Nicole Stone Season 2007-08

EventsSPRINTS/HURDLES
Height5-6
ClassJunior
HometownOntario, Calif.

2007
An NCAA Championships and West Region qualifier ... Competed in the 400 at the national meet and the 400, 400 hurdles and 4x400 relay at regionals ... qualified regionally in the 4x100, but did not compete ... punched her ticket to the national meet in the 400 after running 54.21 and finishing in fourth place at regionals ... just missed qualifying for nationals in the 4x400 relay with Sherraine Pencil, Mandy Upuu and Priscilla Chapu after they finished fourth with a time of 3:38.22 ... ran a season-best 53.72 in the 400 at the Mountain West Conference Championships ... earned all-conference honors in the 4x400 after turning in a second-place and regional-qualifying effort of 3:37.50 ... regionally qualified in the 400 and 4x100 in two consecutive meets, the Aztec Invitational and Trojan invitational ... overall, she qualified for the 400 four times, the 4x100 three times and the 4x400 and 400 hurdles two times apiece ... her first 400 hurdles competition came in the last meet of the regular season, the Claremont Classic, and ran 1:02.46 ... her next time out, she ran 59.43 in the preliminaries of the league championships to qualify for regionals ... wound up finishing in fourth place in the event with another qualifying time of 59.21 ... won the 4x100 titles at the San Diego City Championships and Triton Invitational, the 400 crown at San Diego City and the 400 hurdle championship at the Claremont Classic ... posted 20 top-five finishes in all events during the outdoor campaign ... ran in the 200, 400 and 4x400 during the indoor season ... recorded a top time of 25.04 in the 200, 55.21 in the 400 and 3:41.55 in the 4x400 ... her 3:41.55 performance along with Pencil, Chapu and Upuu at the MWC Championships broke the school record and earned themselves all-league indoor recognition ... meanwhile, she, Pencil, Kristin Olafsdottir and Chapu own the fifth-best 4x400 time of 3:45.20.

2006
All-Mountain West Conference outdoor performer in the 400-meter dash and the 4x100 and 4x400 relay ... all-league in the 4x400 indoor relay after finishing second with a school-record time of 3:43.63 (Mandy Upuu, Kristin Olafsdottir, Brittani Dudley) ... received an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships in the 400 and along with her 4x400 relay team (Larnie Boyd, Sherraine Pencil, Dudley) ... was ranked 19th in the 400 and her team was the No. 20 ranked team in the field ... finished 26th in the 400 (54.69) and 19th in the relay (3:42.39) ... helped the 4x400 relay team to a season-best clocking of 3:39.26 while finishing fourth at the NCAA West Regionals ... went into the regionals ranked No. 6 in the West in the 400 and finished seventh (55.20) ... established a season best in the 400 with a time of 52.94, good for third at the MWC outdoor event ... guided the 4x100 and 4x400 relay team to second-place finishes at the league meet ... their 45.85 effort in the 4x100 was a season best and their performance in the 4x400 (3:40.65) was a regional qualifying mark ... began the outdoor season by winning the 400 (58.48) and running with first-place winning 4x400 relay team (3:52.02) at the San Diego City Championships ... continued her winning ways by taking home the 400 hurdle (1:01.72) and 400-meter dash (55.72) titles at the Aztec Track Classic ... was the top performer in the 400 hurdles with an NCAA regional qualifying standard of 1:00.72 and in the 400 (55.00) at the Mt. SAC Relays ... also ran with the 4x400 relay team that posted a regional qualifying standard with a clocking of 3:41.42 ... took first in the 4x400 relay (3:51.80) during the indoor season at the Mountain T[apos]s Invitational with Nicole Carmier, Pencil and Olafsdottir.

High School
Four-year letterwinner under coach Carlton Austin ... was Baseline League champion in the 300-meter hurdles all four years ... was a member of the Cougars[apos] nationally ranked 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams ... has personal bests of 43.9 in the 300 hurdles and 54.3 in the 400 meters.