HIGH SCHOOL: Participated in cross country and track & field on the club circuit for five seasons and was team captain each year...She won national and regional cross country championships in 2005...Competed twice in the European Junior Cross Country Championships, charting a 13th-place finish in 2004 and a 23rd-place outcome in 2005...Placed 49th at the 2005 World Cross Country Junior Championships in 23:07 and was 2005 champion of the United Kingdom Cross Country Challenge...On the oval, Rose-Anne is a three-time Irish national high school champ in the 1500m, winning from 2003 to 2005 while also snaring an 800m crown in 2005 as well...Additionally, she claimed regional 800m and 1500m victories from 2003-05, setting a regional record in the 1500m in 2005 at 4:30...Her career bests include 2:08.61 for 800m, 4:22 for 1500m and 9:28.67 for the indoor 3000m...The 3K mark is an Irish indoor junior record and came in her first race at that length...Also owns Irish indoor junior mark in 1500m at 4:26...She is considered the best young distance runner in her home country...Earned her Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate from Newbridge College in Kildare, Ireland...
PERSONAL: Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...Hopes to major in geography, minor in elementary education and become a teacher...Chose UT over Providence and Villanova after visiting those schools on her recruiting visit to the U.S....Models herself after Irish running greats Eamonn Coughlin, Catherina McKiernan and Sonia O'Sullivan and British star Paula Radcliffe and would like to run in the Olympics one day...Her family is involved in racing horses, including Sir Gerard, winner of the 2006 Britannia Handicap, who is named after the elder of her brothers...Those siblings are Gerard, 15, and Mark, 10...Rose-Anne Galligan was born in Dublin, Ireland, on Dec. 9, 1987...Her parents are Gerry and Trish Galligan.
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