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Julia Palin Season 2024

Position
Distance
Height
5'4
Class
Graduate Student
Hometown
Norton, Mass.
High School
Norton HS

Julia Palin’s TFRRSXC profile (for top performances and meet results)

2022 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2021 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2020 All-LSWA Women’s Cross-Country Team
2020 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2019 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2018-19 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2023 (GRADUATE STUDENT)
Did not compete.

2022 (REDSHIRT SENIOR)
Did not compete.

2021 (REDSHIRT JUNIOR)
Did not compete.

2020 (REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE)
Placed 31st at the SEC Cross Country Championships with a time of 21:06.6 in the 6k event and was the second LSU runner to finish … competed in all four meets for the Tigers this season earning a bronze medal in two of them … finished in third place in the 6k run with a time of 20:44.9 at the Arturo Barrios Invitational … recorded a third place finish by running a time of 17:41.1 in the 3k at the Florida State Invitational … ran through the finish line in 16th place in her season debut at the LSU SEC Preview Meet with a time of 17:51.7.

2019 (SOPHOMORE)
Did not compete.

2018 (FRESHMAN)
Became the first woman in program history to be named SEC Freshman Runner of the Week after her second-place finish at the LSU Invitational with a 3k time of 18:13.3 that helped lead LSU to the team title … competed at and scored at all six meets for the Tigers … was LSU’s top finisher at five of the six meets … took 36th at the SEC Championships with a 6k time of 20:21.4 … earned a 22nd-place finish at the Arturo Barrios Invitational (6k/21:28.3) … finished 36th at the Joe Piane Invitational with a 5k readout of 17:37.92 … helped LSU win titles at the LSU Invitational (2nd/18:13.29/three mile) and McNeese Season Opener (2nd/10:13.8/3k).

PRIOR TO LSU – Norton HS
Competed for Norton High School in Norton, Mass. … 2018 outdoor track Tri-Valley League co-MVP … 2018 Norton High School Female Athlete of the Year … a three-time Tri-Valley all-star … four-time Sun Chronicle all-star … took second place at the 2018 New Balance Nationals in the Emerging Elite two-mile run … placed 15th in the 800 meter run at the 2018 Indoor New Balance Nationals in a school record time of 2:16.48 … won three state titles as a senior in the two-mile run, 1,000 meter run and as an anchor leg of the 4×800 meter relay … finished runner up at the 2018 MIAA State Championships in the two mile run during the outdoor season with a personal best and school record time of 10:57.58 … took sixth at the New England Championships in the 1,000 meter run with a school record and personal best readout of 2:56.95 … set 15 school records during her high school career (seven individual and eight relays) … served as a three-sport team captain during her senior season… awarded with JFK Award for math in high school… Boston Globe and Boston Herald 2018 All-Scholastic honoree… National Honor Society member.

PERSONAL
Born on August 9, 2000, in Norton, MA… daughter of Leigh Anne and Rick Palin … has one sibling – Jake… plans to pursue a degree in kinesiology at LSU.

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