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Emma Hensley Season 2018

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YearRedshirt Junior
HometownBeavercreek, Ohio

2017-18 SEASONS
2018 OUT (SO*): Did not compete… earned AAC All-Academic honors.
2018 IN (SO*): Raced once on the season, clocking at time of 11:02.68 in the 3,000m run at the Music City Challenge.
2017 XC (JR): Raced three times on the year… was the team’s eighth finisher in her first two races of the year (NCAA Pre-Nationals and AAC Championships)… also ran in the NCAA Great Lakes Region meet.
 
2016-17 SEASONS
2017 OUT (SO): Redshirted… earned AAC All-Academic honors.
2017 IN (FR*): Competed in a trio of meets, the first of her indoor career with the Bearcats… ran a best of 10:30.42 in the 3,000m run at the Buckeye Tune-Up, lowering her PR by five seconds in the process… also competed once in the 5,000m run, posting a time of 18:16.84.
2016 XC (SO): Ran in 6-of-7 meets on the season, finishing among the team’s Top 3 in five of those meets… was the top UC finisher in the open division of the All-Ohio Championships after placing eighth overall… second on the team at the American Athletic Conference Championships after finishing 42nd overall to help the team to its best finish since 2004… was third on the team at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational and the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships… lowered her time in all four of the 6,000m races she entered, breaking 23-minutes at both the conference and regional meets.
 
2015-16 SEASONS
2016 OUT (FR): Raced three times on the season, including twice in the 5,000m and once at 3,000m… finished a season-best sixth at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational in 5,000m before closing the year in the same event at the RedHawk Invitational with a PR of 17:58.76, a 40-second improvement from her first run… capped the year earning American Athletic Conference All-Academic honors.
2016 IN (FR): Redshirted.
2015 XC (FR): Competed in five events in her first season at UC… was the team’s fourth finisher at the American Conference Championships.

PRIOR TO UC: A 2015 graduate of Beavercreek High School (Beavercreek, Ohio)… one of Ohio’s top distance runners… four-time qualifier for the Ohio State Cross Country Championships… finished 33rd at state in 2014… four-time participant in the Nike Cross Midwest Regional.
 


PERSONAL BEST MARKS
Cross Country
5,000m • 19:21.9 (Friendship Invitational • 9/17/16)
6,000m • 22:28.0 (NCAA Great Lakes Region • 11/11/16)
 
Indoor Track & Field
3,000m • 10:30.42 (Buckeye Tune-Up • 2/17/17)
5,000m • 18:16.84 (Music City Challenge • 2/10/17)

Outdoor Track & Field
3,000m • 10:30.39 (Lyle/Wood Invitational • 4/23/16)
5,000m • 17:58.76 (RedHawk Invitational • 4/30/16)

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Junior
2017

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Sophomore
2016

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Freshman
2015

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