2023 Track & Field Roster
Biography
CAREER HIGHS
Hammer: 73.02m (239-6)
Shot Put (Out): 10.16m (33-4)
Weight: 18.31m (60-1)
2023 (Outdoor): First Team All-American… ended her Golden Bear career as the sixth-best women’s hammer thrower in collegiate history and fourth-best in Pac-12 history… competed in seven meets for Cal… took third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a throw of 71.47m (234-6)… threw the hammer 70.25m (230-6) at the NCAA West Preliminary… placed second at the Pac-12 Championships with a mark of 68.38m (224-4)… won the hammer competition at the 128th Big Meet with a mark of 69.69m (228-8)… at the Mt. SAC Relays, took second in the elite women’s hammer contest after throwing 69.97m (229-7)… posted a mark of 73.02m (239-7) at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational, the second-farthest throw in Division I that season and second-best in British women's history… CSC Academic All-America First Team… USTFCCCA All-Academic.
2023 (Indoor): Appeared in one meet for Cal… competed in the weight throw at the Don Kirby Invitational.
2022 (Outdoor): Competed at the European Athletics Championships… finished seventh in the hammer throw at the Commonwealth Games… won the AAI Games hammer throw competition with her mark of 67.01m (219-19)… finished fifth in the hammer throw at the UK Athletics Championships… First Team All-American… competed in eight meets for Cal… posted a hammer throw mark of 69.34m (227-6), good for seventh place, at the NCAA Outdoor Championships… finished third at the NCAA West Preliminary with her hammer throw of 68.95m (226-2)… took second at the Pac-12 Championships with a distance of 68.93m (226-1) in the hammer throw… won the collegiate division of the hammer throw at the Mt. SAC Relays, posting a mark of 69.56m (228-2)… posted a personal-best hammer throw of 70.63m (231-9) at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational, fifth in the NCAA that year, 13th-best all-time and second in program history… set a new meet record in the hammer throw at the Cardinal Classic with her winning distance of 67.25m (220-8)… USTFCCCA All-Academic… CoSIDA Academic All-District… Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2022 (Indoor): Competed in three meets for the Bears… at the WSU Invitational, threw the weight 17.20m (56-5.25)… posted a weight throw of 17.17m (56-4) at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational... named to the Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll.
2021 (Outdoor): Took fourth place in the hammer throw with a heave of 65.11m (213-6) while representing Great Britain in the European U23 Championships… competed in seven meets for the Bears... placed fourth in the hammer throw at the Pac-12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships, posting a mark of 62.89m (206-4)… at the Cal-USC Dual, threw the hammer 64.96m (213-1), good for second place… finished third in the hammer throw at the Stanford Invitational with a best throw of 63.18m (207-3)… at the Cal-Sac State Dual, won the hammer throw competition with a personal-record 66.52m (218-3), second all-time in school history, after which she was named the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division I Women’s Athlete of the Week as the first Cal track & field athlete in history to win that award… USTFCCCA All-Academic… made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.
2021 (Indoor): Appeared in two meets… took fourth place in the weight throw with a heave of 18.27m (59-11.25) at the Air Force Invitational.
NEBRASKA: Placed second in the hammer throw at the England Athletics U20 Championships... posted a personal best in the weight throw with a toss of 18.31m (60-1) at the 2020 Mark Colligan Memorial... at the 2019 NCAA Division I West Region Preliminaries, threw the hammer 61.18m (200-9).
HIGH SCHOOL: Finished second in the hammer throw at the English Schools’ Championships in 2017 and 2018… placed third in the hammer throw at the England U20 Championships in 2017 and 2018… member of Nottingham Athletics Club.
PERSONAL: Received a master's in cultural studies of sport in education after earning her bachelor's in media studies… daughter of Colin Purchase and Penelope Rose… aunt competed in track & field at Cambridge University.
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