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Katie Van Horn                  Class: Senior Hometown: Glendora, N.J. High School: Triton Regional Last College: Richmond Height: 5-6 Position: Distance

TENNESSEE:

2008: Was a two-event SEC Indoor Championships scorer and qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships for the first time in her career...Ran a personal best of 9:33.09 to finish third in the 3000 meters at the conference meet...Came back on day two to take fifth in the 5000m in 16:37.84...Covered the 5K distance in 16:33.28 to finish 11th in her first NCAA oval race...Ran her personal best in that event at the Tyson Invitational, placing second in the championship division in 16:24.28 and notching the third-fastest mark in Lady Vol history...Ran a previous 3K PR of 9:35.97 to win at the Rod McCravy meet...Outdoors, Katie saw limited action due to injury...She came up just shy of scoring at the SEC meet with a 10th-place effort of 16:49.63 in the 5000m...Logged an NCAA provisional in the 10K at the Penn Relays, crossing the line third in the championship division...Did well scholastically, though, garnering USTFCCCA All-Academic and SEC Academic Honor Roll recognition...2007: Became a league meet scorer in her second season at UT...During the indoor campaign, she fashioned a fourth-place effort in the 5000m at the SEC Indoor Championships, logging a time of 16:43.22 to help UT win its second conference team title in the past three seasons...Opened the campaign with a 5K career best, using her 16:34.09 performance to claim victory at the Penn State National Invitational...Took third in the 5K at the Tyson Invitational by improving her PR to 16:32.79...Also ran the 3000 meters at the SEC meet, but her 9:48.58 clocking placed her 14th...Posted a 3K best earlier in the season at the Kentucky Invitational with a fifth-place showing of 9:43.21...Lowered her best mile time to 4:53.52 in a sixth-place readout at the Rod McCravy Memorial...Outdoors, Katie posted career bests in every race she ran...Ran the third-fastest 10,000-meter race ever by a Lady Vol and moved to number two on the UT all-time performers list with a 34:34.91 NCAA provisional readout at the Stanford Invitational...Posted a PR in the 5000 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays, covering the distance in 16:45.65 to secure eighth place...That mark qualified her for the regional meet, but she was unable to run due to injury...For her work in the classroom, she was named to SEC Academic Honor Roll as well as the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team...2006: Katie transferred to UT in January of 2006 and competed in three meets indoors...Had a pair of personal bests at the Tyson Invitational, running 9:58.21 to take ninth in the 3K and covering the mile in 5:04.51 for 20th place...Ran a 10:12.33 3K race at the Penn State National Invitational earlier in the season...Closed out the indoor campaign by doubling in the 3000 and 5000 meters at the SEC Championships...Wound up 13th in the shorter race at 9:58.38 but did not finish the longer race...Outdoors, Katie appeared in four competitions, charting outdoor PRs in three different events...Posted her fastest outdoor 3K effort to date, checking in eighth at the Sea Ray Relays in 10:29.59...Also anchored the Big Orange DMR to ninth at that home meet in 12:03.80...Lowered her outdoor 5K time to 17:27.69 but was 19th at the SEC Championships.

RICHMOND:

FALL 2005: Katie was an All-Atlantic 10 selection in cross country during the fall and collected A-10 Rookie of the Week honors three times...Placed eighth individually at the A-10 meet with a time of 18:26.7 over 5,000 meters...Her effort helped the Spiders finish third as a team...Notched a 28th-place result at the difficult NCAA Southeast Regional, just missing all-region accolades with a 21:14.7 readout for 6K.

HIGH SCHOOL:

Was an all-state performer in cross country and track at Triton Regional High School in Runnemede, N.J....Won the 2005 New Jersey Group IV title in the 3200 meters with a career-best time of 10:40...Also claimed a 3200m crown at the 2005 Meet of Champions with a readout of 10:44...Took second in the group meet in the 1600m in a personal-record 4:59...Placed seventh in the 3000 meters in the 2005 Penn Relays, covering the distance in 10:08...Her 3K time ranked her seventh nationally among prep seniors, while her 3200m performance placed her ninth among high school seniors.

PERSONAL:

Katie is enrolled in the College of Business and is majoring in statistics...She has two siblings: Alicia, 26, and Brett, 24...Catherine Janel Van Horn was born in Abington, Pa., on Nov. 21, 1986.