Bio

Honors & Awards

• Three-time A-R-C All-Academic Team (2022, 23, 24)
• Team SC Award Winner (2024)
• Three-time Letterwinner (2022, 23, 24)

2024 | senior

• Competed in five races
• Recorded a season-high 11th place finish at the Brissman-Lundeen Invitational
• Ran a season-best 6K time of 25:02.7 at the NCAA Midwest Regional

2023 | junior

• Competed in one race, the A-R-C Championship, clocking a time of 26:09.7

2022 | sophomore

• Saw action in three races for the Storm
• One of four Storm runners named to the A-R-C All-Academic Team

High School

• A 2021 graduate of GMG High School
• Academic All-State and All-District in basketball (2021)
• Class valedictorian
• Iowa Governor's Scholarship recipient

Personal

• Parents are Tammy and Bill Backoff and Mike and Hazel Schewe
• Has one sibling, Grace
• Double majoring in english and educational studies with a minor in honors
• Also a member of the Storm track and field team