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NEW MEXICO:Promising long distance runner who was named Mountain West Conference Women's Freshman of the Year during the 2006 cross country season and has shown the potential to be one of the top runners in the MWC on the track when healthy...has indoor and outdoor redshirt seasons available...2007: (cross country) Scored in all 5 meets, running among the top-3 on the team in 4 races...was the Lobos' No. 3 runner at the MWC Championships (18th) and NCAA Mountain Region Championships (39th)...career-high 3rd place finish to help lead UNM to its first Lobo Invitational win in the season-opener...career-best 6K time of 21:32 at Oregon (54th overall)... 2006-07: (outdoor) Raced 3 times...won the 3,000m at Arizona and ranked third on the team with a season-best 5,000m time of 17:55.67 at San Diego...(indoor) Competed in 3 races with a top 3,000m time of 11:33.11...(cross country) Was the team's No. 3 runner in all five meets...notched a pair of top-20 finishes, including an 18th place (22:24.4) effort at the MWC Championships en route to MWC Freshman of the Year honors...was 11th in her collegiate debut at home in the Lobo Invitational...season-best 6K time of 22:08 at Stanford (35th)...40th at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championships in Albuquerque... HIGH SCHOOL:A 2006 graduate of Albuquerque Cibola High School...Albuquerque Public Schools Athlete of the Year in '06...two-time Albuquerque Tribune Girls Cross Country Athlete of the Year...5A state, district and city cross country champion as a senior...won seven of her eight races in 2005, including the New Mexico-Arizona Border Wars and Lobo Invitational meets...broke the Albuquerque Academy course record at the city meet with a time of 18:34 and her time of 18:29 was the fastest by a girl of any class at the state meet...finished third at the state meet as a junior and fourth as a sophomore...won back-to-back state titles in the 3,200-meter run on the track as a junior and senior (11:09.13)...runner-up in the 1,600 (5:09.90) in '06...clocked a PR time of 11:03 in the 3,200 as a senior and was third at the Great Southwest Classic (11:08.52)...PERSONAL:Born on Sept. 27, 1987 in Albuquerque, N.M...age is 20...full name is Vanessa Diane Ortiz...daughter of Harold and Janet Ortiz...has a brother, Brian (24) and sister, Valerie (26)...major is General Management. |
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