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Meg Westerheide Season 2017

Pos.DISTANCE
YearRedshirt Junior
HometownFort Loramie, Ohio
QUICK NOTES: Has run five different individual events and ranks among the program’s all-time Top 10 in all five… ranks second in program history in both the indoor mile (5:00.32) and the outdoor 1,500m (4:31.71)… also ranks fourth in both the indoor 800m (2:12.87) and 1,000m (2:59.04) while ranking ninth in the outdoor 800m (2:12.48)… is one of only two women in UC history to hold marks currently ranking in the program’s all-time Top 10 in both 800m runs, the indoor mile and the outdoor 1,500m run, joining current teammate Alexis Anton on that list… on the indoor relay list, has anchored three DMR teams to Top 6 marks, including #2, #5 and #6, while helping the outdoor DMR (2016) and outdoor 4x1500m (2017) to school record times.
 
2016-17 SEASONS
2017 OUT (JR): Had one of the top distance seasons in recent years for the Bearcats as she placed fourth overall in the 1,500m run at the American Outdoor Championships, finishing in 4:31.71, the second-fastest time in UC history… the five points she scored are the most for a UC woman in any event 800m through 10,000m since UC joined the AAC (2014) and just the second time UC has scored in that event range in AAC history… her finals time at the AAC meet also lowered her PR from 2016 by nearly six seconds and made her just the second UC woman to run the event under 4:33… lowered her PR in the final five races she ran… also ran a PR of 2:12.48 in the 800m run, giving her the ninth-fastest time in UC history… she is now one of only three women to have her name on both the 800m and 1,500m outdoor charts in program history… opened the year running 2:12.70 at the Tiger Track Classic and missed the UC Top 10 by 0.16 seconds… anchored the 4x1500m relay team to a school-record time of 19:12.58… marks the second year in a row she anchored a relay team to a school record after helping the outdoor DMR to the top mark in 2016.
2017 IN (SO*): Plastered her name in the record books in several categories as she moved up to #2 in the mile (5:00.32) and #4 in the 800m (2:12.87)… recorded both times at the Music City Challenge in Nashville as she just missed becoming the second UC woman to break 5 minutes in the mile before comping back and running a PR in the 800m run later that day… competed in the 800m run at the American Indoor Championships and placed ninth overall, missing the final by one spot… scored in the conference meet by anchoring the DMR to a seventh-place showing with a time of 11:56.78, the fifth-fastest in UC history… also anchored the team to a time of 11:57.87 at the Charlie Thomas Invitational which, at the time, was the fifth-fastest in school history.
2016 XC (SO*): Ran in all seven meets in her first cross country campaign with the Bearcats… placed second or third among her teammates in four races, including third among Bearcats at the American Athletic meet and second at the NCAA Great Lakes Region… ran sub-23 minutes in the final two races of the year and placed 43rd at the conference meet to help UC to its best team finish since 2004… placed ninth overall at the Friendship Invitational to help UC to runner-up honors… added Top 50 finishes at the Queen City Invitational (39th) and All-Ohio Championships (42nd).
 
2015-16 SEASONS
2016 OUT (SO)
: Advanced to the finals of the 1,500m run at the American Outdoor Championships where she placed 12th… her preliminary round time of 4:37.15 was  PR and the #4 time in program history… won the event at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational as well… ran 2:12.71 at the Tiger Track Classic for the #11 time in UC history in the 800m… ran the anchor leg on two school-record relays… first, helped the 4x1,500m relay to a time of 19:16.04 at the Raleigh Relays before joining the distance medley relay at the Penn Relays that ran 11:53.49… the 4x,1500m relay time was a record by nearly 54 seconds… capped the year earning American Athletic Conference All-Academic honors.
2016 IN (FR*): Anchored the distance medley relay team to a time of 11:54.53 and fifth place in the American Indoor Championships… that time ranks as the second-fastest in school history… individually, turned in a pair of Top 5 times on back-to-back days, first running the #4 1,000m time in 2:59.07 at the SPIRE DI Invitational before coming back on Day 2 of the meet to run the #5 mile time in UC history at 5:05.34… her mile PR was an improvement of over 17 seconds from one month earlier… also raced twice in the 800m.

2014-15 SEASONS
2015 OUT (FR)
: Competed in three meets, running the 800m twice and the 1,500m twice… finished sixth in the 800m at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational with a 13th-place finish in the 1,500m… bettered the times in those races the next time on the track, finishing 14th (4:51.34) in the 1,500m run at the Miami Invitational before taking 13th (2:17.16) in the 800m at the Kentucky Relays.
2015 IN (FR): Redshirted.

High School: Three-time State qualifier in the 800m run... garnered Top 5 finishes all three years at the Ohio D3 State Championships in the 800m... had back-to-back runner-up finishes in the 800m at the state meet... won all but two 800m runs her senior season... three-time qualifier for the Ohio State Cross Country Championships... finished Top 25 each season.
 
Personal Bests – Indoor:
800m – 2:12.87 (Music City Challenge – 2/11/17) – UC #4
1,000m – 2:59.04 (SPIRE DI Invitational – 2/12/16) – UC #4
Mile – 5:00.32 (Music City Challenge – 2/11/17) – UC #2

Personal Bests – Outdoor:
800m – 2:12.48 (Lyles/Wood Invitational – 4/29/17) – UC #9
1,500m – 4:31.71 (American Outdoor Championships – 5/14/17) – UC #2

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