2015 Track:
Indoor: Finished seventh in the 3,000 meters with a career-best time of 10:07.35 at the Samford University Invitational. Outdoor: Logged a career-best in the 1,500 meters in a time of 5:41.44 at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Ran a PR in the 5,000 meters (17:13.37) at the Penn Relays.
2014 Cross Country:
Competed in four meets … Recorded a 5K time of 18:52 at the Florida Mountain Dew Invitational … Placed 31st out of 161 runners at the Upstate Invitational, crossing the line in 18:53 … Had her best performance of the season at the Crimson Classic, finishing with a time of 18:44.
2014 Track:
Indoor: Placed third in the 5,000 meters at the Southern Miss Cupid Classic in a time of 18:18.19. Outdoor: Ran to a career-best time of 4:46.40 in the 1,500 meters at the Georgia Invite … Finished third in the 5,000 meters with a time of 17:50.82 at the Tiger Classic … Improved that time to a personal-best 17:31.87 for fourth place at the Georgia Tech Invite.
2013 Cross Country:
Ran a season-best 5K in 20:08 at the Louisville Classic … Also ran a season-best 6K at the Furman Classic in 24:26.
2013 Track:
Indoor: Ran a season-best 3,000-meter time of 11:00.77 at the Auburn Invite … Recorded a personal-best 5K time of 18:43.51 at the Samford Invite. Outdoor: Logged an outdoor 5K season-best time of 19:16.64 at the Alabama Relays … Ran her best 3,000 meters of the season (11:05.76) at the Auburn Classic.
2012 Cross Country:
Did not compete.
2012 Track:
Indoor: Did not compete. Outdoor: Ran the 5,000 meters in a season-best 18:49.52 at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Raced to a time of 10:59.11 in the 3,000 meters at the Tiger Track Relays.
2011 Cross Country:
Turned in a season-best 5K performance at the Charlotte Invitational, finishing 88th out of 260 competitors with a time of 19:01.19 … Ran her best 6K of the season at the Clemson Invitational with a time of 24:47.83 … Opened the 2012 season with a 5K time of 20:06.14 at the UGA Invite.
High School:
A four-year letterwinner in cross country and track at Niceville and at Havelock High School in Havelock, N.C. … Earned the honor of team captain on both the Niceville track and cross country teams … Ran in the Foot Locker Championships and was on the second state team …Set the Niceville school record in the 4×1600- and 4×800 -meter relays … Finished third in her class with a 4.69 GPA … President of the National Honor Society and played trumpet in the marching band.
Personal:
Full name is Laura E Nelson … Born on April 21, 1993 in Corpus Christie, Texas … Parents are Chad and Liz Nelson … Brother is Matthew … Hobbies include singing, playing the trumpet and swimming … Most memorable non-athletic accomplishment was speaking at her high school graduation … Majors in biomedical engineering.
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