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AS A GRADUATE STUDENT IN 2002: Finished the season as Santa Clara's top runner and earned the team's Most Valuable Performer award ... top finish was a 1st-place effort at the Bronco Invitational with a 5,000-meter time of 17:44 ... top performance was an 17:28.88 clocking at the Willamette Invitational, which was good for 11th place ... finished 2nd at the WCC Championships at Crystal Springs with a time of 18:05 ... earned first-team all-WCC honors ... Named the WCC Women's Cross Country Athlete of the Month in October ... posted a 6,000-meter time of 23:12 at the NCAA West Regionals and finished 59th overall ... posted four top-10 finishes in six meets on the season. WHILE AT ARIZONA: One of Arizona's top five runners throughout the 2001 cross country season ... academic all-Pac-10 honorable mention selection ... finished seventh at the Murray Keatinge Invitational in Maine with a 5,000-meter time of 18:00.7 ... Finished 33rd at the West Regional and 77th at the NCAA Championships ... Ran 17:36.75 in the 5,000-meters and 35:0.53 in the 10,000-meters during the 2002 track and field season ... Ran 22:00.8 in the 6,000-meter Pacific-10 Conference championships and finished 21st overall ... ran the team’s second-best 10,000-meter time of the year, 35:35.72, at the Mt. SAC Relays in the 2001 track and field season ... also had a 5000-meter best of 17:19.90 during the season at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational ... finished ninth in the 10,000m at the Pac-10 Championships, running 36:35.74 ... Bates was a key contributor to the 2000 cross country team ... was the team's No. 4 runner throughout most of the season ... Finished eighth (23:05.9) at the Purdue Invitational and was 28th (17:55) at the Notre Dame Invitational ... was the team's No. 3 runner in 25th (21:42.50) at the Pac-10 Championships ... during the 2000 track and field season, ran 4:56.65 in the 1500-meters and 10:21.86 indoors in the 3000-meters ... finished 12th at the Aztec Invitational early in the 1999 cross country season ... was the Wildcats' No. 4 runner and 30th overall at the Pac-10 Championships ... placed 53rd at the NCAA West Regional and 225th at the NCAA Championships. HIGH SCHOOL INFORMATION: A 1998 graduate of Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, Calif. ... earned four letters in both track and field and cross country ... competed in the 800-meters, mile and two-mile on the track... team captain in 1998 and was the cross country team's MVP in '97 ... won the Sunset League title in the 3200-meters as a junior ... competed in Junior Olympics throughout high school ... four-year member of the honor roll. PERSONAL DATA: Born February 29, 1980 in Los Alamitos, Calif. ... daughter of Ronald and Marilyn Bates... father attended USC, while mother attended UC Berkeley ... has one younger sister, Andrea ... enjoys the beach and snowboarding ... earned degree in psychology with a business administration minor as an undergraduate at Arizona.
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