2015-16 W Track&Field Outdoor Roster

Lydia Lutz

Lydia Lutz

  • Position:
    Distance
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Park Rapids, Minn.
  • Major:
    Community Nutrition
  • Highschool:
    Park Rapids High School

Summary

Biography

2016-17
Cross Country (Senior): Team captain … Returned from injury to run in the final four meets of the season … UND’s No. 2 runner at the Big Sky Conference Championship with a season-best time of 19 minutes, 26 seconds … Earned fourth cross country letter.

2015-16
Cross Country (Redshirt): Selected co-captain of cross country team … Redshirted. 

Indoor (Redshirt): Redshirted the indoor season. 

Outdoor (Senior): Competed in six outdoor meets, running the 800, 1,500, 3K and 5K … Earned fourth track letter. 

2014-15
Cross Country (Junior):  Named to both UND’s Dean’s List and President’s Roll of Honor during the fall semester … Ran a time of 21:55.0 at the NCAA Cross Country Midwest Regional … Clocked a time of 18:30.0 at the Big Sky Cross Country Championship … Earned third letter in cross country. 

Indoor (Junior): Named to the Big Sky Conference Winter All-Academic Team … Member of UND’s distance medley relay that placed fourth at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship … Won her section in the 3K at the South Dakota State Jim Emmerich/Alumni Invitational with a time of 10 minutes, 36.59 seconds. 

Outdoor (Junior): Named to the Big Sky Conference Spring All-Academic Team … Also named to both UND’s Dean’s List and President’s Roll of Honor during the spring semester … Opened the outdoor season by winning the 1,500-meters at the Coastal Carolina Invitational with a time of 4:48.94 … Also won the 1,500-meters at NDSU’s Lyle Hokanson Classic with a time of 4:41.81 seconds … Placed second in her flight (16th overall) in the 5K at the Bryan Clay Invitational … Clocked a time of 17:08.76 … Earned third track letter. 

2013-14
Cross Country (Sophomore): Earned Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team honors … Co-recipient of cross country team’s Most Improved Award with Jami Johnson … Ran a 6K PR time of 22 minutes, 22 seconds at the 2013 NCAA Division I Midwest Regional, where she finished second among UND runners … Finished 43rd at the Big Sky Conference Championship with a 5K time of 18:11.1 … Placed 20th out of 81 runners at Minnesota’s Oz Memorial with a time of 24:46.8 … Earned second letter. 

Indoor (Sophomore): Named to Big Sky Conference All-Academic Winter Team. 

Outdoor (Sophomore): Named to Big Sky Conference All-Academic Spring Team … Also named to both UND’s Spring 2014 Dean’s List and Spring 2014 President’s Honor Roll … Ran a 10K PR of 38:18.02 at the Coastal Carolina Shamrock Invitational … Ran her 3K PR at Iowa State’s Bill Bergan Invitational, clocking a time of 10:22.21 … Earned second letter. 

2012-13
Cross Country (Freshman): Earned first letter in cross country. 

Indoor (Freshman): Named to the 2013 Big Sky Conference Winter All-Academic Team … Helped UND place ninth in the distance relay at the Big Sky Conference Indoor Championship (Feb. 23) … Teamed with Erin Wysocki, Brittany Ungs and Anne Van Heel for the fifth-fastest DMR time (12:49.83) in school history. 

Outdoor (Freshman): Named to the 2013 Big Sky Conference Spring All-Academic Team … Also named to the 2013 Spring Semester President’s Roll of Honor … Ran a Big Sky-qualifying time of 18:10.14 in the 5K at Drake’s Jim Duncan Invitational (April 12) … Earned first letter in track. 

Before UND
A 2012 graduate of Park Rapids High School ... Lettered six times in both cross country and track and field as a prep ... Five-time all-state performer in track ... Placed third in the 4x800 relay and fourth in the 2-mile run at state meet as a senior ... Placed sixth in the 4x800 in 2011 .... State runner-up in the 4x800 and finished seventh in the mile in 2010 ... Placed fifth in the 4x800 in 2009 ... Finished ninth in the 2-mile in 2008 ... Set school records in the 2-mile and 4x800 ... Placed sixth at state cross country meet as a senior and was a three-time all-conference performer ... Member of the National Honor Society. 

Personal
Majoring in community nutrition ... Daughter of John and Roberta Lutz.

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  • 2012-13Freshman

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  • 2013-14Sophomore

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  • 2014-15Junior

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  • 2015-16Senior

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