2012 Cross Country Roster

Marie Patton

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  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Littleton, Colo.
  • Highschool Heritage
  • Major Engineering Physics

Biography

Awards:

  • 2012 RMAC First Team All-Academic
  • 2011-12 Capital One First Team Academic All-American
  • 2011-12 Capital One First Team Academic All-District
  • 2011 Third Team All-RMAC
  • 2011 RMAC First Team All-Academic
  • 2011 Preseason All-RMAC
  • 2010 RMAC First Team All-Academic
  • RMAC Women's Runner of the Week (Sept. 22, 2010)
  • 2009-10 ESPN The Magazine Third Team Academic All-American
  • 2009-10 ESPN The Magazine First Team Academic All-District
  • 2009 RMAC Women's Cross Country Academic Runner of theYear
  • 2009 USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • 2009 RMAC First Team All-Academic
  • 2009 Third Team All-RMAC


Top Times at Mines:

6 K - 21:38.5 - 2009 Woody Greeno/NebraskaInvitational

5 K - 17:57.15 - 2010 Louisville Classic


2012:
Scoring runner for Mines in every scored race,recording five top-40 efforts...Clocked season-best 6K-time of21:58.7 at NCAA Division II National Championships (78th)...Claimed20th at Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational (22:44.5) and pair of22nd-place finishes at Colorado State Open (19:38.5) and RMACChampionships (23:55.1), missing all-conference merit by oneslot...Took 28th in 23:25 at NCAA Division II South CentralRegional Championships and 33rd in 10:03.34 at OSU CowboyJamboree...RMAC First Team All-Academic.

2011: Top Oredigger in all three regular seasonmeets and second-highest finisher in both postseason races, earningfour top-20 times...Third Team All-RMAC performer with 20th-placetime of 23:55 at RMAC Championships...Season-best sixth-placefinish  at Fort Hays State Tiger Open (18:27.7)...Finished16th at Rust Buster Invite (15:19.96) and 19th at Erik AndersonInvite (22:26.18)...Took 56th in 25:24 at NCAA Division II CentralRegional Championships...Named to Preseason All-RMACsquad...Capital One First Team Academic All-American andAll-District and RMAC First Team All-Academic.

2010: Fastest Oredigger in first two meets,before redshirting due to injury...Ran personal-best 17:57.15 totake 46th at 5K Louisville Classic...Named RMAC Women's Runner ofthe Week following career-high tying third-place finish in 23:04 atColorado College Invitational...RMAC First Team All-Academic.

2009: Top-five Mines finisher in every scoredrace, placing third at both Rust Buster Invite (15:16.33) and FortHays State Tiger Open (18:18.54)...Ran career-best 6K-time of21:38.5 for 15th at Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational...Third TeamAll-RMAC with 18th place at RMAC Championships (24:08)...Oneposition shy of all-region honors, finishing 16th  at NCAADivision II Central Regional Championships (22:43)...ESPN TheMagazine College Division First Team Academic All-District andThird Team Academic All-American...Named RMAC Women's Cross CountryAcademic Runner of the Year, RMAC First Team All-Academic andUSTFCCCA All-Academic.

2008: Placed in team’s top-five in allsix meets, including trio of top-25 results...Season-high 12-placefinish at Rust Buster Invite (16:18)...Took 17th in 25:15 atColorado Time Trials and 23rd in 24:38.9 at Nebraska Kearney LoperOpen...Placed 46th at RMAC Championships (24:31.4) and 80th at NCAADivision II Central Regional Championships (24:28.65)...Dean's Listand Gold Academic Achievement Award recipient.

High School: Lettered all four years in crosscountry and track and field...Three-time team captain...Took 32ndat state cross country championships...Placed fifth in 4x800 relayat state track meet as a sophomore and 16th in 1600 as ajunior...Led team to league and regional titles in secondseason...National Honor Society and French Honor Societymember...Academic letterwinner.