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2014-15 Women's Track and Field

Mara Olson

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  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Highschool St. Louis Park

Biography

2015 NCAA Second Team All-America, Outdoor Track (10,000)
2015 Outdoor Track & Field All-BIG EAST (10,000)
2015 Indoor Track & Field All-BIG EAST (3,000, DMR)
2013-14 Capital One Academic All-America (First Team)
2014 NCAA Second Team All-America, Outdoor Track (5,000)

2014 All-BIG EAST Outdoor Track
2014 NCAA Indoor Track "Elite 89" Academic Achievement Award
2014 NCAA Second Team All-America, Indoor Track (3,000)
2013 NCAA Cross Country All-America

2013-14 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2013-14 Capital One Academic All-District V

2013 USTFCCCA All-Academic
Butler Athletic Director's Honor Roll
3,000 Meter Champ at the 2013 Atlantic 10 Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship
Named to the 2012 Atlantic 10 Conference Academic All-Conference Team
Received the 2011-12 Frank "Pop" Hedden Award as Butler's Most Outstanding Freshman Female Student-Athlete.
2011 Horizon League Cross Country Newcomer of the Year.
Horizon League Cross Country, Second Team All-League, 2011.
2011-12 Horizon League Indoor Track Newcomer of the Year.

2015 Outdoor Track
10,000
- BIG EAST, 5/8-9/15    34:27.01 (1st)

2014-15 Indoor Track
Mile
- Gladstein Inv., 1/23/15    4:45.82
3000
- Meyo Inv., 2/7/15    9:26.22
- BIG EAST, 3/1/15    9:06.04*
5000
- Hoosier Open, 12/12/14    16:10.47
- Husky Classic, 2/13/15    15:55.76*

2014 Outdoor Track
1500
- Stan Lyons Inv., 5/3/14 - 4:23.52
5000
- BIG EAST Championship, 5/11/14 - 16:29.09 (2nd)
- NCAA East Prelim, 5/31/14 - 16:09.74 (12th)
- NCAA National, 6/14/14 - 16:11.58 (12th)

2013-14 Indoor Track
3000
- Hoosier Open, 12/13/13 - 9:11.86
- Gladstein Invite, 1/24/14 - 9:08.83^
- NCAA Indoor Championship, 3/15/14 - 9:24.86
5000
- Iowa State Classic, 2/14/14 - 16:03.89^

2013 Outdoor Track
1500-Miami Inv., 4/6/13 - 4:33.29
 -Stan Lyons, 4/27/13 - 4:29.71
5000-Stanford Inv., 3/29/13 - 16:08.08

2012-13 Indoor Track
Mile-Indiana Relays, 1/26/13 - 4:59.40
 -A-10, 2/17/13 - 4:57.97 (3rd)
3000-Illini Open, 1/12/13 - 9:45.15
 -Husky Classic, 2/9/13 - 9:29.05
 -A-10, 2/17/13 - 9:46.95 (1st)

2012 Outdoor Track
-  Mike Poehlein Invitational - 3000 Steeplechase (11:22.66)
-  Mt. Sac Relays - 1500 (4:21.32)
-  Stan Lyons Invitational - 800 (2:15.86)
-  Horizon League Outdoor Championship - 800 (2:14.99); 1500 (4:37.71)
-  GVSU Last Chance - 1500 (4:30.41)

2011-12 Indoor Track
-  Blue and Gold Invitational - 800 (2:20.76)
-  Hoosier Invitational - Mile (4:48.67)
-  Gladstein Invitational - Mile (4:50.36)
-  Indiana Relays - 800 (2:13.87)
-  Meyo Invitational - Mile (4:52.40)
-  Husky Classic - Mile (4:50.34)
-  EIU Friday Night Special - 800 (2:12.71)
-  Horizon League Indoor Championship - 800 (2:13.13, 2nd place); Mile (4:49.35)

2013 Cross Country:  Earned All-America recognition with a 26th place finish at the NCAA Division I Championship in 20:37.7...placed ninth at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional with a time of 20:33...came in eighth at the BIG EAST Championship (20:29)...finished 23rd at the NCAA Pre-National Meet (20:43.55)...posted a fourth place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational (20:58)...named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.

2012 Cross Country: Named to the Alantic 10 All-Conference Academic team...finished fifth (17:55.4) at the Atlantic 10 conference championships and helped lead Butler to the overall team title...placed 28th (21:02) at the 2012 Great Lakes Regional Meet... finished 117th (20:53.6) overall and second on the team at the NCAA National Meet...posted a time of 21:10.1 at the Pre-National Meet...came in 10th (13:30.9) at the 2012 Toledo Bubble Buster meet.

2011 Cross Country
-  Illini Challenge - 1st (14:45)
-  Indiana Intercollegiate Meet - 14th (18:27)
-  Notre Dame Invitational - 181st (19:21)
-  Bradley Classic - 34th (22:20.04)
-  Horizon League Championship - 11th (19:45.7)
-  NCAA Great Lakes Regional - 58th (21:56.1)

Collegiate Bests
800 (I) - 2:13.13
800 (O) - 2:14.99
1500 (O) - 4:21.32
Mile (I) - 4:45.82
3000 (I) - 9:06.04
3000 Steeplechase - 11:22.66
5000 (I) - 15:55.76
5000 (O) - 16:08.08
10,000 (O) - 34:27.01

Background: Earned all-state honors in cross country, soccer, and basketball...ranked No. 1 academically in her high school class...six-time state medalist in track...Minnesota state 2A champion in the 1600 meter run in 2008...finished fourth in the 1 mile run at the state meet recording a personal best time of 5:00.07...placed second at the state finals in the 3200 meter run on two separate occasions...recipient of the 2010-11 St. Louis Park Athena Award, given to the school's top female athlete.

Historical Player Information

  • 2011-12Freshman

    Middle Distance
  • 2012-13Sophomore

    Middle Distance
  • 2013-14Junior

    Middle Distance
  • 2014-15Senior

    Middle Distance
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