2001-02
Cross Country: Competed in all six meets...best performance was at the Houston Invitational with a fifth place finish. Indoor: : Finished in 10th place with a season-best time of 10:15.07 in the 3000 meters and eighth in the 5000 meters at the Conference USA Indoor: Championships...best performance in the 3K was a second-place finish at the Southwest Invitational... finished in seventh place in the 5000 meters with a season-best time of 17:44.73 at the Tyson Invitational...also finished in second place at the Houston Invitational. Outdoor: : Finished in second place in the 5000 meters at the Texas A&M Invitational and Tellez Invitational...her time of 17:34.77 at the Texas A&M meet was the fastest time on the team...finished fifth in the 10000 meters at the Texas Relays with a team-best time of 36:50.50...was 14th in the 10K and 15th in 5K at the C-USA Championships.
2000-01
Cross Country: Competed in all seven meets for the Lady Cougars...best performance came at the UTSA Invitational, where she finished 14th with a time of 20:25. Indoor: : Recorded her season-best time of 10:36.02 in the 3000 meters for a 16th-place finish at the Conference USA Championships...ran a 18:14.15 in the 5000 meters to place ninth at the C-USA championships...finished fourth in the 3000 meters at the Hilton Memorial Invitational...placed fourth in the 5000 meters at the Southwest Classic. Outdoor: : Posted a fifth-place finish in the 5000 meters with an Outdoor: season-best time of 17:59.65 at the LSU Alumni Gold Invitational...placed 12th in the 10000 meters at the Conference USA Championships with a time of 39:25.35.
College
Transfer from Lamar University where she performed in the 3000, 5000 and 10000 meters...recorded Lamar's third-fastest time in school history in the 10000 meters with 39:27.51 in 2000...also had the third-fastest Indoor: 3000-meters time in school history with 10:52.80.
High School
Competed in track and cross country for LaPorte High School... was named the Most Valuable Runner as a senior...was a regional qualifier in the 3200 meters as a senior...ran in state cross country championships twice and qualified for cross country regionals four times... performed in a production of "Singing in the Rain," in high school ...was a Texas Scholar and a member of Mu Alpha Theta.
Personal
Born April 14, 1981, in Pasadena, Texas... daughter of Gary and Nancy Howse of LaPorte, Texas... enjoys fishing, wake boarding and other water sports...majoring in exercise science.
