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Megan Paule - Track & Field - Kansas Jayhawks

Megan Paule

Position Distance
Class Senior
Hometown Overland Park, Kan.
High School Blue Valley Southwest HS
Position Distance

CAREER RESULTS

Career Highlights
2018 Cross Country Academic All-Big 12 First Team

 

2019 INDOOR (Sr.)
Finished third in the 3,000-meter run at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular (1/18) with a time of 10:02.39 … Ran a personal-best time of 17:08.70 in the 5,000-meter run at the ISU Classic (2/8-2/9) to become the No. 7 performer in KU history.

2018 CROSS COUNTRY (Sr.)
Finished fifth overall at the season-opening Bob Timmons Classic (9/1) in the women’s 5K race with a time of 19:12.9 … Placed seventh overall at the Rim Rock Classic (9/29) as KU’s third finisher with a time of 22:03.2 in the women’s 6K … KU’s fifth finisher and the 120th finisher overall at the Pre-National Invitational (10/13) with a time of 22:01.41 … Placed 42nd at the Big 12 Championship (10/26), finishing with a time of 21:43.0 … Finished 60th overall in the 6K at the NCAA Midwest Regional (11/9) with a time of 21:40.5.

2018 OUTDOOR (Jr.)
Finished sixth in the 5,000-meter run at the Oral Roberts Invitational (3/31) with a time of 18:10.82 … Placed fifth in the 5,000 meters at the Kansas Relays (4/18-21) with a career-best time of 17:53.98 … Placed fifth in the 1,500 meters at the Ward Haylett Invitational (5/5) with a time of 4:50.05.

2018 INDOOR (Jr.)
Made her Kansas debut at the Jayhawk Classic (1/25-26) with a sixth-place finish in the 3,000-meter run, clocking in at 10:33.78 … Clocked a 3,000-meter time of 10:18.03 to finish seventh at the Rod McCravy Memorial (2/3).

2017 CROSS COUNTRY (At Creighton)
Finished 10th at the Augustana Twilight Meet (9/1) with a 5K time of 18:18.9 … Clocked a 6K time of 21:46.7 at the Sundodger Invitational (9/16) to finish 22nd … Finished 49th at the Notre Dame Invitational (9/29) with a 5K time of 18:16.5 … Cross the finish line in 33rd at the BIG EAST Conference Championships (10/28) with a 6K time of 21:53.5 … Finished 66th in the NCAA Division I Midwest Region Championships (11/10) with a 6K time of 21:24.5.

2017 OUTDOOR (At Creighton)
Finished 19th at the Wash U Invitational (3/31-4/1) in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:42.22 … Clocked a time of 17:48.59 in the 5,000-meter run at the Jim Duncan Invitational (4/14-15) to finish seventh … Clocked a time of 17:41.40 in the 5,000-meter run at the Kip Janvrin Open (4/27-28).

2017 INDOOR (At Creighton)
Finished 12th at the Holiday Inn Invitational (1/13-14) in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 3:12.04 … Clocked a time of 10:22.88 in the 3,000-meter run at the Jayhawk Classic (1/26-27) … Finished 18th in the 5,000-meter run at the Indoor Gorilla Classic (2/10-11) with a time of 18:18.08 … Notched a ninth-place finish at the Nebraska  Tune-Up (2/17) in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 10:26.32.

2016 CROSS COUNTRY (At Creighton)
Finished 13th at the Hawkeye Invitational (9/2) to open the season with a 3K time of 10:35.6 … Tabbed a 66th-place finish at the Commodore Classic (9/17) with a 5K time of 18:15.2 … Finished 35th at the BIG EAST Conference Championships (10/28) with a 6K time of 22:58.3 … Came in 107th place at the NCAA Division I Midwest Region Championships (11/11), completing the 6K loop in 22:02.0.

2016 OUTDOOR (At Creighton)
Finished fourth in the 5,000-meter run at the Jim Duncan Invitational (4/15-16) with a time of 17:58.94 … Clocked a time of 10:10.38 in the 3,000-meter run at the Musco Twilight (4/23).

2016 INDOOR (At Creighton)
Finished second in the mile run with a time of 5:12.35 at the Concordia Classic (1/29-30) … Tabbed a third-place finish in the 3,000-meter run at the Grinnell Indoor Invitational (2/6) with a time of 10:24.01 … Finished second in the 3,000 meters at the Nebraska Tune-Up (2/19) with a time of 10:06.81.

2015 CROSS COUNTRY (At Creighton)
Notched a 10th-place finish at the Briar Cliff Invitational (10/10) with a 5K time of 18:05.8 … Clocked a 6K time of 22:29.3 at the BIG EAST Conference Championships (10/31) to finish 43rd … Finished 125th at the NCAA Division I Midwest Region Championships (11/13) with a 6K time of 22:27.1.

HIGH SCHOOL
Competed in the cross country state championships all four years at Blue Valley Southwest High School … Earned All-State honors in 2014 and 2015 … Named First Team All-Eastern Kansas League in 2014 and 2015 … Earned all-state recognition in the 3,200 meters in 2015 … Academic All-State honoree all four years of high school … Was  also a member of the varsity soccer team.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Dan and Michelle Paule … Has two siblings, Brendan and Michael … Undecided on a major.