| Laurynne Chetelat |
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Cross Country: Competed in six races from the opening USF Invitational through NCAA regionals ... led the Bears with a second-place showing at the Sac State Jamboree ... also 19th at the Stanford Invitational ... took 33rd at the Pac-10 Championships and 68th at regionals ... sat out the 2009 campaign after transferring to Cal after one year at Stanford... while with the Cardinal, was her team's top runner in her first four meets in 2008, earning second-team All-Pac-10 honors after taking 13th at the conference championships ... received all-region notice after placing ninth at the NCAA West Regional ... 68th at NCAA nationals to help the Cardinal to an eighth-place team standing. Track: Returned to competition in 2011 after sitting out 2010 as a redshirt ... covered the 5000 meters in 17:12.85 at the Stanford Invitational ... while at Stanford, finished third in the 5000 meters at the 2009 Pac-10 Championships (16:21.16) and was fifth in the event at NCAA West Regionals (16:26.68) ... PR 15:43.31 came at the Stanford Invitational ... won the MPSF indoor title in the 3000 in 9:08.15 ... claimed seventh place in the 3000 at the NCAA indoor championships (9:16.12). High School: The 2007 California Division cross country champion ... also took second at the '07 Foot Locker West Region Championships and 16th at the Foot Locker Cross Country meet ... ran a high school best time of 9:52.51 in the 3200 meters, the third-fastest high school time ever ... competed in the World Junior Cross Country Championships in Scotland, where she was the third American ... made the World Junior team in the 3000 meters after winning the U.S. Junior trials ... finished sixth at Junior Worlds, the highest American in the event, and her time of 9:15.11 was the fifth-fastest prep mark ever. Personal: Born Feb. 18, 1990, in Woodland, Calif. ... parents are Roger and Catherine Chetelat ... last name is Swiss-French and means "little castle" ... has gone on a summer bike tour of France ... integrative biology major.