TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- 2024 Olympic 800-meter finalist
- Three-time NCAA champion
- Two-time NCAA 800 champion (indoors and outdoors, 2024)
- NCAA indoor distance medley relay champion (2023)
- Seven-time All-American
- Pac-12 800 champion (2023)
- Pac-12 Women's Track and Field Freshman of the Year (2023)
- School-record holder: indoor and outdoor 800, indoor mile, indoor 4x400 and DMR, outdoor DMR
- Stanford Athletics Board Conference Athlete of the Year (2023)
- Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Sophomore (2024)
- U.S. under-20 800 champion (2022)
- National high school outdoor record-holder (800 meters)
- Two-time NCAA West Region XC team champions (2022, 2023)
- Academic All-American (2024)
- Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2023, 2024)
- Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (XC 2023; T&F winter 2024; spring 2023, 2024)
As a Sophomore (2023-24)
Outdoors
- Seventh in Olympic 800 final (1:58.50)
- First active Stanford athlete to make an Olympic track final since 1932
- Olympic semifinal time of 1:57.76 was a Stanford record
- Among all collegians indoors and outdoors and on all dates, the time placed her No. 3 in collegiate history and was the No. 6 collegiate performance all-time.
- Third at U.S. Olympic Trials (1:58.45)
- NCAA 800 champion
- First to win NCAA indoor and outdoor women's 800 titles in the same year since 2017
- Two-time 2024 outdoor All-American
- Placed 15th in the NCAA 4x400 for second-team All-America honors
- Stanford Athletics Board Block 'S' Outstanding Freshman
- Broke Stanford outdoor 800 record four times during season
- Has broken Stanford school records 12 times, including indoor and outdoor
- Bowerman Award semifinalist (2024)
- First-team Academic All-American
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- NCAA 800 champion
- Won the NCAA 800 in a Stanford indoor record of 1:59.53
- Set Stanford mile record of 4:30.92 at the Terrier Classic
- Anchored Cardinal to school record of 10:47.03 in the distance medley relay at the Terrier DMR Challenge
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Cross Country * West Region Champions
- Raced once, placing 39th in the 'B' race at the Wisconsin Nuttycombe Invite
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Freshman (2022-23)
Outdoors
- Second-team All-American (4x400)
- Pac-12 800 champion
- Pac-12 Women's Track and Field Freshman of the Year
- Second leg on 12th-place 4x400 at NCAA Championships
- Anchored Stanford to Penn Relays distance medley relay victory
- The time of 10:50.56 set a school outdoor record
- Won the Mt. SAC Relays 1,500 in a lifetime best 4:12.49
- Ran 2:00.74 in the 800 in the first round of the U.S. Championships
- The time is No. 4 in Stanford outdoor history
- Set personal 400 best of 53.74 at the Stanford Invitational
- Has run on the No. 2 and No. 3 4x400s in school history
- Broke school freshmen record in the 1,500
- Stanford Athletics Board Conference Athlete of the Year
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- NCAA indoor distance medley relay champion
- Three-time All-American
- First-team All-American in the 800 and DMR
- Second-team All-American in the 4x400
- Anchored Stanford to the DMR victory at the NCAA Championships
- NCAA 800 runner-up to teammate Roisin Willis in 2:00.05
- Her time was the No. 4 indoor 800 performance and made her the No. 3 performer in collegiate history
- Anchored Card to school record in the DMR in 10:49.30
- The time was No. 6 in collegiate history for all conditions
- Ran lifetime mile best of 4:33.53 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
- Broke school freshman record in the mile
- No. 2 in the 800 and No. 3 in the mile on school's all-time indoor list
- Made collegiate debut at the UW Indoor Preview, winning the 800 and 4x400 relay
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions
- Did not compete
International/National
- Olympic finalist in the 800, placing seventh in Paris in 2024
- 2022 World Under-20 Championships bronze medalist in the 800
- Third in the 800 at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials
- U.S. U20 champion in the 800 in 2022
- Advanced to the semifinals of the 800 at the U.S. Olympic Trials, placing 10th overall
Prior to Stanford
- Broke the national high school outdoor 800 record on June 25, 2022, running 1:59.04 to win the U.S. U20 title in Eugene
- Captured bronze at the World U20 Championships in 2:00.18
- Named 2021-22 Gatorade National Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
- Two-time Maryland Gatorade Girls Track and Field Player of the Year
- Won the mile at the 2022 Brooks PR Invitational in a meet record 4:36.23
- Ran her mile PB of 4:36.15 in a Pennsylvania meet against boys, the No. 4 prep time in the nation in 2022
- The nation’s No. 1 recruit in her class by MileSplit
- No. 3 on the all-time U.S. U20 performers’ list in the 800
- Broke 2:00 twice in 2022, including a 1:59.80 at Track Night NYC vs. pros
- Ran sub-2:02 four times in a five-week span and six times overall in 2021
- Advanced to the semifinals of the 800 at the U.S. Olympic Trials, placing 10th overall
- Won the 2021 Brooks PR Invite mile in 4:38.65, the year’s fastest high school time
- Joined future Stanford teammate Roisin Willis in setting a world indoor under-20 record in the 4x800
- Joined Willis on a DMR team that ran the fastest U20 time in indoor history
- Won high school mile at 2022 Penn Relays and was second in the Olympic Development 800
- Won the mile at the 2022 New Balance Indoor Nationals in 4:37.23, the No. 4 indoor performance in prep history
Personal
- Parents are Jill and Paul Whittaker
- Both competed in track at Georgetown
- Brother Alex competed in track and cross country at Yale
- Sister Isabella made the U.S. Olympic pool in the 4x400 in 2024
- Coached through high school by her father
- Anticipates a career in sports marketing or management
- Competitive swimmer for seven years
- Class president at Mount de Sales Academy
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023-24 | Outdoors (8) | 800 | 1:57.76 | -- | 2 (2:01.05) | 1 (1:59.61) |
| 1,500 | 4:17.43 | 3 (4:17.47) | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:31.66 | 6 (3:32.57) | 9 (3:32.51) | 15 (3:31.66) | ||
| Indoors (5) | 800 | 1:59.53 | -- | -- | 1 (1:59.53) | |
| Mile | 4:30.92 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 10:47.03 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:31.97 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross Country (1) | 8K | 22:28.9 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2022-23 | Outdoors (8) | 800 | 2:00.74 | 1 (2:01.19) | -- | -- |
| 1,500 | 4:12.49 | -- | 16 (4:16.15) | -- | ||
| 400 | 53.74 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:29.43 | 3 (3:34.35) | 7 (3:29.43) | 14 (3:30.98) | ||
| DMR | 10:50.56 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (5) | 800 | 2:00.05 | -- | -- | 2 (2:00.05) | |
| Mile | 4:33.53 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:31.71 | -- | -- | 12 (3:32.80) | ||
| DMR | 10:49.30 | -- | -- | 1 (10:56.34) | ||
| Cross Country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |