Sara McCune

Freshman season (2006) - Earned All-NWC honors by placing 14th at the conference championships ... Added all-region honors by placing 21st at the NCAA Div. III West Regional ... Finished fourth at 4,000 meters in the season-opening Whitman Invitational ... Also placed fourth in a 5,000-meter race at Spokane's Bigfoot Open ... Ran seventh at 6,000 meters at the Lewis & Clark Invitational ... Placed 47th overall in the women's 6,000-meter open race at Seattle's Sundodger Invitational, running in a field of 265 competitors ... Also placed 47th in a field of 298 runners at the Charles Bowles Invitational at Willamette.

Prep - Ran four years of varsity cross country and track for the Raiders and coach Ted Pawlak at Crescent Valley High ... Was part of four district cross country championship teams, extending Crescent Valley's number of consecutive titles to 13 ... Won the 2004 Valley League individual cross country championship and was the runner-up in 2005 ... In track, won the 2005 Valley League 1,500-meter championship and placed seventh at state in the 800 meters in 2006 ... Member of the 2006 Nike Borderclash Team ... Earned Rotary Club awards in both cross country and track ... Was part of Also played on her high school's ultimate frisbee team.

Academics - Leaning toward an environmental studies/geology major with a minor in education or Spanish ... Was president of Students for Global Awareness in high school ... Working the summer of 2007 on the Gathering Together Farm, an organic produce farm near Corvallis ... Worked the summer after her high school graduation at Oregon State University's Mycological Herbarium and Lab, assisting with the global "Fungal Tree of Life" project.

Personal - Daughter of Patricia Muir and Bruce McCune, both professors at Oregon State ... Has one older sister ... Rides horses and enjoys the outdoors, especially backpacking and canoeing.

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