2003-04
Cross Country: Competed in two meets...finished second at the Rice Invitational and 19th at Hawaíi's Big Wave Classic. Outdoor: Finished 13th at Conference USA Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase...registered a tenth-place finish in the 5,000-meter race at the LSU Relays with a time of 19:15.92...Had a season-best time of 4:56.50 in the 1500 meters at the LSU Alumni Gold Invitational.
2002-03
Cross Country: Sat out the season as a redshirt. Indoor: Registered a fourth-place finish in the 3,000-meter race at the Houston Invitational with a season-best time of 10:24.11...had a seventh-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the Armory Invitational with a season-best time of 17:38.30. Outdoor: Had a fourth-place finish in the steeplechase at the Texas Relays with a season-best time of 11:03.31...also finished in fourth place at the Texas Invitational and in 12th place at the Conference USA Championships..had a third-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the LSU Alumni Gold meet.
2001-02
Cross Country: Houston's top runner in five of the six meets in which she competed...won the Houston Invitational and finished eighth in the Texas A&M Invitational...finished in 19th place at the Conference USA Championships. Indoor: Finished sixth in the mile at the Leonard Hilton Memorial...best time in the mile was 5:15.41 at the Conference USA Championships...also had a fifth-place finish in the 3,000 meters at the UH/RunSport All-Comers meet and a sixth-place finish with a season-best time of 10:35.69 in the 3,000 meters at the LSU Purple Tiger Invitational. Outdoor: Finished third in the steeplechase with a career-best time of 10:38.40 at the Conference USA Championships...also finished third at the Texas Relays and second at the Longhorn Invitational.
2000-01
Cross Country: Competed in all seven meets for the Lady Cougars...best finish came at the Rice Invitational where she posted a ninth-place finish with a time of 12:42.63. Indoor: Her season-best 1000-meter time of 3:10.38 came in a fourth-place finish at the Oklahoma Classic... at the UH/RunSport All-Comers Meet she had a season-best mile time of 5:23.23 which was good for 14th place...member of the distance medley relay team that placed seventh at the C-USA Championships. Outdoor: Recorded a season-best 1500-meter time of 4:49.32 in route to a 10th-place finish at the LSU Alumni Gold Invitational...in the 3,000-meter steeplechase she registered her season-best time of 11:19.79 at the C-USA Championships.
High School
Was team captain at Northwestern High School...she competed in track and cross country...in track she placed in the Ohio state championships four consecutive years...in cross country she placed in state twice...she was a major part in Northwestern's two district championships in soccer and one in basketball.
Personal
Born November 20, 1981, in Springfield, Ohio...daughter of Terry and Patti Oakes of Springfield...majoring in kinesiology.
