University of Missouri Athletics

Brooks was a NCAA champion and four-time all-America performer on the track and the recipient of numerous prestigious academic honors. She ran a leg on MU‘s distance medley relay team which won the NCAA indoor championship in 2001, while setting what was then the school record. Her all-America honors came as a result of a second-place finish in the indoor 3,000-meter run (2001), a fifth-place finish in the outdoor 1,500-meter run (2001), a sixth-place finish in the outdoor 5,000-meter run (2002) and also in cross country, where she placed 29th in 2001. She left Mizzou as the outdoor record holder in the 1,500-meter run (4:18.66). Brooks was a four-time Big 12 Conference champion. She earned academic all-America status five times and in 2002 was a recipient of the prestigious NCAA Top VIII Award honoring a combination of athletic and academic achievement. She was also a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year award in 2002 and was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. She graduated from MU with a 4.01 grade point average in plant science.