TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Three-time All-American (XC 2024; Indoor T&F 2024; Outdoor T&F 2024)
- Two-time All-West Region XC (2023, 2024)
- All-ACC XC (2024)
- ACC XC Performer of the Week (Sept. 3, 2024)
- Three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2023, 2024; T&F 2024)
- NCAA West Region XC team champions (2023)
As a Sophomore (2024-25)
Cross Country
- All-American
- Earned first XC All-America honor by placing 33rd at NCAA Championships
- All-West Region
- All-ACC
- Stanford's No. 1 runner at Pre-Nationals and USF Invitational
- Stanford's No. 2 runner at ACC, NCAA West Region, and NCAA championships
- ACC Performer of the Week (Sept. 3)
- USF Invitational winner
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
As a Freshman (2023-24)
Outdoors
- Second-team All-American
- Placed 11th in 5,000 at NCAA Championships
- NCAA time of 15:33.29 set a Stanford freshmen outdoor record
- The time was a personal best and placed her No. 2 on Stanford's absolute freshmen list
- Won NCAA West Prelims in 15:53.49 for her first collegiate victory
- Set 1,500 personal best of 4:20.14 at Payton Jordan Invite
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
Indoors
- Second-team All-American
- Ran anchor leg on 10th place distance medley relay team at NCAA Championships
- Ran 3,000 personal best of 9:14.28 at UW Indoor Preview
- The time placed her No. 5 on Stanford's all-time freshmen list
Cross Country * West Region Champions
- All-West Region
- No. 3 runner on Stanford's 12th place team at NCAA Championships
- Second in the USF Invitational in collegiate debut
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
Prior to Stanford
- Fourth in the two-mile at the 2023 Brooks PR Invitational in a PB 9:57.09
- Indiana 3,200 champion in 2023
- Seventh at 2022 Nike Cross Nationals
- Champs Sports Midwest Region cross country runner-up in 2022
- Seventh at 2021 Eastbay Cross Country Championships
- Third at 2021 Eastbay Midwest Region Cross Country Championships
- Fifth in the two-mile at the 2021 Brooks PR Invitational and eighth in 2022
Personal
- Parents are Melina and Bob Kennedy
- Brother is Marcus
- Four-time cum laude
- A.P. Scholar
- Father, a two-time Olympian, was one of the greatest runners in American history
- Bob was sixth in the 5,000 at the 1996 Atlanta Games, a seven-time U.S. champion, and held American records in the 3,000, two-mile, and 5,000
Career results
Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
2024-25 | Cross Country (6) | 6K | 19:39.5 | 11 (19:52.3) | 6 (19:39.5) | 33 (20:00.6) |
2024-25 | Outdoors (7) | 5,000 | 15:33.29 | 4 (16:34.88) | 1 (15:53.49) | 11 (15:33.29) |
1,500 | 4:20.14 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Indoors (6) | 5,000 | 15:43.05 | -- | -- | -- | |
3,000 | 9:14.28 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Mile | 4:43.09 | -- | -- | -- | ||
Cross Country (6) | 6K | 19:56.3 | 23 (19:59.5) | 15 (19:56.3) | 95 (20:38.7) | |
5K | 16:58.7 | -- | -- | -- |