2019-20 Track and Field Roster
Constien, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Constien
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Edwards, Colo.
- High School:
- Battle Mountain
Bio
NCAA QUALIFYING
2021 10,000-meter run (Preliminaries)
2021: Indoors: Did not compete. (Cross country).
Outdoors: Raced six times for the Buffs ... Ran the 5k and 10k at the PAC-12 Championships, scoring for the Buffs in the 10k with a personal best time of 34:10.85 and 7th place finish ... Qualified for the NCAA West Regional Championships where she placed 29th.
2020: Indoors: Raced four times for the Buffs ... Raced the 3k and 5k at the MPSF Indoor Championships, setting a 3k personal best of 9:44.64 in the process.
Outdoors: Canceled (coronavirus).
2019: Indoors: Redshirted
Outdoors: Ran at both home meets as well as at the Bryan Clay Invitational.
CROSS COUNTRY:
2019: Finished 13th at Pre-Nats ... Was 64th at the Pac-12 Championships and 43rd at Regionals ... Was an alternate on the NCAA team.
2018: Redshirted
HIGH SCHOOL: Constien earned letters as a member of the Battle Mountain High School cross country, skiing and track and field teams. She won the Colorado 4A State Cross Country Championship as a senior with the third fastest course time (18:03.9) after placing second at the meet in 2016. After winning the state title in 2017, Constien went on to place 10th at the NXR Southwest Regional Championships and was 58th at the NXN Nike Cross Nationals. During her time at BMHS, the Huskies won back-to-back state cross country titles (2016 and ’17), earned runner-up state honors (2015) and won the Western Slope League and regional championships (2014-17). On the track, her high school team won the WSL title three times (2015, ’17 and ’18). Constien also excelled in the classroom. She was an AP Scholar with distinction two consecutive years and her GPA was in the top 10% of her high school class all four years. Constien earned academic all-state first team honors in cross country, skiing and track and field her junior and senior years. Other schools that recruited Constien include UCLA, Syracuse, Duke, Brown, Oklahoma and Idaho State.
HIGH SCHOOL BESTS: 800-meters: 2:22; 1,600-meters: 5:12; 3,200-meters: 11:02.
IN THE CLASSROOM: Constien intends to major in film and is also interested in Spanish.
PERSONAL: Elizabeth Kathleen Constien was born on June 8, 2000 in Vail, Colo. She is the daughter of Ron and Ann Constien. Her older sister, Val, is a member of the Colorado cross country and track & field team. Constien started studying Spanish in second grade and is now bilingual. She has been reading and performing music since she can remember, whether it be piano, singing or playing in the middle and high school band. Constien enjoys writing stories, watching movies, hunting, snowmobiling, dirt-biking, skiing and paddle boarding.
2021 10,000-meter run (Preliminaries)
2021: Indoors: Did not compete. (Cross country).
Outdoors: Raced six times for the Buffs ... Ran the 5k and 10k at the PAC-12 Championships, scoring for the Buffs in the 10k with a personal best time of 34:10.85 and 7th place finish ... Qualified for the NCAA West Regional Championships where she placed 29th.
2020: Indoors: Raced four times for the Buffs ... Raced the 3k and 5k at the MPSF Indoor Championships, setting a 3k personal best of 9:44.64 in the process.
Outdoors: Canceled (coronavirus).
2019: Indoors: Redshirted
Outdoors: Ran at both home meets as well as at the Bryan Clay Invitational.
CROSS COUNTRY:
2019: Finished 13th at Pre-Nats ... Was 64th at the Pac-12 Championships and 43rd at Regionals ... Was an alternate on the NCAA team.
2018: Redshirted
HIGH SCHOOL: Constien earned letters as a member of the Battle Mountain High School cross country, skiing and track and field teams. She won the Colorado 4A State Cross Country Championship as a senior with the third fastest course time (18:03.9) after placing second at the meet in 2016. After winning the state title in 2017, Constien went on to place 10th at the NXR Southwest Regional Championships and was 58th at the NXN Nike Cross Nationals. During her time at BMHS, the Huskies won back-to-back state cross country titles (2016 and ’17), earned runner-up state honors (2015) and won the Western Slope League and regional championships (2014-17). On the track, her high school team won the WSL title three times (2015, ’17 and ’18). Constien also excelled in the classroom. She was an AP Scholar with distinction two consecutive years and her GPA was in the top 10% of her high school class all four years. Constien earned academic all-state first team honors in cross country, skiing and track and field her junior and senior years. Other schools that recruited Constien include UCLA, Syracuse, Duke, Brown, Oklahoma and Idaho State.
HIGH SCHOOL BESTS: 800-meters: 2:22; 1,600-meters: 5:12; 3,200-meters: 11:02.
IN THE CLASSROOM: Constien intends to major in film and is also interested in Spanish.
PERSONAL: Elizabeth Kathleen Constien was born on June 8, 2000 in Vail, Colo. She is the daughter of Ron and Ann Constien. Her older sister, Val, is a member of the Colorado cross country and track & field team. Constien started studying Spanish in second grade and is now bilingual. She has been reading and performing music since she can remember, whether it be piano, singing or playing in the middle and high school band. Constien enjoys writing stories, watching movies, hunting, snowmobiling, dirt-biking, skiing and paddle boarding.
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