Gwen Stare Season 2025

TFRRS STATS

AWARDS & HONORS:
2023 Indoor AAC Conference Champion – DMR

2024-25 SEASONS
2025 OTF: Competed in six meets... At the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational, she clocked a personal best in the 800m (2:09.09) for a second-place finish... Notched a career best in the 1500m with a time of 4:23.31 to earn a 59th place finish... After registering a time of 2:11.49, she snagged fourth place in the 800m. 
2025 ITF: Competed in four meets… Put on a show at the Music City Challenge, she was victorious in the 800m after registering a time of 2:11.94 and ran a personal best time of 4:48.66 in the mile for an 11th place finish… At the Big 12 Championships, she brought home 12th place in the DMR thanks to a time of 11:45.39… Fourth place finish in the mile (4:51.58) at the Husker Invitational… With a time of 12:12.92 in the DMR at the Crossroads of America Invitational, she claimed fifth place.
2024 XC: Ran in six meets… Finished 11th in the 4k with a time of 14:42.7 at the Sam Bell Invitational… Ran a 20:53.3 in the 6k at the NCAA Great Lakes Region XC Championship. 

2023-24 SEASONS
2024 ITF:  Competed in five events… Placed second in the 600m at the Indiana Invitational, logging a personal best time of 1:35.49… Third place finish in the 1000m at the 2024 Rod McCraby Memorial Track & Field Meet with a personal best time of 2:53.96… Notched a career-best 4:56.00 mile at the Music City Challenge.
2024 OTF: Participated in five meets… Fourth place finish in the 800m at the 2024 Jim Click Shootout (2:14.77)… At the Clark Wood Open 2024, she finished seventh with a time of 2:13.60.
2023 XC:  Ran in five meets… Placed 61st in 6k at the Big 12 Championships with a personal best time of 21:44.0… At the RedHawk Rumble, she finished 11th in the 5k, punching in a time of 18:35.0.

2022 XC: Competed in six meets during her first season as a Bearcat… Scored points at. The AAC Championships by placing 30th overall with a time of 22:11.4… Followed that performance by placing 89th with a time of 22:05.5 in her first NCAA Great Lakes Regional… Ran her best 6k at the Bradley Pink Invitational with a time of 21:56.1… Recorded a personal best 5k time of 18:30.1 at the Live in Lou Classic.
2023 ITF: Competed in five meets during the season… Earned her first conference gold medal as part of the AAC championship DMR team that broke the UC record with a time of 11:21.95… Recorded a season-best mile time of 5:06.25 at the Music City Challenge
2023 OTF: Competed in five meets during the season… In the preliminary round of the AAC Championships, she broke the UC freshman 1500m record with a time of 4:27.60… at the Clark Wood Invitational, she recorded a personal best 2:11.53 in the 800m, the 10th fastest time in program history.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: A native of Newark, Ohio, she attended Newark High School, playing basketball and running track and field all four years... As a freshman, she was an OOC champion and placed third at districts... She also set her school’s 800m record. As a junior, she won her conference championships and the district championships in the 800m. She also placed fifth in the state championships. As a senior, she won her conference's cross country meet.... On the academic side, she was a President List award winner and the Columbus Dispatch Scholar.

PERSONAL: Born Gwendolyn “Gwen” Stare on June 30, 2003...Daughter of Jeffery and Kristen Stare and is one of three siblings... She comes from a family of athletes as her father played baseball at Muskingum University and her sister Gabby is a junior on the Ohio Dominican University basketball team... During her time at UC, she plans to major in business.