th in the 3,000-meters โฆ outdoors, posted the seventh-fastest 1,500m time in school history and was top-five in two events at the Pac-12 Championships โฆ just missed advancing to NCAA Outdoors by a fraction of a second, as she was 13th overall in the NCAA West Prelim quarterfinals at 1,500-meters in a time of 4:15.86 โฆ was fourth in the Pac-12 1,500-meter final in Tucson in a time of 4:18.39 and then doubled back to take fifth in the 5,000-meters in 16:07.43 โฆ continued to race after the collegiate season ended, running the 1,500-meters at the Music City Distance Carnival in 4:13.18 and then again at the Portland Track Festival in 4:13.15 โฆ won the Ken Shannon Invite 1,500-meters in 4:20.82 โฆ indoors, made the NCAA mile final and took seventh with a time of 4:39.05 for First Team All-America honors โฆ ran the 3k final shortly after the mile and placed 12th in 9:17.37 for Second Team All-America โฆ helped the DMR qualify for NCAA Indoors by running the opening 1,200-meter leg at the UW Invitational as the group ran 11:00.35 for the No. 3 time in school history โฆ ran a mile PR of 4:35.15 at the Last Chance Elite Meet to go to No. 4 in UW history โฆ ran her NCAA 3k qualifier at the Husky Classic, going 9:02.84, the third-fastest in school history โฆ also ran a 4:37.30 mile time at the UW Indoor Preview to kick off the track season and another time of 4:36.76 for fourth at the UW Invitational โฆ helped the DMR take third at the MPSF Championships ...ย (Cross Country): An outstanding first season as a Dawg as she earned her third-straight All-American honor in cross country, leading the Huskies to ninth-place at the NCAA Championships โฆ led UW in every race of the season, including NCAAs in Wisconsin, where she finished 19th overall in a time of 20:15 โฆ was ninth at the West Regional meet to earn All-West Region honors in a time of 19:40 โฆ finished 11th at the Pac-12 Championships to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team honors โฆ finished 10th at the Pre-Nationals meet in Wisconsin in 20:20 โฆ was the runner-up at the Stanford Invitational in her first real race effort as a Husky.
2017-18 (Track At Oregon): A late start to her track season but still advanced to the quarterfinals of the 1,500-meters at NCAA West Preliminaries ... fifth in the 1,500 meters (4:26.98) to score Oregon four points and placed eleventh in the 5,000 meters in 16:43.56 at the Pac-12 Championships ... ran the 1,500 meters in 4:23.03 at the Oregon Twilight ... (Cross Country At Oregon): An All-American and First Team All-Pac-12 selection who led the Ducks in every meet throughout the season, earning a top-five finish four times and a top-20 finish in every meet ... earned all-American honors with a 16th place finish at the NCAA Championships in 19:50.6, helping the Ducks to fifth as a team ... was the Ducks' first finisher and fifth overall finisher at the NCAA West Regional in 19:30 ... was the Pac-12 Cross Country runner-up just missing the win by a split second, finishing in 18:58 in Springfield, earning First Team All-Pac-12 honors for the second year in a row ... led the Ducks with an overall fourth place finish (19:42.02) at the Pre-Nationals Invitational ... dominated the Bell Dellinger Invitational, shattering the previous course record by 37 seconds with a time of 18:47.6 and leading the Ducks to a 1-2-3 finish.
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2016-17 (Track At Oregon): Three First Team All-America honors in her first track season, placing fourth in the NCAA 1,500-meter final outdoors, and indoors was third in the 3,000-meters and anchored the distance medley relay to third-place as well โฆ went on to compete at the 2017 USATF Outdoor Championships and made the 1,500-meter final, placing 10th in 4:12.64 as the second-highest collegiate finisher โฆ between NCAAs and USAs, ran at the Stumptown Twilight Meet and set a new 1,500mย PR of 4:09.08 to go to No. 5 all-time in the U.S. Junior rankings ... outdoors, advanced to the finals at the NCAA Championships in Eugene and took fourth with a time of 4:14.20, helping Oregon win the team title ... reached the final with a semifinal run of 4:19.21 in Eugene, and made it out of NCAA West Prelims with a 4:23.49 winning first round time and a fourth-place time of 4:28.74 in the quarters ... reached the podium twice at Pac-12s, taking second in the 1,500 meters in 4:23.07 and third in the 5,000 meters (16:13.53) for 14 team points ... took third-place and ran a then-PR in the 1,500 meters in 4:11.53 at the Oregon Twilight, the fourth-fastest time during the NCAA regular season โฆ previously lowered her 1,500m best to 4:13.25 at the Mt. SAC Relays ... a new 800-meter PR of 2:05.20 at the OSU High Performance Meet ... indoors, placed third in the 3,000m in 9:09.87 and anchored the third-place DMR team at the NCAA Indoor Championships which finished in 11:00.68 to two All-America honors and help Oregon win the team title ... anchored the DMR to a new collegiate record time of 10:48.77 at the Columbia East-West Challenge ... took over the NCAA lead and set a new personal record in the 3,000 meters of 9:01.21 at the Husky Classic ... won the MPSF Championship title in the mile and set a new personal record at 4:35.60 โฆ (Cross Country At Oregon): Led Oregon to the 2016 NCAA title with her fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships in 19:51.1, earning All-America status ... was the top freshman finisher at the national meet ... named a 2016 Honda Award finalist for cross country ... second for the Ducks and 11th overall at the NCAA West Regionals in 19:52 ... was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year after placing fifth overall at the Pac-12 Championships in Tucson with a time of 20:30, also earning First Team All-Pac-12 honors ... sixth overall and first among Ducks at the 2016 ISU Pre-Nationals with a time of 20:19 ... led UO and finished second overall in 19:42 in her Oregon debut at the Washington Invitational.
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High School and Personal:ย Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado ... parents are Lisa and Ellis Rainsbergerย ... has one older brother, Kris, and one younger brother, Ian, and one older sister, Meghan ... mother Lisa Larsen (Weidenbach) Rainsberger won the 1985 Boston Marathon, the last American woman to win the race until 2018 โฆ father played college football at Kansas State ... was the 2015 National Gatorade Cross Country Runner of the Year and was the Colorado Gatorade state winner for both track and field and cross county as a senior at Air Academy High School in 2015-16 โฆ won 10 state titles in cross country and track and field โฆ was undefeated at distance as a senior โฆ won the national title at the Nike Cross Nationals Final, breaking the tape in 16:56.8 โฆ was also the NXN Southwest Regional champion in a time of 17:07 after taking individual cross country medalist honors at the Class 4A state championships toย lead Air Academy to the 2015 state title โฆ set the course record of 17:39 at the state meet โฆ in track and field, swept the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meters at the 2016 Colorado state meet for the second straight season โฆ clocked the No. 6 all-time prep time in the 1,500 meters at the 2016 Portland Track Festival, where she ran 4:12.62 โฆ as a junior, won the state cross country title to earn her first Gatorade Colorado Cross Country Athlete of the Year award, and then on the track claimed state titles at 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meters โฆ also notched the No. 5 prep mile time (4:40.92) to earn 2015 Track and Field News All-America honors ... also played soccer up until junior year of high school.
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Major Meets
2016 Pac-12 XC โ 5th (1st UO)
2016 Regional XC โ 11th (1st UO)
2016 NCAA XC โ 4th (1st UO) (All-America)
2017 MPSF TF โ 1st, Mile (MPSF Champion)
2017 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, 3000m (All-America First Team) | 3rd, DMR (All-America First Team)
2017 Pac-12 TF โ 2nd, 1500m | 3rd, 5000m
2017 NCAA Prelims TF โ 4th, 1500m
2017 NCAA Outdoors โ 4th, 1500m (All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors โ 10th, 1500m
2017 Pac-12 XC โ 2nd (1st UO)
2017 Regional XC โ 5th (1st UO)
2017 NCAA XC โ 16th (1st UO) (All-America)
2018 Pac-12 TF โ 5th, 1500m | 11th, 5000m
2018 NCAA Prelims TF โ 18th, 1500m
2018 Pac-12 XC - 11th (1st UW)
2018 Regional XC - 9th (1st UW)
2018 NCAA XC - 19th (1st UW) (All-America)
2019 MPSF TF - 3rd, DMR
2019 NCAA Indoors - 7th, Mile (All-America First Team) | 12th, 3000mย (All-America Second Team)
2019 Pac-12 TF - 4th, 1500m | 5th, 5000m
2019 NCAA Prelims TF - 13th, 1500m
2019 Pac-12 XC - 4th (1st UW)
2019 Regional XC - 6th (2nd UW)
2019 NCAA XC - 33rd (2nd UW) (All-America)
2020 NCAA Indoors - 3000m Qualifier (All-America) | DMR Qualifier (All-America)
2021 NCAA Indoors - 8th, Mile (All-America First Team)
2021 Pac-12 TF - 2nd, 3000m Steeplechase | 4th, 5000m
2021 NCAA Prelims TF - 3rd, 3000m Steeplechase (1st in heat)
2021 NCAA Outdoors - 3rd, 3000m Steeplechase (All-America First Team)
2021 U.S. Olympic Trials - 10th, 3000m Steeplechase
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.2:05.20
1500mโฆโฆ.4:09.08
5000mโฆโฆ.15:46.12
3000m Steeplechase.......9:30.18ย (School Record)
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Indoor Bests
Mileโฆโฆ.4:35.15
3000mโฆโฆ.8:56.24
Academic Honors
2020-21 CosIDA Academic All-America First Team
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2019-20 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team
2020 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
2020 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2019 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic XC
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
2018 USTFCCCA All-Academic XC
2018 Pac-12 All-Academic TF 2nd Team
2017 Pac-12 All-Academic XC 2nd Team
2021 Pac-12 Steeplechase Runner-Up
2021 All-America First Team (Mile Indoors)
2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
2020 All-America (3,000m and DMR, Indoors)
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team
2019 All-American in Cross Country
2019 All-America First Team (Mile Indoors); All-America Second Team (3,000mย Indoors)
2018 All-American in Cross Country
2017 All-American in Cross Country
2017 Pac-12 Cross Country Runner-Up
2017 All-America First Team (1,500mย Outdoors; 3,000mย Indoors; DMR Indoors)
2017 MPSFย Mile Champion
2016 All-American in Cross Country
2016, 2017, 2019 All-Pac-12 XC First Team
2016 Pac-12 Cross Country Freshman of the Year
Rainsberger Features
ยป Steeplechase Standout Rainsberger Hopes Her Full-Circle Story Ends On NCAA Podium (Seattle Times; June 7, 2021)
ยป Stride Report Interview (Mar. 27, 2020)
ยป Rainsberger Leads Huskies Into NCAA Championships (Seattle Times; Nov. 22, 2019)
ยปย Joining The Pack: Rainsberger And Burdon Help Huskies Build (GoHuskies.com; Nov. 18, 2019)
2021: Completed her outstanding collegiate career with two more First Team All-America honors, giving her a total of 13 All-America awards between track and cross country โฆ in her final collegiate race, took third in the 3,000m steeplechase final at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, breaking her own school record and running the No. 8 time in NCAA history and No. 2 time in Pac-12 history of 9:32.12 โฆ third-place in the steeplechase earned First Team All-America and tied the best finish ever by a Husky in the event and qualified her for the Olympic Trials, in her first season running the event โฆ went on to the Olympic Trials and reached the final, placing 10th overall and lowering her school record one more time to 9:30.18 ... in the NCAA semifinals, ran a time of 9:36.71, another school record that would be broken two days later โฆ first broke the 12-year-old school record at the Pac-12 Championships, taking second-place in 9:38.84 in just third career steeple โฆ also took fourth in the 5,000-meters at Pac-12s in a PR of 15:46.12 โฆ moved through NCAA Prelims in the steeple by winning her quarterfinal heat in a time of 9:47.38 โฆ third in the steeplechase at the West Coast Relays in 9:49.79 โฆ first steeple came at the Stanford Invitational, winning in a solo effort of 10:00.29 โฆ broke the Meet Record at the UW-WSU Dual, winning the 1,500m in 4:17.63 โฆ opened outdoor season with a 1,500m time of 4:16.87 at the Raleigh Relays โฆ indoors, earned First Team All-America honors once more in the mile, taking eighth in the NCAA Indoor Championships final with a time of 4:39.67 โฆ qualified for NCAAs with a season-best mile of 4:38.15 at the Husky Classicย โฆ an Academic All-American for the second year in a row, taking First Team honors from CoSIDA ... made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
2019-20 (Indoor Track; Outdoor Season Canceled): Added two more All-America honors to her lengthy list of achievements, earning the honor for the 3,000-meters and the distance medley relay โฆ raced just four times indoors but made them all count โฆ ran the No. 2 time in school history in the 3,000-meters, less than a second from the school record, going 8:56.24 at the Husky Classic for fifth-place โฆ anchored the DMR to an NCAA-qualifying time of 10:56.23, also the second-fastest in school history, to take second at the UW Invitational โฆ qualified for NCAA Indoors in the 3k and DMR but did not get to compete as the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 โฆ ran a rarely contested indoor 1,500-meters at the BU Last Chance Qualifier and ran a time of 4:12.71 โฆ first race of the season was a 3k at the UW Indoor Preview where she ran 9:01.88 โฆ earned her first career Academic All-America honor, named to the Second Team by CoSIDA โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll selection โฆ earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors ...ย (Cross Country): Ended her cross country career with a fourth All-America honor and finished top-10 at four of six races on the season โฆ at the NCAA Championships, placed 33rd overall in 20:41 for All-America honors, helping the team place 11th overall โฆ earned All-West Region honors with a sixth-place finish at Regionals, second among Huskies, in 20:05 โฆ led the Dawgs at the Pac-12 Championships with a fourth-place finish in 19:41, earning All-Pac-12 First Team, and helping UW take second as a team โฆ led UW to the big team victory at Pre-Nationals, taking sixth-place overall in 20:14 โฆ was second on the squad and 13th overall at the Joe Piane Invite โฆ the No. 2 scorer at the John McNichols Invite with an eighth-place finish โฆ named to the fall Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.
2018-19 (Track): Continued to add on to her All-America totals with two more during the indoor season, as she was seventh in the mile at NCAA Indoors and 12th in the 3,000-meters โฆ outdoors, posted the seventh-fastest 1,500m time in school history and was top-five in two events at the Pac-12 Championships โฆ just missed advancing to NCAA Outdoors by a fraction of a second, as she was 13th overall in the NCAA West Prelim quarterfinals at 1,500-meters in a time of 4:15.86 โฆ was fourth in the Pac-12 1,500-meter final in Tucson in a time of 4:18.39 and then doubled back to take fifth in the 5,000-meters in 16:07.43 โฆ continued to race after the collegiate season ended, running the 1,500-meters at the Music City Distance Carnival in 4:13.18 and then again at the Portland Track Festival in 4:13.15 โฆ won the Ken Shannon Invite 1,500-meters in 4:20.82 โฆ indoors, made the NCAA mile final and took seventh with a time of 4:39.05 for First Team All-America honors โฆ ran the 3k final shortly after the mile and placed 12th in 9:17.37 for Second Team All-America โฆ helped the DMR qualify for NCAA Indoors by running the opening 1,200-meter leg at the UW Invitational as the group ran 11:00.35 for the No. 3 time in school history โฆ ran a mile PR of 4:35.15 at the Last Chance Elite Meet to go to No. 4 in UW history โฆ ran her NCAA 3k qualifier at the Husky Classic, going 9:02.84, the third-fastest in school history โฆ also ran a 4:37.30 mile time at the UW Indoor Preview to kick off the track season and another time of 4:36.76 for fourth at the UW Invitational โฆ helped the DMR take third at the MPSF Championships ...ย (Cross Country): An outstanding first season as a Dawg as she earned her third-straight All-American honor in cross country, leading the Huskies to ninth-place at the NCAA Championships โฆ led UW in every race of the season, including NCAAs in Wisconsin, where she finished 19th overall in a time of 20:15 โฆ was ninth at the West Regional meet to earn All-West Region honors in a time of 19:40 โฆ finished 11th at the Pac-12 Championships to earn All-Pac-12 Second Team honors โฆ finished 10th at the Pre-Nationals meet in Wisconsin in 20:20 โฆ was the runner-up at the Stanford Invitational in her first real race effort as a Husky.
2017-18 (Track At Oregon): A late start to her track season but still advanced to the quarterfinals of the 1,500-meters at NCAA West Preliminaries ... fifth in the 1,500 meters (4:26.98) to score Oregon four points and placed eleventh in the 5,000 meters in 16:43.56 at the Pac-12 Championships ... ran the 1,500 meters in 4:23.03 at the Oregon Twilight ... (Cross Country At Oregon): An All-American and First Team All-Pac-12 selection who led the Ducks in every meet throughout the season, earning a top-five finish four times and a top-20 finish in every meet ... earned all-American honors with a 16th place finish at the NCAA Championships in 19:50.6, helping the Ducks to fifth as a team ... was the Ducks' first finisher and fifth overall finisher at the NCAA West Regional in 19:30 ... was the Pac-12 Cross Country runner-up just missing the win by a split second, finishing in 18:58 in Springfield, earning First Team All-Pac-12 honors for the second year in a row ... led the Ducks with an overall fourth place finish (19:42.02) at the Pre-Nationals Invitational ... dominated the Bell Dellinger Invitational, shattering the previous course record by 37 seconds with a time of 18:47.6 and leading the Ducks to a 1-2-3 finish.
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2016-17 (Track At Oregon): Three First Team All-America honors in her first track season, placing fourth in the NCAA 1,500-meter final outdoors, and indoors was third in the 3,000-meters and anchored the distance medley relay to third-place as well โฆ went on to compete at the 2017 USATF Outdoor Championships and made the 1,500-meter final, placing 10th in 4:12.64 as the second-highest collegiate finisher โฆ between NCAAs and USAs, ran at the Stumptown Twilight Meet and set a new 1,500mย PR of 4:09.08 to go to No. 5 all-time in the U.S. Junior rankings ... outdoors, advanced to the finals at the NCAA Championships in Eugene and took fourth with a time of 4:14.20, helping Oregon win the team title ... reached the final with a semifinal run of 4:19.21 in Eugene, and made it out of NCAA West Prelims with a 4:23.49 winning first round time and a fourth-place time of 4:28.74 in the quarters ... reached the podium twice at Pac-12s, taking second in the 1,500 meters in 4:23.07 and third in the 5,000 meters (16:13.53) for 14 team points ... took third-place and ran a then-PR in the 1,500 meters in 4:11.53 at the Oregon Twilight, the fourth-fastest time during the NCAA regular season โฆ previously lowered her 1,500m best to 4:13.25 at the Mt. SAC Relays ... a new 800-meter PR of 2:05.20 at the OSU High Performance Meet ... indoors, placed third in the 3,000m in 9:09.87 and anchored the third-place DMR team at the NCAA Indoor Championships which finished in 11:00.68 to two All-America honors and help Oregon win the team title ... anchored the DMR to a new collegiate record time of 10:48.77 at the Columbia East-West Challenge ... took over the NCAA lead and set a new personal record in the 3,000 meters of 9:01.21 at the Husky Classic ... won the MPSF Championship title in the mile and set a new personal record at 4:35.60 โฆ (Cross Country At Oregon): Led Oregon to the 2016 NCAA title with her fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships in 19:51.1, earning All-America status ... was the top freshman finisher at the national meet ... named a 2016 Honda Award finalist for cross country ... second for the Ducks and 11th overall at the NCAA West Regionals in 19:52 ... was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year after placing fifth overall at the Pac-12 Championships in Tucson with a time of 20:30, also earning First Team All-Pac-12 honors ... sixth overall and first among Ducks at the 2016 ISU Pre-Nationals with a time of 20:19 ... led UO and finished second overall in 19:42 in her Oregon debut at the Washington Invitational.
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High School and Personal:ย Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado ... parents are Lisa and Ellis Rainsbergerย ... has one older brother, Kris, and one younger brother, Ian, and one older sister, Meghan ... mother Lisa Larsen (Weidenbach) Rainsberger won the 1985 Boston Marathon, the last American woman to win the race until 2018 โฆ father played college football at Kansas State ... was the 2015 National Gatorade Cross Country Runner of the Year and was the Colorado Gatorade state winner for both track and field and cross county as a senior at Air Academy High School in 2015-16 โฆ won 10 state titles in cross country and track and field โฆ was undefeated at distance as a senior โฆ won the national title at the Nike Cross Nationals Final, breaking the tape in 16:56.8 โฆ was also the NXN Southwest Regional champion in a time of 17:07 after taking individual cross country medalist honors at the Class 4A state championships toย lead Air Academy to the 2015 state title โฆ set the course record of 17:39 at the state meet โฆ in track and field, swept the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meters at the 2016 Colorado state meet for the second straight season โฆ clocked the No. 6 all-time prep time in the 1,500 meters at the 2016 Portland Track Festival, where she ran 4:12.62 โฆ as a junior, won the state cross country title to earn her first Gatorade Colorado Cross Country Athlete of the Year award, and then on the track claimed state titles at 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meters โฆ also notched the No. 5 prep mile time (4:40.92) to earn 2015 Track and Field News All-America honors ... also played soccer up until junior year of high school.
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Major Meets
2016 Pac-12 XC โ 5th (1st UO)
2016 Regional XC โ 11th (1st UO)
2016 NCAA XC โ 4th (1st UO) (All-America)
2017 MPSF TF โ 1st, Mile (MPSF Champion)
2017 NCAA Indoors โ 3rd, 3000m (All-America First Team) | 3rd, DMR (All-America First Team)
2017 Pac-12 TF โ 2nd, 1500m | 3rd, 5000m
2017 NCAA Prelims TF โ 4th, 1500m
2017 NCAA Outdoors โ 4th, 1500m (All-America First Team)
2017 USA Outdoors โ 10th, 1500m
2017 Pac-12 XC โ 2nd (1st UO)
2017 Regional XC โ 5th (1st UO)
2017 NCAA XC โ 16th (1st UO) (All-America)
2018 Pac-12 TF โ 5th, 1500m | 11th, 5000m
2018 NCAA Prelims TF โ 18th, 1500m
2018 Pac-12 XC - 11th (1st UW)
2018 Regional XC - 9th (1st UW)
2018 NCAA XC - 19th (1st UW) (All-America)
2019 MPSF TF - 3rd, DMR
2019 NCAA Indoors - 7th, Mile (All-America First Team) | 12th, 3000mย (All-America Second Team)
2019 Pac-12 TF - 4th, 1500m | 5th, 5000m
2019 NCAA Prelims TF - 13th, 1500m
2019 Pac-12 XC - 4th (1st UW)
2019 Regional XC - 6th (2nd UW)
2019 NCAA XC - 33rd (2nd UW) (All-America)
2020 NCAA Indoors - 3000m Qualifier (All-America) | DMR Qualifier (All-America)
2021 NCAA Indoors - 8th, Mile (All-America First Team)
2021 Pac-12 TF - 2nd, 3000m Steeplechase | 4th, 5000m
2021 NCAA Prelims TF - 3rd, 3000m Steeplechase (1st in heat)
2021 NCAA Outdoors - 3rd, 3000m Steeplechase (All-America First Team)
2021 U.S. Olympic Trials - 10th, 3000m Steeplechase
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Outdoor Bests
800mโฆโฆ.2:05.20
1500mโฆโฆ.4:09.08
5000mโฆโฆ.15:46.12
3000m Steeplechase.......9:30.18ย (School Record)
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Indoor Bests
Mileโฆโฆ.4:35.15
3000mโฆโฆ.8:56.24
Academic Honors
2020-21 CosIDA Academic All-America First Team
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2019-20 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team
2020 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
2020 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2019 Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic XC
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic TF
2018 USTFCCCA All-Academic XC
2018 Pac-12 All-Academic TF 2nd Team
2017 Pac-12 All-Academic XC 2nd Team
Raising the Bar | Hana & Amanda Moll
Monday, August 04
Women's 1500m final - 2025 NCAA outdoor track and field championship
Sunday, June 15
Nathan Green | 2025 NCAA 1500m Champion
Saturday, June 14
Track & Field NCAA Championships | Huskies Highlights
Friday, June 13
