SHANNON ROWBURY
Event: 1,500m
Height: 5-5
Weight: 115
PR: 800m - 2:01.03 (2008); 1,500m – 4:00.33 (2008); 3,000m - 8:55.19 (2008);
5,000m - 15:38.42 (2006)
Born: September 19, 1984 in San Francisco, Calif.
Current Residence: San Francisco, Calif.
High School: Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep ‘02
College: Duke ‘07
Coach: John Cook
Agent: Peter Stubbs
Club: Nike
Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials champion; 2008 USA Indoor champion; 2007 NCAA Indoor mile champion and 3,000m runner-up
Rowbury turned in the top performance ever by an American woman in the
Olympic 1,500m final. She ran a smart race from the gun, positioning herself in
the top six and out of trouble as the pace came through at 65.90 for 400m and
2:13.70 for 800m. She finished seventh in 4:03.58, the highest placing for an
American in the event...Rowbury entered the Olympic Trials as the prohibitive favorite in the women's
1,500 meters, and she delivered in convincing fashion. Strong and swirling winds
kept the field packed tightly through the first two laps. Just past 1,000m,
Rowbury took off and put on an impressive display of confident running and
crossed the finish line in 4:05.48 - a very fast time in unfavorable winds…On May 18, 2008 at the adidas Track Classic, Rowbury won the 1,500 meters in
four minutes, 1.06 seconds. It was the fifth-best time in U.S. history and under the Olympic "A" qualifying
standard. That effort followed her first competitive 1,500 meters of the outdoor
season on May 4 when Rowbury ran a then-personal best 4:07:59 at the Cardinal
Invitational in California, almost five seconds faster than her previous top
time… Rowbury has been on a gradual rise to global prominence as a
middle-distance runner. She won the 800 meters at the 2001 National Scholastic
Outdoor Championships while attending Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep School in San
Francisco, Calif. At Duke University, she finished second in the mile at the
2005 NCAA indoor championships and won the Atlantic Coast Conference Southeast
Region cross-country title that fall. She set her previous personal best in the
1,500 meters in July 2006 following redshirt indoor and outdoor seasons at Duke.
In 2007, she won the NCAA Indoor mile title and finished as the runner-up in the
3,000m. A stress fracture in her hip knocked her out of the 2007 outdoor
season…enjoys soccer and Irish dancing. Her official website is
www.shannonrowbury.com.
2008: 7th at Olympic Games (4:03.58), 4th in heats (4:03.89)...Olympic Trials champion (4:05.48)...2nd
at Paris (4:00.33)...5th at World Athletic Final (4:08.16)...4th in 800m at Nike Prefontaine Classic (2:01.03)…1st at adidas
Track Classic (4:01.61)…USA Indoor 3,000m champion (8:55.19)…1st at Payton
Jordan Invite (4:07.59)…1st in 800m at Duke Invite (2:02.76)...ranked #6 in the
world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 4:00.33.
2007: NCAA Indoor mile champion (4:44217) and 3,000m runner-up
(9:02.73)…did not compete outdoors due to injury (hip stress fracture)
2006: 6th at USA Outdoors (4:12.86)…NACAC U23 champion (4:20.57)…1st at
Bloomington (4:12.31)…9th in 3,000m at adidas Track Classic (9:03.61)…redshirted
indoor and outdoor collegiate seasons…55th at NCAA XC…NCAA Southeast region XC
champion…ACC XC champion…ranked #9 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 4:12.31.
2005: 8th at NCAA Outdoors…ACC Outdoor 1500m champion (4:14.81)…ECAC
Indoor 800m runner-up (2:06.58)… NCAA Southeast Region Indoor Athlete of the
Year…set school records in the 800m (2:06.58), Mile (4:38.66), 3000m (9:16.86)
and DMR (11:14.30) indoors and in the 1500m (4:14.81) and DMR (11:10.18)
outdoors.
6/24/09
