Lisa Taylor

Senior season (2007) - Serving as senior captain of the women's team.

Junior season (2006) - After sitting out her first two years at Whitman, placed fourth for the Missionaries in her first collegiate race, placing ninth overall at the Whitman Invitational ... Ran third for Whitman at the season's two largest meets, placing 83rd at Seattle's Sundodger Invitational and 88th at Willamette's Charles Bowles Invitational ... Posted Whitman's fourth-best times at both the Bigfoot Open and NCAA Div. III West Regional ... Finished 40th at the NWC Championships, clocking Whitman's fifth-best time.

Prep - Ran four seasons of cross country for coach John Durheim and the Cashmere High Bulldogs ... Earned all-league honors all four seasons, qualifying three times for state competition ... Voted team captain as a senior and Most Inspirational as a sophomore ... Also ran four seasons of track, twice competing at state in the 1,600 and 3,200 meters.

Academics - Has a 3.925 cumulative grade point average after three years at Whitman ... Has a minor in economics in addition to her major in piano performance ... Considering post-Whitman graduates studies in business or law ... Enrolled summer 2007 in the Stanford Graduate School of Business Summer Institute, a four-week program for students interested in possible post-graduate studies in business ... One of two Whitman students who provided the musical interlude for the Baccalaureate service during the 2007 Commencement Weekend ... Will give an one-hour piano recital, including pieces from each of the four major periods in music history (baroque, classical, romantic, contemporary), in the spring of 2008 as part of her music major ... Also plans to write a research thesis on each of the pieces in her recital program ... Worked in sales and marketing for a candy company during the summer of 2005 ... Speaks Spanish and spent July, 2006, in Salamanca, Spain, taking language, culture and history classes ... Was her high school valedictorian.

Personal - Daughter of Kris and Greg Taylor ... Has one younger brother ... Her grandparents, Elizabeth Tertsagian Taylor (now living in Bellevue, Wash.) and the late Dr. Willis J. Taylor, graduated from Whitman in 1944 ... Has served as a vice president of her Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority ... Volunteers for Whitman's Center for Community Service, reading books to preschool children as part of the Storytime Project.

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