Nicole Blood
Position: Player
Height: 5-2
Year: Junior
High School/Other College: Royal
06/30/2006 - GoDucks.com
A rare breed of student-athlete who has won All-America honors for both her performance on the track and in the classroom. One of the nation’s top collegiate distance runners with a third place finish in the 5,000 meters at the 2008 NCAA Track & Field Championships and an eighth-place finish at the 2007 NCAA Cross Country Championships. A 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Competitor. PRs in both the 1,500 meters (4:14.73) and 5,000 meters (15:43.82) rank fourth all-time at Oregon. Indoors, ran the second-fastest 3,000 meters (9:08.44) in school history. A 2008 ESPN the Magazine third team Academic All-America selection.
2007: Two-time All-American (Cross Country, 5,000 meters). Scored UO’s highest NCAA cross country finish (eighth, 20:18) since 1991. Paired with Alexandra Kosinski (13th) in NCAA finale to give UO its first pair of All-America honorees since ’97. Also led UO in the West Regional (second, 20:06). Placed fourth in the Pac-10 meet (20:08). Won the Bill Dellinger Invitational, running 20:04. Pac-10 All-Academic Cross Country Honorable Mention selection.
2006-07: NCAA Qualifier (5,000m). Outdoors on track, made NCAA Championships debut in the 5,000m final and was the top freshman. Ran 5,000m personal best in West Regional to finish third. Ran a season best to score in the 1,500m at the Pac-10 Championships. Indoors, was an NCAA provisional qualifier in both the mile and 3,000m. Ran 1,600m anchor leg on indoor distance medley relay that won the Mountain Pacific Championships in a time that ranks second in UO history. Raced twice for Oregon in cross country in West Regional and Pac-10 Championships.
Prep: Ran in 2006 World Junior Cross Country Championships (39th, 21:28). Won three Foot Locker Northeast Regional titles. Won New York state titles as a junior, sophomore and freshman and broke the 2.5-mile Van Cortlandt Park course record as a junior (13:57). On the track, led the nation as a junior in the 3,000m (9:29.44) and 5,000m (16:30.90). Won New York state titles in the 3,000m in ’04 (9:24.03) and ’03 (9:46.18). Won the 2005 USA Junior Championships 5,000m and later finished second in the Pan-American Junior Championships.
Personal: Pre-journalism major.
Personal Bests
800m – Outdoors - 2:11.76, 2005 (Prep)
1,500m – Outdoors - 4:24.21, 2004 (Prep)
Mile – Indoors – 4:46.13 2004, (Prep)
Mile – Outdoors - 4:42.4 2004, (Prep)
3,000m – Indoors – 9:29.87, Mountain Pacific Championships, Seattle, Wash., 2/25/07
3,000m – Outdoors - 9:22.35 (2007), Pan Am Junior Championships, Fortaleza, Brazil, 7/6/07
5,000m – Outdoors - 16:19.15, West Regional, Eugene, Ore., 5/25/07
NCAA Championships Performances
2007 – 5,000m, 15th, 16:50.00 (16:23.73-prelim)
Regional Championships Performances
2007 – 5,000m, 3rd, 16:19.15
Pac-10 Championships Performances
2007 – 1,500m – 6th, 4:25.24 (4:32.79-prelim)
Top Collegiate Performances
5,000 meters - Outdoors
16:19.15, 3rd, NCAA West Regional, Eugene, Ore., 5/25/07
16:23.73, 8th-p, NCAA Championships, Sacramento, Calif., 6/6/07
16:27.41, 8th, Cardinal Invitational, Stanford, Calif., 4/29/07
16:39.89, 1st, Pepsi Team Invitational, Eugene, Ore., 4/7/07
Courtesy Oregon
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