Athletic Accolades
Member of school outdoor record-holding DMR squad (11.34.28)
Academic Achievements
Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic selection
Three-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar
Four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection
Four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete
PRs
1500m – 4:38.62
Mile – 5:00.24
3000m – 9:40.07
3000m steeplechase – 10:48.63
5000m – 16:42.36
10000m – 34:38.00
2015 Outdoor (Senior) Competed in the 10,000-meter run (13th) and 5,000-meter run (17th) at the Big Ten championships … eighth place in the 10k at the Drake Relays … 10th in the 1500 and 13th in the 3000 at the FSU Relays … also competed at the Virginia Challenge.
2015 Indoor (Senior) Did not compete
2014 Outdoor (Junior) Represented OSU in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA East Prelims … competed in the 10,000-meter run, placing eighth in a PR of 34:38.06, and the 5000-meter, placing 13th in a season-best time of 16:45.02, at the Big Ten championships … competed in the 3000-meter run at the LSU Battle of the Bayou, finishing first in a season-best time of 9:43.60 … finished 10th in the 5000-meter run at the Jesse Owens Track Classic … competed in the 10,000-meter run, placing second, at the Drake Relays.
2014 Indoor (Junior) Competed in the 5000-meter run at the Big Ten championships … first place in the distance medley and in the one-mile run at the Ohio State Buckeye Classic … eighth place in the 3,000m run at the Gladstein Invitational … competed at the 2014 Armory Collegiate Invitational, taking eighth in the mile (PR of 5:00.24) and fourth in the 3000-meter run (season-best 9:40.88) … ran in the 5000 at the SPIRE NCAA D-1 Invitational and finished fourth.
2013 Outdoor (Sophomore) Competed in the 10000m at the NCAA East Preliminaries … represented the Buckeyes in the 5000m (PR of 16:42.36) and 10000m at the Big Ten championships … member of school outdoor record-holding DMR squad with a time of 11:34.28 at the Drake Relays … first in both the 3000m and 5000m at the Toledo Collegiate Challenge … first in the 3000m and third in the 1500m at the Ohio Open … second in the 10000m at the All-Ohio championships (PR of 34:56.27) … runner-up in the 5000m and sixth in the 1500m at the Shamrock Invitational … fourth in the 3000m and sixth in the 1500m at the Jim Click Shootout.
2013 Indoor (Sophomore) Represented the Buckeyes in the 3000m and 5000m at the Big Ten championships … helped Ohio State to a runner-up finish in the DMR at the Kentucky Rod McCravy Memorial Meet … finished first in the 3000m at the Buckeye Classic and at the Armory Collegiate Invitational (PR of 9:40.07)… runner-up in the mile at the Buckeye Tune-Up.
2012 Outdoor (Freshman) Took 20th in the steeplechase in 10:49.54 at the Big Ten championships … won the steeplechase at the Toledo Invitational in a season-best time of 10:48.63 … third in the steeplechase at the All-Ohio Championships … fourth in the steeplechase at the Jim Click Shootout … ran a time of 4:43.74 in the 1500m run at the UCF Invitational for sixth.
2012 Indoor (Freshman) Sixth in the mile run at the Buckeye Tune-up with a season-best time of 5:14.07 … ran the 5000m run at the SPIRE Invitational for 15th … eighth in the 3000m run in the Dual vs. Michigan … fifth in the mile run in 5:25.06 at the Buckeye Classic.
Glen Este High School Two-time indoor and outdoor state champion in the 3200m … 2010 indoor state champion in the 1600 … cross country state champion in 2010 … two-time Nike national qualifier … Gatorade Cross Country Runner of the Year for Ohio in 2010 … placed first overall atthe 2010 Mideast Cross Country Meet of Champions.
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Michelle Thomas |
