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 time off from competitive running while completing her Ph.D. in Genetics at UNC-Chapel Hill.
One evening early in her postdoctoral studies, on a train home from a workout on the Stanford track, she discovered that the person she had been running intervals with was also her neighbor. That neighbor would go on to introduce Whitney to marathoning, USATF club running, and the importance of Sunday night dinner. 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 – 2:58:52