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Amanda Beach
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Melbourne, Fla.
Bio
Honors:Â 2021 All-ACC Academic Team (Cross Country), 2018 All-ACC Second Team (10,000m, Outdoor)
2020-21 T&F: Turned in an ACC Indoor career-best 13th place finish in the 5000m at the ACC Indoor Championships, with a PR time of 16:38.88 (2/25) ... Finished 13th in the 10000m with a time of 35:01.77 at the Virginia Challenge (4/17) ... Ran a time of 16:3836 in the 5000m to finish second at Duke Twilight (5/3) ... Set personal bests in both the 5000m and 10,000m, recording times of 16:23.42 and 34:02.48 and finishing in 17th and 16th respectively at the ACC Outdoor Championships (5/13 - 5/15) ... Finished 32nd in the 10,000m with a time of 35:18.26 at the NCAA East Regional (5/27).
2020 XC:Â Competed in three meets during her senior campaign ... opened the season with an eight-place finish at the Virginia Tech Invitational (9/25) ... named the Duke Student-Athlete of the Week after taking first overall at the Panorama Farms Invitational (10/16) with a personal-best 5K time of 16:53.0 ... ran her 6K in 20:49.6 for a 26th-place result at the ACC Championships (10/30)...Finished in 26th place in the 6K at the FSU Winter XC Classic (2/5) ... Competed in her first NCAA Championships, finishing 216th with a time of 22:37.2 on the 6K course (3/15).Â
2019-20 T&F: Appeared in three meets during the indoor season ... clocked a personal record of 10:07.99 in the 3000m at the Carolina Challenge (1/11), placing third in the competition ... did not compete in any outdoor events due to the season being cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 XC: Ran in three races during the 2019 fall campaign, finishing two ... made her season debut at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational (9/20), where she placed 15th with a 6K time of 22:19.6.
2018-19 T&F: Competed in three meets and two events during the indoor season … recorded a personal best time of 10:17.65 in the 3000m at the Hokie Invitational (1/18) … finished a season-best second place at the Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational (2/8) in the 5K, running a time of 17:11.46 … participated in one meet for the outdoor season.
2018 XC: Opened the season in the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational (9/28), posting a 5K time of 17:50.93 as part of Duke’s fifth-place team finish … competed in four total meets and events … ran the 6K in the ACC Championships (10/26) and finished with a time of 21:40.5 … participated in the NCAA Division I Southeast Region Cross Country Championships (11/9), where she ran the 6K and finished with a time of 21:03.9 and placed 40th.
2017-18 T&F: Appeared in four meets during the 2018 outdoor season ... finished 21st at the Raleigh Relays (3/30) with a personal-best 10,000-meter time of 34:53.12 ... clocked a PR in the 5000m at the Penn Relays (4/26) ... earned second-team All-ACC honors at the ACC Outdoor Championships (5/10), where she finished sixth in the 10,000m with a time of 35:13.90 ... competed in the 10,000m at the NCAA East Preliminaries.
2017 XC: Competed in six races during the fall of her freshman campaign, securing a top-two finish for the Blue Devils in each of the races she ran … earned a first-place overall finish in her collegiate debut at the Bull City Classic (9/1) with a 4K time of 13:47 … eclipsed a personal-best time in the Adidas XC Invitational (9/15) with a 5K mark of 17:07.3 to earn a fourth-place overall finish … posted a second-place finish at the Paul Short Invitational (9/29) with a 6K time of 20:35 … recorded a 6K time of 20:49.8 at the Pre Nationals (10/14) as the first Blue Devil to cross the finish line … notched a personal-best time in the ACC Championships (10/27) with a 6K time of 20:35.0 to help the Blue Devils finish seventh overall … posted a 6K time of 21:10.6 in the NCAA Southeast Regional Championships (11/10).
Prior to Duke:Â Lettered all four years under Melissa Vandett at Melbourne Catholic Central High School in Melbourne, Florida ... was a 2017 New Balance Track and Field Nationals All-American in the 5,000m, placing in sixth at the meet ... also competed in the 5,000m at the 2016 edition of the New Balance Track and Field Nationals ... earned Cross Country State Medals in both 2015 and 2016 and was District Champion both years ... placed third in the 3,200m in both the 2016 and 2017 State Track and Field meet as well as medaling in the 1,600 in 2017 ... two-time District Champion in both the 1,600m and the 3,200m ... Valedictorian of her high school class ... President of the Student Council for the 2016-17 school year ... member of the National Honor Society, Rho Kappa Honor Society, and the Spanish Honor Society as well as Secretary of the Science National Honor Society.
Personal: Daughter of Jeff Beach and Melissa Vandett … born February 20, 1999 … mother, Melissa, ran cross country and track & field at the University of Connecticut while coaching Amanda in high school.
Duke Cross Country PR
4K – 13.47.0 (9/1/2017)
5K – 16:53.0 (10/16/2020)
6K – 20:35.0 (10/27/2017)
Duke Indoor PR
3,000m – 10:07.99 (1/11/2020)
5,000m – 17:08.81 (2/26/2021)
Duke Outdoor PR
5,000m – 16:23.42 (5/15/2021)
10,000m – 34:02.48 (5/15/2021)
Last updated on June 9, 2021
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