2018-19 Women's Track and Field Roster

Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics

Brianna Pace

  • Position Middle Distance, Distance
  • Height 5-1
  • Class Senior
  • High School Junction City
  • Hometown Junction City, Kan.
  • Major Computer Science

Biography

Honors
•  Dean's List four times
•  XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll three times (2015, 2016, 2017)
•  Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete in cross country (2017)
•  U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NAIA All-Academic in cross country (2017)
•  CoSIDA Academic All-District 2 first team (2016-17)
•  Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar second team (2016-17, 2017-18)
•  NAIA Champions of Character individual award in cross country (2017)
•  Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Honor Roll twice (2015-16, 2016-17)
•  National Society of Leadership and Success honor group
•  All-GCAC twice in cross country (2016, 2017)
•  All-GCAC in track and field (2016, 2017)
•  GCAC Track Athlete of the Week (2017)
•  GCAC Runner of the Week three times in cross country (2015)

Briefly
•  Third year at XULA
•  3-year letterwinner in cross country
•  2-year letterwinner in track and field
•  Member of three GCAC championship teams: cross country in 2016 and 2017, track and field in 2017

2018 Track and Field (Junior)
•  Ran 800 meters in 2 minutes, 25.18 seconds at Rice Victor Lopez Classic — Gold Nuggets' best time of the season
•  Part of 3,200 relay that finished in 10:05.15 at McNeese Cowboy Relays — NAIA's sixth-fastest time of the season through April 4

2017 Cross Country (Junior)
•  Third place at GCAC Championships for the second straight year (21:47.82 5K) and helped Gold Nuggets repeat as team champion
•  324th at NAIA National Championships . . . Ran 5K in 21:53

2017 Track and Field (Sophomore)
•  Gold Nuggets' leading scorer — 26 points — at the GCAC Championships, where XULA won the team title
•  Second place at GCAC meet in the 800 and 3,200 relay, third in the 1,500 and 5,000, fourth in the 3,000 steeplechase
•  XULA PR of 2:22.51 in the 800 at the Emory Invitational

2016 Cross Country (Sophomore)
•  Third place at GCAC Championships (20:43.63 5K) and helped Gold Nuggets win team title
•  Gold Nuggets' ninth-fastest 5K time ever, 19:08.7 at Allstate Sugar Bowl Festival . . . It's the only race she has run a collegiate 5K is less than 20 minutes
•  318th at NAIA National Championships . . . Ran 5K in 21:53.18

2016 Track and Field (Freshman)
•  Workhorse at GCAC Championships with second-place finishes in the 5,000 and 3,200 relay, fifth in the 3,000 steeplechase (XULA PR 13:33.91), seventh in the 800 and eighth in the 1,500
•  Ran 1,500 in 5:10.71 and the 5,000 in 20:50.53 — still her XULA PRs — at Mississippi College Twilight Invitational

2015 Cross Country (Freshman)
•  Second freshman in program history to earn multiple conference runner-of-the-week awards . . . She won three times in the GCAC
•  Team's fastest finisher in 3-of-5 meets
•  5K best time of 21:02.50 at LSU Invitational
•  Finished second in collegiate debut at Xavier Big Easy Opener and placed 11th twice
•  17th at Red River Athletic Conference Championships — Gold Nuggets' No. 3 finisher — with 5K time of 21:19

High School
•  Anchor of Junction City's 3,200 relay team which placed fourth at 2015 Class 6A state meet
•  Ran third segment of 3,200 relay in a third-place finish at state in 2014
•  Best times included 2:24.08 in the 800 and 15:41.49 for 4,000 meters in cross country
•  40 community service hours

Personal
•  First name pronounced bree-ann-uh
•  Born in Eschenbach, Germany, and lived their eight years . . . Also lived three years in South Korea and one year in El Paso, Texas, before moving to Junction City
•  Her father competed in track and cross country for Mississippi Valley State

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

    5'1"
  • 2016-17Sophomore

    Middle Distance, Distance
    5'1"
  • 2017-18Junior

    Middle Distance, Distance
    5'1"
  • 2018-19Senior

    Middle Distance, Distance
    5'1"