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PORTLAND STATE VIKINGS

2023 Track & Field Roster

Cheyenne Abbett

  • Position Distances
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Estacada, Ore.
  • High School Estacada HS
  • Prev School Concordia (Ore.)
  • Connect Cheyenne Abbett

Biography

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Awards:

- Four-time Academic All-Big Sky (2x cross country; 1x indoor; 1x outdoor)
 

PERSONAL BESTS:

Cross Country:

5,000m – 20:03.3 – Charles Bowles Invitational (10/5/19)
6,000m – 24:01.5 – NCAA D2 West Regional (11/9/19)

Indoor:

Mile – 5:31.20 – Portland Indoor Two (2/9/20)
3,000m – 11:03.47 – GNAC Indoor Championships (2/21-22/20)

Outdoor:

800m – 2:58.43 – Pacific Open (4/1/23) 
1,500m – 5:16.79 – Portland Distance Carnival (5/14/22)
3,000m – 11:30.65 – Prep (2019)
 

2023 OUTDOOR:

Made her season debut at the Pacific Open (4/1), running the 800 meters in 2:58.43.
 

2022 CROSS COUNTRY:

Placed 176th overall at the L&C Invite (10/15), crossing the line in the 6k in 26:34.9...Finished 101st overall at the Charles Bowles Invitational (10/1), running the 5k in 21:21.2...Ran in her first cross country race as a Viking at the Viking Rust Buster (9/2), finishing the women's 5k 37th overall in 22:36.5.
 

2022 OUTDOOR:

Made her Viking debut at the Portland Distance Carnival (5/14), where she set a new personal best in the 1,500 meters with a finish in 5:16.79.
 

AT CONCORDIA (ORE.):

Competed at Concordia for the 2019-20 academic year…Ran the 3k at the GNAC Indoor Championships, placing 16th overall…Scored for the Cavaliers while placing seventh as a member of the team’s DMR team at the GNAC Indoor meet…Won a GNAC Indoor team title with the Cavaliers as a freshman (2020)…Named Concordia’s Cross Country Rookie of the Year in 2019.
 

ESTACADA HIGH SCHOOL:

First-team all-league in track & field as a senior (2019)…First-team all-league in cross country as a sophomore (2016)…Female Athlete of the Year as a senior (2019)…Second-team all-league in track & field as a sophomore (2017)…Second-team all-league in cross country as a senior (2018)…Won back-to-back league titles with her cross country team as a sophomore and junior (2016 & 2017).
 

PERSONAL/MISCELLANEOUS:

Daughter of Shawna and James…Has a brother, Sam…Made the Dean’s List while at Concordia in 2020…Valedictorian of her high school…Math Student of the Year at her high school as a senior (2019)…Student Government Student of the Year, 2019…Lists cooking and hiking as hobbies/interests…Hopes to work in sports marketing…Majoring in business administration: advertising management.

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