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2021 Women's Cross Country Roster

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Olivia Paxton

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Rock Hill, SC
  • Prev School William & Mary

Biography

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Career Highlights

  • 2016 Big South Conference Freshman of the Year
  • 2016 Big South All-Conference
  • 2019 CAA All-Conference
  • Member of the CAA 2019 Conference Champions

2019-20 (William & Mary)

  • Top runner with 36 points in six races
  • Won the William & Mary Invitational and led the Tribe in three races
  • Finished 8th at the CAA Championship, earning all-conference honors
  • Named to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll
2018-19 (William & Mary)
  • Finished 17th at the CAA Championships and helped the team claim the CAA Championship
  • Finished third on the team at the Southeast Regional
2017-18 (Winthrop)
  • Redshirted 
2016-17 (Winthrop)
  • Voted as the Big South Conference Freshman of the Year
  • Finished seventh at the Big South Conference Championship, earning all-conference honors
  • Ran second for the Eagles at the regional meet 
Prep Highlights
  • Earned all-state honors in South Carolina in both cross country and the 3,200m each of her last two years
  • Won the state title at 3,200m outdoors as a senior
  • Won the Upstate cross country title as a senior as well
  • Graduated with honors
  • Named the 2015-16 South Pointe Student-Athlete of the Year
Personal
  • Was born April 6, 1998
  • Is the daughter of Ben and Wendy Paxton

Historical Player Information

  • 2016Freshman

    5'7"
  • 2017Sophomore

    5'7"
  • 2020-21Graduate Student

  • 2021Graduate Student