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Sophie Chase
Sophie Chase
Position: Distances
Year: Junior
Hometown: Burke, Va.
High School: Lake Braddock
Major: History

Career Bests (thru 2016 indoors):

  • 1,500 meters: 4:26.74
  • 800: 2:10.81
  • Mile: 4:51.65
  • 3,000: 9:23.51i

2016 Season:
Indoors

  • Set 12-second personal best in the 3,000, running 9:23.51 to finish ninth at the Iowa State Classic.
  • Ran 9:30.27 to place 15th at the MPSF Championships.

2015 Season:
Outdoors

  • Competed in two meets.
  • Fourth in the Big Meet 3,000 in 9:45.80.

Indoors

  • Ran two races, both miles, during the season.
  • 22nd at MPSF Championships in the mile in a season-best 4:57.05.

2014 Season:
Outdoors

  • Redshirted, but ran three meets unattached, dropping her time more than 10 seconds in the 1,500 over the season.
  • Ran her personal best 4:26.74 at the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford (May 4).

Indoors

  • Did not compete.

Cross Country:

  • Two-time NCAA All-West Region selection.
  • Stanford's No. 3 runner at the 2014 NCAA Championships, placing 136th.

High School:

  • A three-time Foot Locker nationals finalist and two-time Foot Locker All-American.
  • One of five ever to win multiple 3,000 titles at the Penn Relays, after victories in 2012-13.
  • Ran a personal best of 9:35.52 in 2013 Penn Relays.
  • The Gatorade Virginia Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.
  • Led Lake Braddock to the 2013 Virginia Group AAA cross country title with an individual victory, her second.
  • Won the 2012 FootLocker South Regional in cross country.
  • A two-time state 3,200-meter champ in track.
  • Went undefeated in cross country until placing sixth at the Foot Locker nationals in San Diego.
  • In February, 2013, ran a 4:51.30 indoors in the 1,600 to break a Virginia AAA Northern Region indoor record that had stood since 1998.
  • On the same day, she competed in the state swimming championships, finishing 14th in the 100-yard breaststroke.
  • Lettered four years in swimming.

Personal:

  • Majoring in history.
  • Daughter of David and Caroline.
  • Has younger siblings Kristen and Evan.
  • Born in La Jolla, Calif. 

Career Results:

Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Finish W. Prelims NCAA Champs.
2016 Indoors (2) 3,000 9:23.51 15 (MPSF) -- --
2015 Outdoors (2) 1,500 4:32.12 -- -- --
    3,000 9:45.80 -- -- --
  Indoors (2) Mile 4:57.05 22 (MPSF) -- --
2014 Outdoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
  Indoors (0) -- -- -- -- --
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