Molly Lawrence

Returnee
Junior
Plainfield, Ill. (Central)

2008:  Finished 45th at the CCIW Women’s Cross Country Championship with a time of 24:52.00…ran a season-best 24:18.90 at the Wisconsin-Oshkosh Invitational.

2007:  Finished 41st at the CCIW Women’s Cross Country Championship with a time of 25:28.00…finished 98th at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a career-best time of 23:53.82.

High School:  Earned All-South Suburban Conference honors both her junior and senior years…earned all-regional honors as a junior…both her sophomore and junior-year team won conference titles, and her junior-year squad won a regional championship…coached by Jenna Zayid…four-year member of the track and field team…four-year honor student.

Personal:  Elementary education major…distance runner on the 2008 and 2009 Carthage women’s track and field teams…named to the Carthage dean’s list three times and a four-semester member of the Carthage athletic director’s honor roll…her father, Steve Lawrence, is a longtime high school cross country and track and field coach and works currently at Plainfield Central High School…born Aug. 8, 1989.