Alisa Meraz-Fishbein

Photo by: Scott Arnold, ProMotion Ltd.

Position:
Distance
Height:
5-4
Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Albuquerque, N.M.
High School:
Albuquerque
Major:
Journalism (Business and Creative Writing Minors)

NCAA QUALIFYING
2021 Steeplechase (Preliminaries)

PAC-12 SCORING
2021 Steeplechase, 8th (10:32.37)

2021: XC:

TF: -35th at Pac-12 (5000)

-12th at Pac-12 (3000S)

2020: XC: -10th at FSU Classic

-6th at Battle Born Collegiate Challenge

TF: -36th at NCAA Preliminaries (3000S)

-32nd at Pac-12 (5000)

-8th at Pac-12 (3000S)

2019: XC: -Redshirted

TF:

2021: Indoors: Did not compete. (Cross country)
Outdoors: Ran a pair of 1500-meter runs with a personal best at the GCU Antelope ... Transitioned to the steeplechase where she placed at the Pac-12 Championship in eighth ... Qualifed for the NCAA West Regional Championships where she placed 36th ... Finished with a personal best 10:28.33 ... Named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.

2020: Indoors: Redshirted
Outdoors: Canceled (coronavirus)

CROSS COUNTRY:
2020: Ran at the FSU Winter Classic and Battle Born Collegiate Challenge where she finished sixth.
2019: Redshirted

HIGH SCHOOL: Recorded three-straight top-10 finishes at the New Mexico State High School Cross Country 5A Championships, including a third-place finish as a junior... her team broke the sprint medley state record (4:11.10) en route to winning the state title in 2019; Meraz-Fishbein ran the anchor leg (800m) ... in the same meet, she placed second in the individual 800 and was third in the 1,600 ... as an eighth-grader, she won her first of three state titles in the 400 ... also won the 800 in her sophomore season, clocking a PR time of 2:15.90 ... was a midfielder on the school’s soccer team and earned a pair of all-district honors ... was named a National Merit Scholar Finalist, a National Hispanic Scholar, and Albuquerque High School Athlete of the Year.

HIGH SCHOOL BESTS: 800-meters: 2:15.90; 1,600-meters: 5:08; 3,200-meters: 11:21.10.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Journalism major ... owns a 3.98 GPA … member of the 2020 Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.

PERSONAL: Alisa Meraz-Fishbein ... born December 28, 2000 in San Antonio, Texas ... daughter of Jeremy Fishbein and Alicia Meraz of Albuquerque, N.M ... .has one sister, Gabriela ... father played soccer at IC Santa Barbara ... mother played tennis for University of New Mexico and played professionally, representing Mexico ... has dual citizenship with Mexico and the United States and is bilingual with Spanish as her first language.