Rachel Sharpe

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

PERSONAL BESTS
INDOOR
Pentathlon: 3,110 (2016)
60-meter hurdles: 9.78 (2016)
High Jump: 5-1.25/1.56m (2016)
Shot Put: 28-2.75/8.60m (2016)
Long Jump: 17-3.25/5.26m (2016)
800-meters: 2:26.13 (2016)
OUTDOOR
Heptathlon: 3,831 (2016)
100-meter hurdles: 16.37 (2016)
High Jump: 4-11.75/1.52m (2016)
Shot Put: 30-3/9.22m (2016)
200-meters: 25.83
Long Jump: 16-4.50/5.15m (2016)
Javelin: 57-11.25/17.65m (2016)
800-meters: 2:19.24 (2016)
100-meters: 12.64
400-meters: 57.14
Triple Jump: 35-2.50

2016: Indoor: Sharpe competed in two pentathlons as a freshman. She recorded a season best score (3,110) at the Air Force Invite (1/21), placing seventh in the process. Sharpe earned season bests in three events at the meet: 60-meter hurdles (9.78), shot put (28-2.75) and the 800 (2:26.13). She did well in her very first pentathlon, placing 16^th at the CSM Alumni Classic with 3,044 points.
Outdoor: Sharpe saw action in one heptathlon, earning a score of 3,831 at the California Invitational. There she recorded two personal records and another season best. Her PRs were in the shot put (30-3) and 800-meters (2:19.24), and her other season best was in the 200 (26.06).

HIGH SCHOOL: Sharpe was on the NHS team that won the 2013-15 Colorado 4A State Track & Field Championship. She was a member of the 4x400 relay that won the state title in 2013 and 14, as well as the 4x200 relay that won the state championship her senior year in meet record time (1:41.13). She also placed fifth at the 2015 Colorado State High School meet in the 400, clocking 57.14. Sharpe was an all-conference selection all four years and was a two-time all-state selection her junior and senior years. Sharpe graduated in the top 2 percent of her class. She was the NHS Student Body Vice-President her senior year and was class president her sophomore and junior years.

HIGH SCHOOL BESTS: 100-meters: 12.64; 200-meters: 25.83; 400-meters: 57.14; 800-meters: 2:25.37; Long Jump: 16-4.50; Triple Jump: 35-2.50.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Sharpe is majoring in electrical engineering.

PERSONAL: Rachel Mae 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, Lauren, who is also a heptathlete at CU. She enjoys running, hiking, acting and reading. Sharpe served as a student member of the Niwot High School Board of Education.