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Karissa Schweizer

Basic Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Born: 5/4/1996
  • Status: Active

Residences

  • Hometown: Urbandale, IA
  • High School: Dowling Catholic High School
  • College: University of Missouri

Athlete Info

  • Event: Indoor Track & Field, Outdoor Track & Field
  • Coach: Pascal Dobert
  • Agent: Thomas Ratcliffe
  • Sponsor: Nike
  • Club: Bowerman Track Club

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World Athletics Championships

  • 2019 World Outdoor Championships, ninth (5000m)
  • 2019 World Cross Country Championships, 56th

Other Career Highlights

  • 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, silver (5,000m, 10,000m)
  • 2019 USATF Indoor Championships, silver (3000m)
  • 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships, silver (5000m)
  • 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships, gold (5000m)
  • 2018 USATF Outdoor Championships, bronze (5000m, 10,000m)
  • 2018 NCAA Indoor Championships, gold (3000m, 5000m)
  • 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships, gold (5000m), silver (3000m)
  • 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships, silver (3000m)
  • 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships, bronze (5000m)
  • 2015 USATF Junior (U20) Championships, bronze (3000m)
  • 2013 USATF Junior (U20) Championships, eighth (1500m), 12th (3000m)

Personal

Parents are Mike and Kathy Schweizer...she has a younger brother, Ryan, and younger sister, Kelsey...She dabbled in many sports growing up from softball to soccer to basketball...with her Mom, Dad, and Grandpa all having been collegiate runners, she seemed destined to eventually settle on Track...Off the track Karissa sticks to the quiet, disciplined life of a professional runner...She enjoys baking, drawing, reading, and Netflix...She says the topic she’d feel most confident giving a TED Talk on is “all the different foods you can put Nutella on or in.”

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