2017 Track:
Indoor: Made her collegiate track debut at the Orange and Purple Classic, notching a fifth-place finish in the 3000m … Member of the DMR unit that took second at the Bob Pollock Memorial … Posted a career-best time in the 3000m of 10:29.90 at the Music City Challenge. Outdoor: Raced in the 1500m and 5000m during the outdoor season … Registered a career-best time of 4:48.76 in the 1500m at the Florida State Relays … Recorded a career best in the 5000m of 18:09.84 at the Georgia Tech Invitational.
2016 Cross Country:
Raced in four meets in the 2016 season … Recorded a career best in the 6k at the Crimson Classic with a time of 23:40.7 … Finished in a career-best time of 18:50.8 in the 5k at the Foothills Invitational … Also competed at the Roy Griak Invitational and the UGA Invitational.
Track 2016:
Did not compete.
Cross Country 2016:
Did not compete.
High School:
A four-year letterwinner in both cross country and track under head coach Andy Carr at Milton High School … Named a captain of the cross country team as a senior … Helped team to region championships in her freshman and senior seasons … Graduated in the top 10 percent of her class … Served as president of the National French Honor Society.
Personal:
Full name is Juanita Pardo … Born Sept. 6, 1997 in Bogota, Colombia … Daughter of German Pardo and Maria del Pilar Sanchez … Younger sister to Santiago … Chose Georgia Tech for its location, the weather and the campus … Majoring in psychology.
