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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

2024 Women's Track and Field

Laura Zimmer

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Billings, MT
  • High School Billings
  • Events Distance
  • College Claremont McKenna

Biography



TFRRS Results

At CMS

Graduated as the CMS outdoor track and field record holder in the 1500 meters (4:25.36), as well as placing No. 6 in the 800 meters (2:12.81).

2023-24 Track and Field (Senior)
Second-Team Outdoor All-American (1500 meters) ... First-Team Indoor All-American (DMR) ... USTFCCCA All-West Region (1500 meters) ... All-SCIAC (800 meters, 1500 meters) ... CSC Academic All-District ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Claremont McKenna Dickinson Award Winner ...
Earned second-team All-America honors with a 16th-place finish at nationals in the 1500 meters ... Part of a distance medley relay team that came in third at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships to earn first-team All-America honors ... Set the CMS record in the 1500 at the Occidental Invitational with a 4:25.36 ... Earned All-SCIAC honors in both the 800 and the 1500 with third-place finishes ... Part of the winning relays in both the DMR and the 4x800 at the Rossi Relays ... Broke five minutes in the indoor mile at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational (4:57.38) ... Ran a 2:12.81 in the 800 at the Pomona-Pitzer All-Comers meet to move into sixth in CMS history ... Won the 1000 meters in 2:57.15 at the OIDFE Challenge Meet hosted by CMS ... Part of the CMS women's cross country team that finished fourth at nationals in the fall, earning first-team All-SCIAC and USTFCCCA All-West Region honors. 

2023 Cross Country (Senior)
USTFCCCA All-West Region ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... SCIAC's Celia Peterson Leadership Award Winner ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ...
Earned a sixth-place finish at the SCIAC Championships, earning first-team all-league honors with a 22:48.9 ... Added all-region distinction by coming in 19th place at the NCAA West Regionals ... Part of a seven-runner contingent that earned fourth place at the NCAA Division III Championships ... Ran a 22:52.4 at nationals ... Earned 18th place at the Division III Pre-Nationals with a 22:30.1 ... Had a PR for a 6K race with a 21:26.1 at the UC Riverside Invitational ... Had an 18:41.7 in a 5K race at the Mark Covert Classic. 

2022-23 Track and Field (Junior)
All-SCIAC (1500 meters) ...
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Came in second place in the 1500 meters at the SCIAC Championships to earn all-league honors for the second straight season ... Ran a 4:43.97 in the finals to take second, after a limited spring schedule which saw her compete in only three outdoor meets ... Took first in the 1000 at the CMS Outdoor Indoor Distances Meet ... Had a PR in the mile indoors at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invite (5:00.82)

2022 Cross Country (Junior)
Second-Team All-SCIAC ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Part of the seven-runner contingent for CMS that competed at NCAA Regionals and Nationals ... Finished 17th at the SCIAC Championships to earn second-team all-league honors for the second year in a row ... Began the year with a third-place finish at the Redlands Invitational with a 17:01.0 (over a 4.5K race) ... Came in 28th at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational. 

2021-22 Track and Field (Sophomore)
NCAA Qualifier (1500 meters) ... USTFCCCA All-West Region (800, 1500, 4x400 Relay) ... All-SCIAC (1500) ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... USTFCCCA All-Academic Team ... 
Earned an NCAA qualification in the 1500 with a 4:34.53 at the Redlands Final Qualifier ... Finished 20th at the NCAA Championships ... Earned All-SCIAC honors with a third-place finish in the 1500 (4:40.32), while also finishing fourth in the 800 (2:17.76) to help CMS to the team title ... Had a PR of 2:13.00 in the 800 at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational to move into fifth all-time at CMS ... Won the 1500 at the second SCIAC Multi-Dual and the 800 at the third ... Also took first in the 800 at the CMS Outdoor Indoor Distance Challenge meet in the first outdoor meet of the year.  

2021 Cross Country (Sophomore)
USTFCCCA All-West Region ... Second-Team All-SCIAC ... Part of the seven-runner contingent that represented CMS at regionals and nationals, earning the highest-ever team finish in program history as the national runner-up ... Earned 12th place at the SCIAC Championships in 22:35.0 to earn second-team all-league honors ... Followed up with a 17th-place finish at the NCAA West Regionals in 22:50.6, earning all-region distinction ... Ran a 22:40.3 at nationals to earn a 137th place finish ... Captured 12th place at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational in 22:40.7 ... Had a PR for a 6K at the UC Riverside Invitational, finishing in 21:30.7 ... Ran a 19:18.0 in a 5K to come in 33rd place at the Mark Covert Classic.  

2020-21 (First-Year)
SCIAC All-Academic Team ...
Athenas did not compete due to COVID-19. 

Prior to CMS
Attended Billings High School in Montana, where she was a member of the track and field team ... Finished sixth in the 2019 State Championships in the 800 meters as a junior, as well as ninth in the 400 meters and 14th in the 1600  meters ... Finished third in the Eastern AA Divisional Championships in the 800. 

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna, where she has a dual major in economics and psychology.  


Laura Zimmer posed shot
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Sophomore

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  • 2023Junior

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  • 2024Senior

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