Alexi Pappas
Position: Distance
Height: 5'5"
Year: Redshirt Senior
Hometown: Alameda, Calif.
High School: Bishop O'Dowd, Oakland
Other College: Dartmouth
Experience: Transfer
National third place finisher in the 3,000 meter steeplechase at the 2012 NCAA Championships comes to Oregon as a Dartmouth graduate with one season of cross country and one season of indoor track and field remaining. A two-time NCAA all-American. One of nine finalists for the 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year award.
Before Oregon: Was third in the steeplechase at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor meet in 10:01.20, earning all-America honors. Has a personal-best in the event of 9:55.89, a Dartmouth school record, from the 2012 NCAA East Preliminary Rounds. She also won the that season's Ivy League title in the steeplechase (9:58.80) and qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene. Ran the lead leg on Dartmouth's third place distance medley relay squad (11:06.29) at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships. Was also a three-year member of the cross country team. Dartmouth Bests: 1,500 Meters - 4:18.41, 2012; Mile - 4:44.56, 2012, 3,000 Meters - 9:14.75, 2012; 3,000 Meter Steeplechase - 9:55.89, 2011.
Prep: Is a graduate of Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., where she lettered in cross country and track and field for three years, and soccer for two. Served as captain of her soccer and cross country teams her senior year. From 2005-2007, won six Hayward Area Athletic League Championships (HAAL), two cross country, three track and soccer. Was vice president of her sophomore, junior and senior classes at Bishop O'Dowd, and was the recipient of the President's Education Award, as well as the Campus Ministry Award.
Personal: Aspiring filmmaker will pursue a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies at Oregon, focusing on film, English, and entrepreneurial business. Grandfather, Jerome North, played basketball at New York University in the mid 1940's.
Personal Bests
1,500 Meters - 4:18.41,
New Balance Boston Twilight Meet,
Waltham, Mass., 5/12/12
3,000 Meter Steeplechase - 9:55.89,
NCAA East Preliminary Rounds,
Jacksonville, Fla., 9/25/12
Mile - 4:44.56 (i),
Dartmouth-Columbia-Yale Meet,
Hanover, N.H., 1/21/12
3,000 Meters - 9:14.75 (i),
Terrier Classic,
Boston, Mass., 1/28/12
Courtesy Oregon
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Give a Rouse: Meet Alexi Pappas, Dartmouth Class of 2012
Alexi Pappas ’12 has two reasons to head for Oregon after graduation. She will be competing in the three-kilometer steeplechase Olympic Trials in Eugene in late June, and she has just learned of her acceptance into the University of Oregon’s Interdisciplinary Studies Individualized Program—a create-your-own master’s program, as she describes it.
http://now.dartmouth.edu/2012/06/give-a-rouse-alexi-pappas-dartmouth-class-of-2012/
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Alexi Pappas
Position: Distance
Year: Senior
Hometown: Alameda, Calif.
High School: Bishop O'Dowd
Junior (2010-11): Qualified for the NCAA East Regional in the 3,000-meter steeplechase ... took second at Outdoor Heps in the steeplechase with a school-record time of 10:25.82 ... in cross country, she placed 34th at the New England Championship.
Before Dartmouth: Pappas is a graduate of Bishop O'Dowd High School where she lettered in cross country and track and field for three years, and soccer for two ... served as captain of her soccer and cross country teams her senior year ... from 2005-2007, she won six Hayward Area Athletic League Championships (HAAL)- two with her cross country team, three with her track team, and one with her soccer team ... individually, Pappas earned a number of awards including being a two-time HAAL First Team All-League and a First Team All-Northern California performer in cross country, and a three-time HALL All-League performer in track and field ... was vice president of her sophomore, junior and senior classes at Bishop O'Dowd, and was the recipient of the President's Education Award, as well as the Campus Ministry Award.
Personal: Alexi is the daughter of John Pappas and has one brother ... her grandfather, Jerome North, played basketball at NYU in the mid 1940's ... after Dartmouth, Alexi is interested in joining the Peace Corps.
2011-12 Indoor Outdoor
Mile 4:44.56 (C-Y - 1/21/12)
3K 9:14.75 (Terrier - 1/28/12) 9:25.63 (Heps - 5/6/12)
SC 9:58.07 (Mt. Sac - 4/19/12)
1500m 4:18.41 (Twilight - )
2010-11 Highs
Indoor Outdoor
Mile: 4:54.77 (Val Classic - 2-11-11) 1500m: 4:28.11 (Larry Ellis - 4-22-11)
3K: 9:59.50 (Terrier - 1-28-11) Steeple: 10:25.82 (Heps - 5-8-11)
2010-11 Relays
Outdoor: Walsh, Imhof, Pappas & Vailas
4X1500: 18:28.52
2009-10 Highs
Outdoor Indoor
1500m: 4:39.6m (Yale) (4/26/10)
800m: 2:16.10 (Princeton-LE)
2008-09 Highs
Outdoor Indoor
1500m: 5:06.48 UMass Mile: 5:50.41 Dart. Invite
800m: 2:18.75 Dart. Invite 1000m: 3:10.50 UVM/UNH
800m: 2:23.49 Val. Invite
Courtesy Dartmouth
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Athlete Name: Alexi Pappas
School Name: Bishop O'Dowd ( OAKLAND, CA)
Class: 2008
2005 OutdoorDate Event Performance Notes Meet
2005-05-28 G-1600 4:57.54 US#64 CA#18 Sec NCS Champs (#4)
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