TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Two-time All-American
- NCAA West Region XC champion (2024)
- USTFCCCA West Region XC Athlete of the Year (2024)
- Pac-12 cross country champion (2023)
- Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year (2023)
- Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Freshman of the Year (2023)
- Two-time XC All-West Region (2023, 2024)
- First-team XC All-Pac-12 (2023)
- ACC's Women's Indoor Track Performer of the Week (Feb. 4, 2025)
- NCAA West Region XC team champions (2023)
- ACC absolute and indoor 5,000 record-holder (15:00.75)
- Set Australian indoor 5,000 record
- Set Australian absolute under-20 records in the 3,000 and 5,000
- Set Australian and Oceania under-18 3,000 record
- USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2024)
As a Sophomore (2024-25)
Indoors
- Second-team All-American
- Placed 14th in the 3,000 at the NCAA Championships
- Opened season by running 15:00.75 for 5,000 at the Colyear-Danville Classic
- The time was a Stanford absolute record, and the 10th-fastest time in collegiate history, including indoors and outdoors
- It also broke the Australian indoor record and under-20 absolute record
- It broke ACC indoor and absolute 5,000 records
- Bunnage became No. 5 on the all-time absolute collegiate performers' list for 5,000
- Broke the school record in the only four races she ran (pre-NCAA) during the indoor season: mile, 3,000, 5,000, and DMR
- Set the Stanford 3,000 record of 8:43.82 (since broken by Sophia Kennedy) at the Terrier Classic
- The time broke the oldest indoor record in Stanford women's history -- PattiSue Plumer's 8:53.54 from 1983
- Became No. 6 on the 3,000 all-time collegiate indoor performers' list
- Set the Stanford absolute mile record of 4:29.09
- Anchored Stanford to DMR school-record of 10:38.93 -- the second-fastest time in collegiate history
- ACC's Women's Indoor Track Performer of the Week (Feb. 4, 2025)
Opened season
Cross Country
- All-American
- NCAA West Region champion
- USTFCCCA West Region XC Athlete of the Year
- Fourth at the NCAA Championships, Stanford's highest individual finish in 11 years
- Led Stanford to sixth as a team at NCAAs
- Her NCAA 6K time of 19:31.1 was a Stanford record for Wisconsin's Thomas Zimmer Course
- All-West Region
- Made season debut at NCAA West Region race
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
As a Freshman (2023-24)
Outdoors
- Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 5,000, placing 17th
- Placed third in the 5,000 at the Pac-12 Championships
Indoors - Ran 15:11.68 for 5,000 at the Ken Shannon Invitational, setting an Australian U20 absolute record, Stanford indoor record, and Stanford absolute freshman record
- The time was the fourth-fastest in collegiate history for all-sized indoor tracks
- Her 3,000 time of 8:54.88 at the Husky Classic on the same Dempsey Indoor track and was good for No. 3 in Stanford indoor history and a school frosh record
Cross Country * West Region champions - Pac-12 champion
- Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Year
- Pac-12 Women's Cross Country Freshman of the Year
- First-team All-Pac-12
- NCAA West Region team champion
- All-West Region
- Sixth at Virginia XC Invitational at No. 1 for Stanford in her collegiate debut
- First freshman to win the Pac-12 title since Stanford's Erin Sullivan in 1999
International/National Competition
- Six-time Australian champion, at U20, U18, and U17
- Represented Australia at the 2023 World U20 Cross Country Championships
- Trained with the Australia U20 national team in 2021 and 2022
- Represented Australia in the 1,500 at the 2021 Oceania Invitational, placing third in the open division
Prior to Stanford
- Set the Australian U20 3,000 record of 8:51.90 at the Sydney Track Classic on March 11, 2023
- The time placed her No. 14 in Australian history for all divisions
- Ran 15:21.76 at the 2023 Mt. SAC Relays for the No. 2 Australian U20 5,000 time ever, placing her 25th in national history
- Set the Australian and Oceania U18 record in the 3,000 of 9:00.60 in 2022 in Melbourne
- Won Australian U20 titles in the 3,000 and 5,000 in 2023, and the 3,000 in 2022
- Australian U18 cross country champion in 2022
- Australian U17 track champion in the 1,500 and 3,000 in 2021
Personal
- Parents are Ross and Mel Bunnage
- Has an older brother, Sam
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2024-25 | Indoors (5) | 5,000 | 15:00.75 | -- | -- | DNF |
| 3,000 | 8:43.82 | -- | -- | 14 (9:11.87) | ||
| Mile | 4:29.09 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 10:38.93 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (2) | 6K | 19:17.1 | -- | 1 (19:17.1) | 4 (19:31.1) | |
| 2023-24 | Outdoors (4) | 5,000 | 15:38.75 | 3 (16:22.73) | 7 (15:59.53) | 17 (16:00.04) |
| Indoors (3) | 5,000 | 15:11.68 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 3,000 | 8:54.88 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (4) | 6K | 19:09.7 | 1 (19:09.7) | 14 (19:50.1) | -- | |
| 5K | 16:26.4 | -- | -- | -- |