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Hannah Kiser
Position: XC
Year: Junior
Hometown: Wenatchee, Wash.
High School: Wenatchee HS
Experience: High School

2012 Outdoor: Kiser competed just once for Idaho as a sophomore before illness shortened her season … ran a 4:27.46 at the Stanford Invitational on April 6 … suffered a severe respiratory infection during the season and will pursue a medical redshirt.

2012 Indoor: Kiser had a breakout sophomore season indoors … earned USTFCCCA Second-Team All-America honors in the 3000m after finishing 13th at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a time of 9:26.88 … broke the Idaho school record and WAC all-time record on Feb. 11 at the Husky Classic with a time of 9:07.23 in the 3000m and in doing so, became just the second Vandal woman to achieve the NCAA indoor automatic qualifying standard … by qualifying for the NCAA Indoor Championships, Kiser became just the second woman in Idaho history to qualify for the NCAA Championships in cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field … won the WAC title in the 3000m with a WAC Championship meet-record time of 9:45.11 … won the women’s mile at the WAC Championships with a time of 4:45.67 … ran the anchor leg of Idaho’s first-place and WAC Championship meet-record-setting distance medley relay that posted an 11:41.67 and won by a 35-second margin … opened her season on Jan. 28 with a meet-record time of 4:42.41 in the mile at the Cougar Indoor … ran a career-best 2:10.65 in a second-place finish in the 800m at the Vandal Jamboree on Feb. 3 … Winter WAC All-Academic honoree.

2011 Cross Country: Kiser qualified for her first career NCAA Championships meet, where she placed 85th with a time of 20:54, Idaho’s second-highest individual finish in school history … was the first Vandal woman to qualify for the NCAA Championships in cross country since 2004 … USTFCCCA All-Region honoree after an 18th-place finish at the NCAA West Region Championships … earned First-Team All-WAC honors after finishing second overall at the WAC Championships with a time of 17:55.8 … led Idaho to its second straight WAC team championship … a three-time Verizon WAC Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week selection … the top collegiate finisher in the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational (16:55.3), the Dellinger Invitational (16:45.71), the Sundodger Invitational (20:58.43) and the Inland Northwest Cross Country Classic (14:11.3) … USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Team and Fall WAC All-Academic honoree.

2011 Outdoor: Kiser continued her strong freshman campaign outdoors and joined teammate Alycia Butterworth as the first Idaho true freshmen women to qualify for an NCAA meet … finished 32nd in the NCAA West semifinal round of the 5000m with a time of 16:53.10 … led nearly from start to finish with a time of 16:47.89 to claim the title in the 5000m at the WAC Championships … moved into fourth all-time at Idaho after posting a 16:36.12 in the 5000m at the Mt. SAC Relays on Apr. 15 … took fifth in the 1500m at the Oregon Twilight with a time of 4:26.30 that puts her at fourth all-time at Idaho in the event … also ran a career-best 2:14.74 in the 800m at the Beach Invitational on Apr. 16 … WAC Spring All-Academic honoree.

2011 Indoor: Kiser claimed a pair of golds at her first career WAC Indoor Championships meet as a freshman ... ran the third leg  of Idaho's title-winning distance medley relay that posted a time of 11:48.25 ... cruised to her first individual WAC title in the 3000m with a time of 9:53.78 ... was the only female WAC freshman to earn two golds and two first-team all-WAC honors at the meet ... posted career bests of 2:16.37 in the 800m at the UW Invitational, 4:52.30 in the mile run at the Husky Classic and 9:43.41 in the 3000m at the UW Indoor Open during the season.

2010 Cross Country: Kiser was Idaho's top finisher in two races during the season ... took sixth overall in 17:51 and earned first-team all-WAC honors to help Idaho claim the team title at the WAC Championships ... was the first Vandal to cross the line at the NCAA West Regional Championships with a 6k time of 21:25.50 and a 64th overall finish ... took ninth at the Sundodger Invitational with an Idaho freshman-record time of 21:30.79 to lead the Vandals to a second-place team finish ... helped the Vandals open the season with a team title at the All-Idaho Cup by finishing eighth overall with a time of 18:45.84 ... Idaho's second finisher in a team-title effort at the Charles Bowles Invitational, where she went sixth overall in 17:42.20 ... finished 15th overall, second among Vandals, at the Dellinger Invitational with a time of 20:50.21

Indoor Career Bests
800m: 2:10.65
Mile: 4:42.41
3000m: 9:04.74

Outdoor Career Bests
800m: 2:14.74
1500m: 4:26.30
5000m: 16:36.12

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