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Personal Records:
2 Mile - 12:00 - 2017 WCU Cross Country Festival (9/2/17)
4k - 15:40 - Winthrop Early Season Challenge (9/4/15)
5k - 18:44 - 2015 Big South Cross Country Championship (10/31/15)
6k - 23:01 - NCAA Division I Southeast Regional (11/14/14)

2014 Cross Country at Gardner-Webb: Opened her collegiate career with a two-mile time of 12:41 at the Western Carolina Invitational (Cullowhee, N.C.), finishing 25th ... Ran a personal best 5k time a the Big South Conference Championships (Boiling Springs, N.C.), finishing 19th with a mark of 19:10 ... Recorded a 6k time of 23:01 at the NCAA Southeast Region Championships (Louisville, Ky.).

Prior to Gardner-Webb: Ran cross country and track at Athens Christian School under coaches Sean Zuniga and Tim Cummings…Placed seventh in the state cross country championships...Finished in seventh place in the two mile and eighth in the mile at the GHSA State Track and Field Championships...Graduated Valedictorian of high school class...Finished with highest academic average in spanish 3, US government, anatomy & Physics.

Personal: Born September 8, 1995...Has eight siblings Emily, Alicia, Isaiah, Samantha, Micah, Jeremiah, Josiah, and Noah...Daughter of Philip and Ellen Cortese… Majoring in Exercise Science.