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Grace Boone Season 2020

ClassSophomore
HometownPulaski, Va.
High SchoolPulaski County

2022: Placed 70th at the NCAA Southeast Regional with a time of 21:43.5 (6k) ... Finished 52nd at the ACC Championships with a personal-best time of 20:56.6 (6k)... Clocked in a season-best 5k time of 17:33.5 at the Panorama Farms XC23 Invitational... Finished second at the Virginia Tech Invitational with a time of 14:44.1. 

2021: Finished third at the Virginia Tech Invitational (4k) with her PR time of 14:30.5.

2020: Came in 76th at the ACC Championships (6K) with a time of 21:52.5 … Was eighth at the Panorama Farms Invitational with a time of 17:23.7 … Finished 18th at the Virginia Tech Invitational (6K) in a time of 22:03.2.

2019: Came in 68th at the NCAA Southeast Region meet (6K) with a career-best time of 21:45.2 … Was 58th at the ACC Championships (6K) with a time of 22:12.1 … Competed at the Pre-National Invitational and ran the course in a time of 22:29.7 … Finished 11th at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational (6K) with a time of 22:01.8 … Ran unattached at the Virginia Tech Invitational (4K) and was 14th overall with a time of 14:31.4.

High school: A nine-time state champion in track and field … Named The Roanoke Times’ Girls Performer of the Year in track and field as a senior … Swept the Class 4 state titles in the 400, 800 and 1,600 during the outdoor season as a senior … Won those events in times of 56.62, 2:11.48 and 5:03.77, respectively … Earned first-team all-state honors in all three events … Her time of 2:10.63 in the 800 during her senior season was the top girls time in the state in that event … Won the Class 4 state indoor title in the 1,000 as a senior with a time of 2:58.07 … Won a silver medal in the 500 at the Class 4 state indoor meet as a senior … Won Class 4 state outdoor titles in both the 400 and 800 as a junior with times of 57.53 seconds and 2:15.53, respectively … Finished her junior season with the top time in the area in both the 800 and 1,600 … Named The Roanoke Times’ Girls Performer of the Year in track and field as a junior … Has career best times of 56.62 (400), 2:07.46 (800) and 5:03.37 (1,600).
 
Personal: Born April 8, 2001 in Roanoke, Virginia … Daughter of Greg and Melissa Boone … Major is biology, with a career goal of becoming a veterinarian.

 

Grace Boone's XC Career Bests

4K: 14:30.5, Virginia Tech Invitational (2021)

5K: 17:23.7, Panorama Farms Invitational (2020)

6K: 20:56.6, ACC Championships (2022)

italics = ran unattached