Sarah Carter

Class:
Redshirt Sophomore
Hometown:
Phoenix, Ariz.
High School:
Xavier College Prep
Major:
Forest Sciences
Prev School:
Washington

ACCOLADES
All-Mountain West (2022, 2023)
All-Mountain Region (2022, 2023)
Academic All-Mountain West (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Mountain West Scholar Athlete (2022-24 XC, 2020-21 XC, 2021 TF; 2019 XC, 2020 TF)

Collegiate-Best Marks

COLORADO STATE
Graduate (2023)
(Cross Country): Competed in six races, notching four top-10 finishes ... Captured the Mountain West Individual Cross Country championship, running a time of 19:48.5 ... Opened the season with a victory at the 2023 Wyoming Invite ... Finished 8th at the NCAA Division I Mountain Region Cross Country Championships (Nov.10) and recorded a season-high time of 19:45.9 ... Also competed in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships (Nov.18).

Graduate (2022)
(Cross Country): Ran in all six meets... Finished in the top-3 for Colorado State in all, including leading the pack in three meets... Posted a career-best in the 5K at the Wyoming Invite (9/3) with a 17:35.5 and a fifth-place finish... Finished eighth (21:06.3) at the Roy Griak Invitational (9/23) and 62nd a tth Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational (10/14) - both finishing first for CSU... Helped Colorado State finish second at the Mountain West Championship with an 11th place finish (20:16.2)... Posted a 20th place finish at the NCAA Mountain Regional (11/11) with a 20:37.1 time to help the Rams to the NCAA Championships... Led the team at the Championships (11/19) with a 43rd place finish and a 20:15.0 time - a career best in the 6K.

Redshirt Senior (2021)
(Cross Country): Did not appear due to injury.

Redshirt Junior (2020)
(Cross Country): Ran in all four meets... Third Ram and third overall finisher in the Colorado State-Wyoming Dual to help lead CSU to the win... Crossed with a time of 21:30.3 vs. Wyoming in the 6K... Fourth Ram to cross at the Battle Born Collegiate XC Challenge, helping CSU get seventh place... Ninth Ram to finish at the MW Championships in 48th place at 21:54.2... Sixth Ram to finish at NCAA Championships in 221st place.

Redshirt Sophomore (2019)
(Cross Country): Scored as the fifth Ram in her collegiate debut at the Wyoming Invite, finishing 13th overall at 18:37.8...Placed 87th, 3rd for CSU, at the Joe Piane Invitational 5k with a career-best time of 17:27.50... Finished 2nd for the Rams in the Nuttycombe Invite 6k race... Third Ram to score in the MW Championships, placing 21st with a 6K PR... Second Ram to cross in the NCAA Mountain Region Championships.

BEFORE COLORADO STATE
Washington
Redshirt Freshman (2018)
(Cross Country): Made her Husky debut after redshirting the previous year, and helped contribute to a Husky squad that finished ninth at the NCAA Championships… Was the No. 7 runner on the team at West Regionals and Pac-12 Championships, finishing 86th at Regionals and 59th at Pac-12s… At Pre-Nationals in Wisconsin, finished 168th overall and seventh on the squad… Was the No. 6 runner at the Stanford Invitational in 47th-place.

Freshman (2017)
(Cross Country): Redshirted the season, competing twice unattached… Finished 35th at the Sundodger Invitational in 22:22… Was sixth at the Emerald City Open in 22:17.

HIGH SCHOOL/PERSONAL
Born in Sacramento, Calif.… Daughter to Cynthia and David Carter… Was the Arizona Division I cross country state champion as a junior in 2015… Did not run cross country as a senior but came back on the track and was state runner-up in both the 1,600-meters and 3,200-meters… Set the meet record in the 1,600-meters in the 2017 Meet of Champions at 4:55… Displaying wide range, also made the state championships on the track in the 800-meters and on the 4x800-meter relay… An Arizona Milesplit Distance Runner of the Year nominee… Earned Arizona Republic High Achiever Award and All-State Team selection… Multiple Arizona Interscholastic Association Scholar Athlete Award winner… As a junior, was 12th in the Nike Cross Southwest Regional race and went on to finish 83rd at the national championships… Took fourth at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational in 2017 in the 3,200-meters, running 10:35… Graduated with a 4.5 grade point average.