LSU Gold

#0 Megan Szmajda Season 2026

Height
5'6
Class
Senior
Hometown
Crystal Lake, Ill. ,
High School
Prairie Ridge HS

Events: Distance

Junior season (2001)
Coming off a solid cross country season where she was consistently among the Lady Tigers’ top five runners … Came up with season best time of 5:43.42 in the mile at the LSU Last Ditch during the indoor season … Top 3,000-meter time was 11:17.41 at the LSU Twilight … Ran a time of 19:11.83 in the 5,000-meter run at the SEC Triangular at Bernie Moore Track Stadium.

Freshman season (2000)
In limited action during the indoor season she ran a season best time of 10:55.46 in the 3,000-meter run … Outdoors she ran a season best time of 10:42.17 at the SEC Quadrangular in Tuscaloosa … Ran a time of 11:10.05 to finish seventh at the U.S. Collegiate Series in Baton Rouge … Competed in the SEC Championships in the 5,000-meter run but did not finish.

Prep career
Was a member of Regional and Sectional Championship teams while at Prairie Ridge High School (Ill.) … Was a state qualifier both in track and field and cross country … PR’s of 11:27 in the 3,200, 5:21 in the 1,600, 4:59 in the 1,500 and 11:04 in the 3,000.

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