Kinsey Farren

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Dallas, Texas
High School:
Bishop Lynch

Personal Bests	Indoor	Outdoor
3,000m Run	9:56.76	10:05.60
5,000m Run	16:58.14	17:03.30
10,000m Run		32:12.14

YEAR-BY-YEAR

2011
Indoor: Ran primarily in the 5,000m run during the indoor season and clocked a personal-best time of 16:58.14 in the event, doing so at the Iowa State Classic, placing 16th overall ... Competed in the 5,000m and 3,000m runs at the Big 12 Championships as well. Outdoor: NCAA Preliminary Round qualifier in the 10,000m run with a season- and personal-best time of 35:12.14, set at the Stanford Invitational where she finished 18th overall ... Finished 42nd at the NCAA Preliminary Round with a time of 35:12.14.

2010:
Indoor: Competed in both the 3,000m and 5,000m runs at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, highlighted by a time of 9:59.86 in the 3,000m run at the meet, a season-best in the event ... Ran 10:05.52 in the 3,000m run at the ISU Classic and was timed at 10:13.13 at the MU-KU Border Dual ... Ran in the 5,000m run at the Meyo Invitational and finished the race in 17:32.18. Outdoor: Ran in the 3,000m run at the Tom Botts Invitational and clocked a time of 10:05.60, a personal-best in the event ... Competed in the 5,000m run at the Oregon Pepsi Invitational and was clocked at 17:03.30, also a personal-best clocking ... Ran in the 10,000m run at the Big 12 Championships and was paced at 37:59.74.

2009:
Indoor: Did not compete. Outdoor: Ran in the 5,000m run at the Mt. SAC Relays, posting a time of 18:17.61.

2008:
Cross Country: Was Mizzou's first finisher in each of the Tigers' six races, including at the Big 12 Championships (47th) and the NCAA Midwest Regional (42nd) ... was overall winner at the SIU Early Bird ... placed second overall at the Missouri Cross Country Challenge ... took seventh overall at the Sean Earl Lakefront Invitational. Outdoor: Earned All-Big 12 honors with a sixth-place showing in the league meet at 10,000 meters ... won the 10k at the Drake Relays, becoming Mizzou's first female to win an individual track event at the meet since 1999 (Katie Meyer) ... was 10th at the conference meet at 5000 meters ... ran season's best 5000 meters of 17:35.18 at the Missouri Relays ... runner-up in the 3000 at the Jefferson Cup dual at Virginia. Indoor: Finished in tenth place at the Big 12 Indoor Championships after notching a personal best in the 5000m run with a time of 17:15.37 ... scored another PR in the 3000m run (9:56.76) at the Iowa State Classic, where she finished 18th ... claimed first place at the Missouri Invitational in the 3000m run, clocking a time of 10:05.11 ... finished in 23rd at the Big 12's in the 3000m run.

2007:
Cross Country: In her first season, was the Tigers' most dominant runner ... placed 26th overall at Big 12's and was the top Tiger finisher at 21:53 ... placed 39th at the Mideast Regional as Mizzou's second finisher ... was the first Tiger finisher in two of her three early races, finishing fifth overall at Vanderbilt at 18:24.91 and sixth at Bradley with a personal record 21:22 ... was the second Tiger finisher at the Griak clocking in at 22:39, good enough for 51st.

High School:
Was one of the top-40 high school cross country runners in the nation in 2006 with her tabbing into the Footlocker National Final where she finished 26th ... finished seventh at the USATF Junior Cross Country Championships in Boulder, Colo., in 2007, earning a spot on the IAAF World Cross Country team ... that team forwent the chance to travel to Kenya due to security concerns ... an eight-time Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) 6A State Champion, having won three- straight individual titles in the state's cross country championships, leading her team to state titles her frosh and sophomore years ... captured four titles at 3200 meters and twice captured gold at 1600 meters at the state meet ... broke TAPPS' 6A State Record at the two distances, having prep bests of 10:41 at 3200 meters and 5:00 at 1600 meters ... Farren's prep 5000-meter road-race personal best was at 16:56 ... high school coach - Steve McBride ... club team - Metroplex Striders.

Personal:
Daughter of Neil and Terie Farren ... chose Missouri over Arkansas, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, and Auburn ... born February 10, 1989 in Dallas.