Anna Shults

Height:
5-8
Class:
Redshirt Sophomore
Hometown:
Lafayette, Colo.
High School:
Peak To Peak Charter
Major:
Strategic Communication (Creative Technology and Design Minor)

2019: Indoors: Did not compete (cross country)
Outdoors: Competed four times for the Buffs, running one 1500m and then focusing on the 800m ...

2019: Indoors: Redshirted
Outdoors: Canceled (Coronavirus)

CROSS COUNTRY:
2019: Redshirted

HIGH SCHOOL: A four-time Colorado High School Activities Association 3A cross country runner-up, Shults helped Peak to Peak Charter win the state team title in 2016 and ’17. A letter winner in both cross country and track and field, she raced for Team USA in Andorra at the 2018 World Mountain Running Championships, where she placed 14^th overall and was the top American. That same year, Shults again raced for Team USA and placed seventh at the WMRA World Cup International Youth Challenge in Italy. She also saw success on the track and won four straight 4x800-meter relay state titles (2016-19). Individually as a senior, she was third at state in the 800 and sixth in the 1,600. Shults was third in both events as a junior and during her sophomore season; she was the state champion in both. Shults was an all-league first team member throughout high school and was inducted into the Colorado Running Hall of Fame in 2019, earning the High School Achievement Award. Additionally, she was named Peak to Peak’s Outstanding Athlete of the Year (2017, ’18). A member of the Dean’s List, she recorded a 4.0 in high school. NC State, Oregon and Northern Arizona also recruited Shults.

HIGH SCHOOL BESTS: 800-meters: 2:13.73; 1,500-meters: 4:39.92; Mile: 4:57.61; 3,200-meters: 10:46.24.

IN THE CLASSROOM: Shults intends to major in strategic communication.

PERSONAL: Anna Catherine Shults was born on September 21, 2001, in Lafayette, Colo. She is the daughter of John and Lynne Shults and has one sister, Madison. She enjoys reading, hiking, drawing, paddle boarding and photography. She is also a Nordic skier and was a member of the Boulder Nordic Junior Race Team for five years. While a member of the ski team, Shults was named an All-American.