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PORTLAND STATE VIKINGS

2020 Track & Field Roster

Spencer Farrin
Spencer Farrin
Spencer Farrin

Delaney White

  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Santa Rosa HS
  • Hometown Santa Rosa, Calif.
  • Prev School Nevada

Biography

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Cross Country:

Awards:

- Academic All-Big Sky (2018)

All-time PSU rankings:

- Ranks 6th all time in the 6,000m - 21:08.0 - Bronco Invitational (10/19/19)
- Ranks 8th all time in the 4,000m - 14:42.2 - Viking Rust Buster (9/7/19)

Indoor:

All-time PSU rankings:

- Part of 9th-ranked Distance Medley Relay team - 12:30.73 - Big Sky Indoor Championships (2/22/19)
 

PERSONAL BESTS:

Cross Country:

4,000m - 14:42.2 - Viking Rust Buster (9/7/19)
5,000m - 17:51 - 2015 (PSU Best: 18:00.2 - Big Sky Championships, 10/27/18)
6,000m - 21:08.0 - Bronco Invitational (10/19/19)

Indoor:

Mile - 5:16.43 - Portland Indoor Three (2/23/20)
3,000m - 10:35.03 - Portland Indoor Two (2/9/20)

Outdoor:

1,500m - 4:51.86 - Linfield Open (5/4/19)
1,600m - 4:58 - 2016
3,200m - 10:41 - 2016
5,000m - 17:45.27 - West Coast Invitational (5/11/19)
 

2020 INDOOR:

Knocked a second off her personal best in the mile while finishing in 5:16.43 at the Portland Indoor Three (2/22-23)...Shaved three seconds off her personal best in the 3k while finishing in 10:35.03 at the Portland Indoor Two (2/8-9)...Knocked close to nine seconds off her personal best in the indoor mile while finishing in 5:17.75 at the Portland Indoor One (1/25-26)...Shaved 15 seconds off her indoor best in the 3,000 meters while opening her season with a time of 10:38.17 at the Vandal Open and Lauren McCluskey Multi (1/10-11).
 

2019 CROSS COUNTRY:

Finished as the Vikings' second runner at all six meets at which she competed...Moved up to to sixth all time in the 6k with her finish in 21:08.0 at the Bronco Invitational (10/19)...Moved up to eighth all time in the 4k with her finish in 14:42.2 at the Viking Rust Buster (9/7)...Recorded her first top-10 finish while placing fifth overall at the Charles Bowles Invitational (10/5)...Placed 72nd overall at the NCAA West Regional (11/15).
 

Date

Meet (Distance)

PSU Finish

Overall Finish

Time

9/7 Viking Rust Buster (4k) 2nd 18th 14:42.2
9/13 Cougar Classic (6k) 2nd 21st 22:10.2
10/5 Charles Bowles Invitational (5k) 2nd 5th 18:05.8
10/19 Bronco Invitational (6k) 2nd 32nd 21:08.0
11/2 Big Sky Championships (5k) 2nd 31st 19:29.6
11/15 NCAA West Regional (6k) 2nd 72nd 21:16.5
 

2019 OUTDOOR:

Shaved 20 seconds off her personal best in the 5,000 meters while finishing in 17:45.27 at the West Coast Invitational (5/11)...Knocked close to two seconds off her personal best in the 1,500 meters while finishing in 4:51.86 at the Linfield Open (5/4)...Shaved 19 seconds off her personal best in the 5,000 meters while finishing in 18:05.69 at the Beach Invitational (4/19)...Ran her first 1,500-meter race as a Viking at the Jay Hammer Invitational (4/13) and finished in 4:53.56...Shaved more than 10 seconds off her personal best in the 5,000 meters with a finish in 18:24.71 at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic (3/29).
 

2019 INDOOR:

Scored for the Vikings while running a leg of the team’s distance medley relay that placed eighth in 12:30.73 at the Big Sky Indoor Championships (2/21-23)...Moved up to ninth all time in the DMR with her team’s time at the Big Sky meet...Ran the mile in 5:26.86 at the D1 Invitational Team Challenge (2/1)...Made her indoor debut while running the 3,000 meters in 10:53.33 at the Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open and Multi Events (1/12).
 

2018 CROSS COUNTRY:

Recorded her best finish in the Vikings' lineup in the last race of the season, placing as the Vikings third runner and 105th overall at the NCAA West Regional (11/9)...Set a new 6k personal best with her finish in 21:40.5 at the NCAA West Regional...Shaved 19 seconds off her PSU best in the 5k while finishing in 18:00.2 at the Big Sky Championships (10/27)...Finished the 4k in 15:17.6 at the season-opening Viking 'Rust-Buster' (9/1).
 

Date

Meet (Distance)

PSU Finish

Overall Finish

Time

9/1 Viking 'Rust-Buster' (4k) 7th 20th 15:17.6
9/14 Cougar Classic (6k) 7th 26th 22:31
9/29 Charles Bowles Invitational (5k) 5th 36th 18:19.5
10/13 Pre-Nationals (6k) 5th 175th 22:33.8
10/27 Big Sky Championships (5k) 6th 42nd 18:00.2
11/9 NCAA West Regional (6k) 3rd 105th 21:40.5
 

BEFORE PORTLAND STATE:

Attended the University of Nevada, Reno during the 2016-17 school year…Named an All-Mountain West student-athlete following the 2016 cross country season...First four-time North Bay League cross country champion in high school, 2012-16…Placed 12th at the CIF cross country D1 state meet in 2015…Redwood Empire Scholar Athlete of the Year, 2016…Lettered in cross country and track & field during all four years of high school, 2012-16.
 

PERSONAL/MISCELLANEOUS:

Lists camping, backpacking, reading, baking and making awesome vision boards as hobbies/interests…Hopes to one day run professionally…Plans on majoring in political science with minors in gender studies and foreign policy.
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