2015-16 Women's Cross Country & Track and Field Roster

Sun Belt Conference
Sun Belt Conference

Noora Wallenius

  • Position:
    Distance
  • Class:
    Freshman
  • Experience:
    0
  • Hometown:
    Hyvinkää, Finland
  • High School:
    Hyvinkään Yhteiskoulun Lukio

Summary

Biography

2015 Sun Belt Cross Country Champion
2015 Cross Country All-Sun Belt First Team
2015 Sun Belt Cross Country Oustanding Performer
2015 Sun Belt Cross Country Freshman of the Year
2015-16 Sun Belt Indoor High Point Scorer
2016 All-Sun Belt Third Team Outdoors (1500)

2016 Outdoor Season:
Set the school record in the 5K with a time of 16:32.78 at the Mt. SAC Relays (April 14)...Came in third in that race...Finished in the top three of every race she entered during the outdoor season...Named All-Sun Belt Third Team after taking third place in the Sun Belt Championship (May 13) in the 1500 with a time of 4:30.65...Ran the 1500 in 4:29.96 at the Arkansas Twilight Meet (May 6), setting the second-best time in program history...At the Rhodes Invitational, came in first in the 5K with a time of 16:44.39.

2015-16 Indoor Season: Named the High Point Scorer at the Sun Belt Championship (Feb. 22) after winning the mile with a time of 4:56.12 and taking second place in the 3K with a time of 9:45.88 and second place in the 5K with atime of 16:55.42...That 3K time is now third all-time in Trojan history and that 5K time is now second-fastest in program history...Ran the mile in 4:52.92 at the Jaguar Invitational (Feb. 7) to become the third-fastest time in program history in that event...Ran the 3K in 9:45.56 at the ASU Invitational (Jan. 22)...Earned the Sun Belt Track Student-Athlete of the Week award for that performance.

2015 Cross Country Season: Represented the Trojans at the NCAA South Central Regional (Nov. 13), placing 36th in 20:59.1 for a time that is second all-time in Little Rock history in the 6K...Won the Sun Belt Championship as an individual with a time of 17:49.0...Became the first Trojan to win the Sun Belt Championship in nine years...Broke the school record in the 5K at the Little Rock Invitational with a time of 17:06.0...Broke the school record in the 5K one meet earlier at the Chile Pepper Festival (Oct. 3)...Named the Sun Belt Runner of the Week for that record-breaking performance...Picked up an event victory at the Lois Davis Invitational (Sept. 11)...Took 13th place at the Brooks Memphis Twilight Invitational with a time of 17:58.76.

Before Little Rock: Was the Finnish 4K champion in cross country and the double FInnish Champion in the 800 and 1500 duiring the indoor track and field season...Holds personal records in the 1500 of 4:29 and in the 5K of 17:14.

Personal: Born May 7, 1996...Daughter of Minna Wallenius...Has one sister, Annika...Majoring in business.

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