Whitney started racing in elementary school, when placing in local 1-mile fun runs felt like a big deal, and has been hooked ever since. Whitney ran cross country for Lenoir-Rhyne University, making the All-NCAA Division II Southeast Region and ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America teams her senior year. She took some time off from competitive racing while completing her PhD in Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill and didn’t return to focused training until her postdoctoral studies when, on a train home from a workout on the Stanford track, she discovered that the person she had been doing intervals with was also her neighbor. That neighbor would go on to introduce Whitney to marathoning and USATF club running. Whitney leads a neuroscience lab at NIH and is enjoying competing on the Masters circuit.
Personal Bests:
5k – 18:45
10 mile – 64:06
13.1 -1:25:37
26.2 – 3:00:19