Claire Richardson

Claire Richardson

Year: Junior
Hometown: St. Paul, Minn.
High School: The Blake School
House Affiliation: Lowell

Honors and Awards
All-Regional (cross country, 2007, 2008, 2009)
USTFCCCA Academic All-American (cross country, 2007 & 2008)
First-team All-Ivy League (cross country, 2008, 2009; indoors, 2009; outdoors, 2009)
Second-team All Ivy-League (outdoors, 2009)
Academic All-Ivy League (2009)
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 1 second team (2009)
Women's Most Valuable Performer Award (2009)

Personal Bests
1,500 meters - 4:26.82
Mile - 4:30.30
3,000 meters - 9:30.30
5,000 meters - 16.43.99 (Seventh All-Time)
XC 5k - 17:28.1
XC 6k - 21:17

2009-10
Won the Harvard/Yale dual meet with a time of 17:42.34, helping the Crimson to its biggest win over the Bulldogs since 2001 … First among Harvard runners and 32st overall at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational with a personal best time of 21:19.0 … Earned first-team All-Ivy League at Heps Championships … First Harvard runner and sixth overall to cross the finish line at the Heps Championships … Ran a personal best time of 17:28.1 to help the Crimson to a runner-up finish, its best performance at the conference event since 1995 ...  Earned all-region honors ... Second among Harvard runners and eighth overall at the NCAA Regionals with a time of 22:28, helping the team earn a fifth-place finish at the event ... Qualified for the NCAA National Cross Country Championships ... Placed 100th overall out of 254 runners at the NCAA Championships with a personal best time of 21:17.

2008-09
First-team All-Ivy recipient ... Earned All-Region honors ... Top Harvard finisher at every meet this fall ... Finished seventh overall at the H-Y meet ... Was the 65th runner to cross the finish line in the white race at the Pre-Nationals ... Placed fourth overall the Heptagonal Championships for top finish by a Crimson runner since 1995 ... Was seventh at the NCAA Regional meet, earning a spot at the NCAA Championships ... Finished 144 out of 252 at the NCAA Championships ... Earned first-team All-Ivy honors ... Won the 3,000 meter run at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships ... Finished sixth in the 5,000 meter run at the Terrier Invitational and won the mile at the Battle of Beantown ... Captured first place in the 3,000 meter run and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships at the HYP meet ... Named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 1 second team … A member of the USTFCCCA Academic and Academic All-Ivy League teams … Won the 3,000 meters at the Heptagonal Championships … Finished second in the 5,000 meters at the outdoor conference meet … Ran the seventh fastest time in Harvard history for the 5,000 meters … Recipient of the Women’s Most Valuable Performer Award … Earned first-team All-Ivy League honors for first-place finish in the 5,000 meters and second-team All-Ivy League honors for her second-place finish in the 3,000 meters … A member of the distance medley relay team that broke the school record and finished sixth at the Drake Relays … Also on the 4x1,600 relay team that finished fourth at the Drake Relays.

2007-08
Placed seventh in the 3,000 meters at the Outdoor Heptagonal Championships ... Ran a season and team-best 9:57.41 in the 3,000 meters at the Outdoor ECAC Championships ... Finished fifth in the mile at the Battle of Beantown ... Ran an ECAC qualifying time in the 5,000 meters at the St. Valentine Invitational ... Hit an ECAC qualifying time of 9:47.63 in the 3,000 meters at the HYP meet, placing third ... Ran the 1,500 meters in 4:36.75 to place fifth overall at the Sam Howell Invitational ... Finished third in the mile at the Brown Invitational (4:58.43) ... Top Harvard finisher and 43rd runner overall at the Paul Short Run ... Finished fifth at the UAlbany Invitational ... Was 19th at the Heptagonal Championships and 22nd at NCAA regionals.

Personal
Accomplished runner who finished career at the Blake School with eight all-state selections in cross country and track ... Four consecutive top-five state cross country finishes, including runner up finish as a senior... School record holder in the mile (5:08) ... Member of the state champion track team junior year ... Member of Cum Laude Society ... AP scholar with distinction ... Placed in the top 15 in the nation for Concours National de Francais ... Father Jim (’72) was a Harvard crew member and mother Dorothy (’72) was a member of both swimming and rowing teams for Radcliffe ... Outside interests include photography, camping, being outside and downhill skiing.

Concentration
history and science