CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Cross Country:

Awards:

- All-Big Sky (9th in 2018)
- Five-time Academic All-Big Sky (2015-18, 2020)

All-time PSU rankings:

- Broke the school record in the 4,000 meters - 14:08.8 - Viking 'Rust-Buster' (9/1/18)
- Ranks 2nd all-time in the 5,000 meters - 16:58.7 - Big Sky Championships (10/27/18)
- Ranks 2nd all-time in the 6,000 meters - 20:48.4 - NCAA West Regional (11/9/18)
- Ranks 5th all-time in 5,000-meter races run at 4,000 feet of elevation or above - 18:05.2 - Big Sky Championships (10/28/17)
- Ranks 10th all-time in 5,000-meter races run at 2,000 feet of elevation or above - 18:05.2 - Big Sky Championships (10/28/17)

Indoor:

Awards:

- Five-time Academic All-Big Sky (2016, 2018-21)

All-time PSU rankings:

- Broke the school record in the 5,000 meters - 16:33.38 - UW Invitational (1/25/19)
- Ranks 3rd all-time in the 3,000 meters - 9:42.58 - UW Indoor Preview (1/18/20)
- Part of 7th-ranked Distance Medley Relay team - 12:25.97 - Big Sky Championships (2/26/16)
- Ranks 10th all-time in the mile - 5:04.55 - Vandal Invitational and Multi Events (1/13/18)

Outdoor:

Awards:

- Big Sky Women's Track Athlete of the Week (4/1/19)
- Five-time Academic All-Big Sky (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
- Three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Honoree (2019, 2020, 2021)

NCAA Qualifications:

- Two-time NCAA West Prelims qualifier in the 10,000m (2019)

All-time PSU rankings:

- Ranks 2nd all-time in the 10,000 meters - 33:55.99 - Hayward Premiere (4/2/21)
- Ranks 6th all-time in the 5,000 meters - 16:47.04 - Bryan Clay Invitational (4/19/18)
- Ranks 7th all-time in the 1,500 meters - 4:31.67 - OSU High Performance Meet (4/30/21)
- Ranks 7th all-time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase - 11:22.05 - Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open (3/19/16)
 

PERSONAL BESTS:

Cross Country:

4,000m - 14:08.8 - Viking 'Rust-Buster (9/1/18)
3 Miles - 18:05.1 - John Frank Oregon State Invitational (9/3/16)
5,000m - 16:58.7 - Big Sky Championships (10/27/18)
6,000m - 20:48.4 - NCAA West Regional (11/9/18)

Indoor:

Mile - 5:04.55 - Vandal Invitational and Multi Events (1/13/18)
3,000m - 9:42.58 - UW Indoor Preview (1/18/20)
5,000m - 16:33.38 - UW Invitational (1/25/19)

Outdoor:

1,500m - 4:31.67 - OSU High Performance Meet (4/30/21)
5,000m - 16:47.04 - Bryan Clay Invitational (4/19/18)
10,000m - 33:55.99 - Hayward Premiere (4/2/21)
3,000m Steeplechase - 11:22.05 - Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open (3/19/16)
 

2021 OUTDOOR:

Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the 10,000m, making her only the second Viking to qualify twice at the distance...Finished 39th in the 10k while running in 36:53.29 at the NCAA West Prelims (5/27-29)...Placed 13th in the finals of the 1,500 meters at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships (5/14-15), finishing in 4:41.39...Moved up to seventh all-time in the 1,500 meters while setting a new personal best of 4:31.67 at the OSU High Performance Meet (4/30-5/1)...Shaved eight seconds off her seasonal best in the 5k while finishing in 17:01.11 at the Oregon Relays (4/23-24)...Became just the second Viking ever to crack 34 minutes in the 10,000 meters while finishing in 33:55.99 at the Hayward Premiere (4/2)...Came within four and a half seconds of the school record that 11x NCAA D2 All-American Debbie Myra set at 33:51.40 in 1987 with her time at the Hayward Premiere...Won the 5,000 meters by 35 seconds at the OSU PNW Team Clash, finishing in 17:09.44 to open her outdoor season.
 

2020 INDOOR:

Matched the highest finish ever by a Viking in the 5k at the Big Sky Indoor Championships (2/27-29), finishing fourth in 17:25.08...Also ran the 3k at the Big Sky Indoor meet, placing 10th in 10:03.89...Came within four seconds of her own school record in the 5,000 meters while finishing in 16:36.74 at the Husky Classic (2/14-15)...Opened her season with a 10-second personal best in the 3,000 meters, finishing in 9:42.58 at the UW Indoor Preview (1/18).
 

2019 OUTDOOR:

Ran the 5,000 meters in 17:05.72 at the Portland Track Festival (6/8-9)...Tied the highest finish ever by a Viking in the 10k at the NCAA West Prelims (5/23-25), placing 21st in 34:35.87...NCAA West Prelims qualifier in the 10,000 meters...Just missed scoring for the Vikings at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships (5/8-11), placing ninth in the 5,000 meters in 17:29.63...Placed ninth in the top section of the 1,500 meters at the OSU High Performance meet (4/26-27), finishing in 4:32.09...Shaved close to six seconds off her seasonal best in the 5,000 meters while finishing in 16:52.79 at the Bryan Clay Invitational (4/17-19)...Named Big Sky Athlete of the Week after moving up to third all time in the 10,000 meters with a time of 34:12.51 at the Stanford Invitational (3/29)...Shaved more than 70 seconds off her personal best in the 10k with her finish at the Stanford Invitational...Placed second in the 5,000 meters while finishing in 16:58.48 at the L&C Spring Break Open (3/16).
 

2019 INDOOR:

Scored for the Vikings with a sixth-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the Big Sky Indoor Championships (2/21-23), crossing the line in 17:35.12...Also competed in the 3,000 meters at the Big Sky meet, finishing 14th in 10:14.81...Shaved 20 seconds off her own school record in the 5,000 meters while finishing in 16:33.38 at the UW Invitational (1/25-26)...Placed second in the 3,000 meters in 10:09.27 at the season-opening Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open and Multi Events (1/12).
 

2018 CROSS COUNTRY:

Earned All-Big Sky honors with a ninth-place finish at the Big Sky Championships (10/27)...Cracked 17 minutes in the 5k while finishing in 16:58.7 at the Big Sky Championships, making her just the second Viking to ever dip below 17 minutes in the cross country 5k...Led the Vikings at four of the six meets at which she competed during the season, including the Big Sky meet...Recorded four top 10 finishes during the season...Became just the third Viking women's runner to ever crack the top 40 at the NCAA West Regional (11/9), finishing 40th in 20:48.4...Her time at the NCAA West Regional was below the school record in the 6k coming into the meet, but she ended up second all time in the 6k after teammate Sarah Medved finished in 20:48.1 at the same meet...Medved and Gibson became the first pair of teammates to finish in the top 10 together at the Big Sky meet, and also became the first teammates to finish in the top 40 together at the NCAA West Regional...Broke the school record in the 4k at the team's season-opening meet, the Viking 'Rust-Buster' (9/1), while finishing third overall in 14:08.8...Placed fourth overall at the Cougar Classic (9/14), where she helped lead the Vikings to their first-ever team win at a meet hosted by a Pac-12 school.
 

Date	Meet (Distance)	PSU Finish	Overall Finish	Time
9/1	Viking 'Rust-Buster' (4k)	1st	3rd	14:08.8
9/14	Cougar Classic (6k)	2nd	4th	21:06
9/29	Charles Bowles Invitational (5k)	1st	8th	17:25.6
10/13	Pre-Nationals (6k)	1st	76th	21:27.8
10/27	Big Sky Championships (5k)	1st	9th	16:58.7
11/9	NCAA West Regional (6k)	2nd	40th	20:48.4

 

2018 OUTDOOR:

Scored for the Vikings with a fifth-place finish in the 10,000 meters at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships (5/8-11)...Moved up to fifth all time in the 10,000 meters after finishing in 35:24.64 at the Big Sky meet...Knocked 10 seconds off her personal best in the 1,500 meters while moving up to eighth all time in the event with her finish in 4:31.96 at the OSU High Performance Meet (4/27-28)...Shaved 36 seconds off his personal best in the 5,000 meters with her finish in 16:47.04 at the Bryan Clay Invite (4/18-19)...Ran the 5,000 meters in 17:24.46 at the SF State Distance Carnival (3/30-31)...Set a new personal best in the 1,500 meters at the L&C Spring Break Open (3/16-17), finishing in 4:41.36.
 

2018 INDOOR:

Scored for the Vikings with a seventh-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the Big Sky Indoor Championships (2/22-24), crossing the line in 18:01.55...Also ran the 3,000 meters at the Big Sky meet, and placed 17th in 10:32.46...Shaved more than 35 seconds off her personal best in the 3,000 meters while moving up to third all time at Portland State in the event with her finish in 9:52.40 at the UW Indoor Open (2/11)...Broke the school record in the 5,000 meters with her finish in 16:53.60 at the UW Invitational (1/26-27)...Moved up to 10th all time in the indoor mile while finishing in 5:04.55 at the Vandal Invitational and Multi Events (1/13/18).
 

2017 CROSS COUNTRY:

Led the Vikings at all five meets at which she competed...Moved up to fourth all time in the 6k with a personal-best finish of 21:09.9 at the NCAA West Regional (11/10)...Placed 76th overall at the NCAA West Regional - a personal-best finish at the meet by 17 places...Placed 19th at the Big Sky Championships, another personal-best finish at the meet by 14 places...Ran the fifth-best 5k time set at 4,000 feet of elevation or above while finishing in 18:05.2 at the Big Sky Championships in Ogden, Utah...Moved up to eighth all time in the 5k with a personal-best finish of 17:43.5 at the Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational (9/30)...Placed second overall at the Charles Bowles Willamette Invite, her highest individual finish ever at a meet.
 

Date	Meet (Distance)	PSU Finish	Overall Finish	Time
9/16	Sundodger Invitational (6k)	1st	30th	22:05.88
9/30	Charles Bowles Willamette Invitational (5k)	1st	2nd	17:43.5
10/14	Bronco Invitational (6k)	1st	38th	21:23.3
10/28	Big Sky Championships (5k)	1st	19th	18:05.2
11/10	NCAA West Regional (6k)	1st	76th	21:09.9

 

2017 OUTDOOR:

Placed 23rd in the 5,000 meters at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships (5/10-13), finishing in 17:59.57...Knocked 25 seconds off her PR in the 5,000 meters with her finish in 17:23.32 at the OSU High Performance Meet (4/28-29)...Shaved close to nine seconds off her personal best in the 1,500 meters while finishing in 4:42.80 at the Triton Invitational (4/22)...Ran her first 1,500 meters as a Viking at the John Knight Twilight (4/7), finishing in 4:53.27...Made her seasonal debut at the Bob Larsen Distance Carnival (3/31) while shaving 50 seconds off her personal best in the 5,000 meters with her finish in 17:48.92.
 

2017 INDOOR:

Did not compete during the season.
 

2016 CROSS COUNTRY:

Finished in the Vikings' top five at all six meets of the season...Led the Vikings at the season-opening John Frank Oregon State Invitational (9/3)...Set a personal best with her time of 18:05.1 over the three-mile John Frank OSU Invite...Placed as the Vikings' second runner at the Big Sky Championships (10/28).
 

Date	Meet (Distance)	PSU Finish	Overall Finish	Time
9/3	John Frank Oregon State Invitational (3 Miles)	1st	14th	18:05.1
9/17	Sundodger Invitational (6k)	2nd	22nd	22:15.20
10/1	Charles Bowles Invitational (5k)	3rd	15th	18:25.1
10/15	Bronco Invitational (6k)	5th	86th	22:17.6
10/28	Big Sky Championships (5k)	2nd	33rd	18:42
11/11	NCAA West Regional (6k)	4th	198th	23:10.1

 

2016 OUTDOOR:

Ran the 5,000 meters in 18:39.11 at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival (4/1)...Won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open (3/19), finishing in 11:22.05...Moved up to third all-time in the steeplechase at Portland State with her time at Lewis & Clark.
 

2016 INDOOR:

Scored for the Vikings as a member of the team’s Distance Medley Relay that placed eighth at the Big Sky Championships (2/25-27) in 12:25.97...Moved up to seventh all-time in the DMR with her team’s time at the Big Sky meet...Set a new personal best in the mile at the UW Open (2/14), finishing in 5:05.60...Ran in the 3,000 meters for the first time at PSU at the Portland Indoor Invitational (2/4), finishing in 10:27.60...Made her PSU debut at the Bronco Invitational (1/23), finishing the mile in 5:19.19.
 

2015 CROSS COUNTRY:

Placed in the Vikings' top five at all six meet in which she competed...Earned her first top 10 finish as a Viking at the Emerald City Open, finishing 10th overall in 22:56.3...Placed as the Vikings' third runner at the Big Sky Championships (10/31)...Finished as the Vikings' second runner at the NCAA West Regional...Set a 5K personal best at the Charles Bowles Invitational (10/3), finishing in 18:17.2...Set a 6K personal best at the Sundodger Invitational (9/19), finishing in 22:08.31.
 

Date	Meet (Distance)	PSU Finish	Overall Finish	Time
9/11	Bill Dellinger Invitational (6K)	4th	20th	23:02.59
9/19	Sundodger Invitational (6K)	3rd	31st	22:08.31
10/3	Charles Bowles Invitational (5K)	4th	18th	18:17.2
10/17	Emerald City Open (6K)	4th	10th	22:56.3
10/31	Big Sky Championships (5K)	3rd	37th	19:26.9
11/13	NCAA West Regional (6K)	2nd	93rd	22:17.3

 

SAN LORENZO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL:

Competed in cross country and track and field for three years…Played soccer for one season…Cross country and track and field team captian as a senior…Graduated with honors.
 

PERSONAL/MISCELLANEOUS:

Daughter of Grace Coulson and Bill Gibson…Has two brothers, Gavin and Brayden…Lists environmental sciences and reading as interests…Intends to major in health sciences...Plans to become an occupational therapist.