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Cedarville University Yellow Jackets

Events Results

2020 Women's Track & Field Roster

Christopher Kenyon
Daniele Modderman
Daniele Modderman
Scott Huck, Cedarville University

Grace Norman

  • Position Distance
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Jamestown, OH
  • High School Xenia Christian

Biography

CAREER STATS

2019-20
  • Competed in five of the eight varsity cross country meets
  • Finished 19th with a 6K PR of 22:00.0 at the G-MAC Championships in Pepper Pike, Ohio
  • Earned NCCAA All-America honors with a sixth-place spot (19:21.2) as CU captured their 12th national title at the 5K layout in Point Lookout, Missouri
  • Posted a season-best 5K outing of 18:54.4 at the Queens Challenge in Charlotte, North Carolina

2018-19
  • Tallied 32 individual indoor points
  • Runner-up in the 800 meters (2:27.71) at the Capital Open in Columbus, Ohio
  • Placed sixth in the 3,000 meters at the G-MAC Indoor Championships with a time of 10:15.78
  • Runner-up in the mile (5:22.37) at the Cedarville Collegiate Indoor Invitational
  • Competed in four outdoor track & field meets
  • Produced a 4:57.34 outing to place third in the 1,500 meters at the Denison Invitational
  • Top 5,000 meter effort was 18:44.37 for a seventh-place finish at the Redhawk Invitational
  • G-MAC Academic Team for track & field
  • Did not participate in any cross country events

2017-18
  • NCCAA Indoor Track & Field Champion as part of the Distance Medley Relay (DMR)
  • NCCAA Indoor All-American in the 3,000 meters and DMR
  • G-MAC Indoor Third Team
  • G-MAC Academic Team
  • Ran in five of the seven cross country meets in her first season with the CU women’s program
  • Registered a season-best 5K time of 18:52 to finish as CU’s #5 runner as the Lady Jackets took home their 11th NCCAA National Championship banner in Jackson, Mississippi
  • Produced a season-best 23:33 at the NCAA II Midwest Regional on the 6K layout of CU’s Elvin R. King Cross Country Course
  • USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic
  • G-MAC Academic Team

2016-17
  • Competed in the distance events during the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons
  • G-MAC Indoor Third Team after placing third in the 3,000 meters in 10:26.93
  • G-MAC Indoor Freshmen Team
  • Sat out the cross country season to compete in Paralympics in Rio
  • Successfully defended her title at the 2017 ITU Paratriathlon World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Paralympics (2016)
  • Gold medalist in the triathlon and a took the bronze medal in the 400 meters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Holds world records in the Paralympic T44 category in both the 800 meters and the 1,500 meters
  • American record-holder in the Paralympic T44 category in the 400, 800, and 1,500 meters

High School
  • Produced a three-sport career at Xenia Christian High School
  • Four-year letter winner in track & field
  • Two-time all-conference performer
  • Four-year letter winner in cross country
  • Three-time all-conference honoree
  • Four-year letter winner in swimming
  • Earned two all-conference recognitions
  • National Honor Society student

Personal
  • Dean’s List student as a nursing major at Cedarville University
  • Born March 9, 1998 in Morgantown, West Virginia
  • Daughter of Dr. Timothy and Robin Norman
  • Father is a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University
  • Mother was a distance runner at Purdue
  • Older sister, Bethany, was a four-year distance runner at CU from 2013-17
  • Also has a younger sister

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Freshman

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2018Sophomore

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2019Junior

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2020Senior

    Distance
    5'7"