CAREER RESULTS AND PERSONAL BESTS
2015 Indoor and Outdoor Track:
2014 Indoor and Outdoor Track: Opened the indoor season with a fourth-place finish in the 5000 meter race at the Houston Opener. Took fifth at the McNeese Cowboy Invitational in the 3000. Finished sixth in the 10,000 at the Victor Lopez Classic with a time of 40:01.13. Wrapped up the outdoor season with a 17th-place finish in the 10,000 at the Southland Conference Outdoor Championships.
2012 OUTDOOR TRACK (FRESHMAN): Finished in the top five at the Border Olympics (3/3) with a time of 5:13.37 in the women’s 1500m … placed second in the women’s 3k at the Border Olympics (3/3) with a time of 11:11.04 … placed third in the women’s 5k at the Victor Lopez Classic (3/23) with a qualifying Southland Conference Championship time of 18:41.46 … placed just outside the top 10 in the women’s 1500m with a time of 5:00.86 at the Texas State Invitational (4/6) … clocked in a time of 11:26.92 in the 3k to finish third at the Texas Invitational (4/14) … placed third and fourth in the 10k and 5k with a time of 40:18.84 and a time of 19:02.15 respectively, at the Southland Conference Championships (5/11-13). Placed fourth and qualified for the Southland Conference Championships with a time of 10:39.32 in women’s 3k at the Jeff Davis Bank McNeese Indoor Meet (2/3) … clocked in a time of 5:19.84 in the women’s one mile to finish second for the Islanders at the McNeese State Cowboy Indoor Meet (1/13) … competed in four events during the season.
2011 CROSS COUNTRY (FRESHMAN): Teamed up with Jasmine Boutte at the UTPA Bronc Relays (9/2) to finish in the top five with a time of 48:07 … clocked in a time of 15:07 in the women’s 4k at the Rice Invite (9/16) to finish seventh … crossed the finish line in fifth place with a time of 19:59 in the women’s 5k at the Islander Splash (9/23) … ran a season-best time of 22:50.9 in the women’s 6k at the Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival (10/15) … competed in the women’s 6k at the Southland Conference Championships (10/31) and NCAA Regional (11/12).
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran at Smithson Valley High School in Reno, Nev. … finished first in the mile at districts, first in the two-mile at districts and third at regionals … finished 17th at the cross country state meet … earned Academic All-State in track and cross country.
PERSONAL: Born Shelby Polasek on June 3, 1992, in Reno, Nev. … parents are Jim and Lisa Polasek … has two siblings … major is undeclared.
