Julia Palin Season 2022
2x Fall SEC Academic Honoree (2020, 2021)
2018-19 First Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
2018-19 USTFCCCA All-Academic Honoree
2021 (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
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.
Personal
Daughter of Leigh Anne and Rick Palin … has an older brother (Jake) … awarded with JFK Award for math in high school … Boston Globe and Boston Herald 2018 All-Scholastic honoree … National Honor Society member … has plans to major in kinesiology … chose LSU because it has always been her dream school and it is a blessing to be given the opportunity to further her academic and athletic career for LSU.