Lauren Sharpe

Position:
Combined Events
Height:
5-8
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Longmont, Colo.
High School:
Niwot

PERSONAL BESTS
INDOOR
Pentathlon: 2,994 (2016)
60-meter hurdles: 10.09 (2016)
High Jump: 5-1.25/1.56m (2016)
Shot Put: 28-8.50/8.75m (2016)
Long Jump: 16-5.75/5.02m (2016)
800-meters: 2:32.85 (2016)
OUTDOOR
Heptathlon: 3,898 (2016)
100-meter hurdles: 16.29 (2016)
High Jump: 5-2
Shot Put: 27-1.25/8.26m (2016)
200-meters: 26.45
Long Jump: 16-8.75/5.10m (2016)
Javelin: 76-6/23.33m (2016)
800-meters: 2:29.88 (2016)
100-meters: 13.16
400-meters: 1:01.4

2016: Indoor: Sharpe competed in a pair of pentathlons in her first season with the Buffs. She recorded a season best score of 2,994 at the Air Force Invite (1/21), which placed ninth overall. At the meet, Sharpe recorded season bests in the long jump (16-5.75) and the 800 (2:32.85). Her other pentathlon was at the CSM Alumni Classic (12/11). There she placed 18^th with 2,942 points.
Outdoor: Sharpe competed in one heptathlon for the Buffs, finishing with 3,898 points at the California Invitational. She recorded a pair of season best marks at the Tom Benich Open. Sharpe recorded a time of 16.29 in the 100-meter hurdles and 26.81 in the 200.

HIGH SCHOOL: Sharpe was on the NHS team that won the 2013-15 Colorado 4A State Track & Field Championship. In 2015, she was a member of the 4x200-meter relay team that broke the state meet record in 1:41.13, the 4x400-relay team that placed second and the sprint medley relay that placed third. Sharpe was named to the Academic All-State First Team all four years. She graduated in the top 10 percent of her class and was on the student council all four years. Sharpe served as junior class and sophomore class president. Sharpe was also selected to be on the student advisory committee.

HIGH SCHOOL BESTS: 100-meters: 13.16; 200-meters: 26.45; 400-meters: 1:01.4; 800-meters: 2:33.87; High Jump: 5-2.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Sharpe is majoring in environmental engineering.

PERSONAL: Lauren Christine Sharpe was born on March 26, 1997 in Boulder, Colo. She is the daughter of Glenn Sharpe and Lynn Sharpe. She has one older sister, Elizabeth, who is studying integrative physiology at CU, and a twin sister, Rachel, who is also a heptathlete at CU. She enjoys drawing, hiking, biking, drama (acting) and running. Sharpe has been involved in drama since her freshman year of high school. During the summer leading up to her senior year of high school, Sharpe did an internship at the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Boulder, working with a scientist to help prepare for a research project that would take place the following summer (2015) called PECAN (Plain Elevated Convection at Night) field study. She studied elevated and surface based thunderstorms from radar data throughout the Southern Great Plains.