Leah Schubel at DirectAthletics
Getting to Know Leah Schubel
2012-13: Was VMI's #2-#3 runner throughout her senior cross country season...closed out her XC career with a bang, PRing in each of her final two events...posted an 18:33 clocking to finish 14th at the Big South Championships, a 5K PR and her best XC conference finish...went on to cross the stripe in 22:54 at the 6K NCAA Regionals the next week for another PR...was third at the VMI Invite and 11th at the JMU Open...missed a portion of the indoor season due to injury, but returned at Liberty Quad in February...went on to finish 13th in the 3K and 15th in the 5K at the conference indoor meet...was 19th in the 5K at the conference's outdoor meet...Academic Stars.
2011-12: Posted personal bests in three of her most common events, the 800, 1,500 and 5K...two of those came in her final meet of the season, the Big South Outdoor Championships...finished eighth in the 1,500 with a personal best of 4:43.98 in that race...was the second straight year she had finished eighth in that race...also finished 16th in the 5K at that meet, with a 25-second PR of 18:19...just days before the conference's outdoor meet, Schubel posted an 800-meter PR of 2:22.65 at the Patriot Open...21st in the mile at the conference indoor meet...competed in every cross country event...was 22nd at the Big South Championships with a 5K PR of 18:49...earned top-10 finishes at W&L and Furman...was VMI's #2 runner at the Southeast Regional meet...academically, inducted into the Sigma Beta Delta honor society (business) and the Omnicron Delta Epsilon (economics) honor society as well.
2010-11: Had a breakout track season, posting PR's in five different events (800, 1,500, mile, 3K, 5K)...notched her first career conference points at the BSC outdoor meet, finishing eighth in the 1,500 with a personal best 4:47.09 clocking...also finished 15th in the 5K at that event, with an outdoor PR of 19:01.40...ran a 2:24.34 800 at the VMI/W&L Carnival to place seventh and record another PR...indoors, was 13th in the 5K at the conference meet, timing in at an 18:44.63 PR...mile PR came at the Virginia Tech Challenge, a 5:18.37...placed seventh in the 3K at the Northeastern Invitational, thanks to a personal best 10:32.94...during cross country, was one of eight Keydets to post a personal best at Oct. 1's Charlotte Invitational, as she broke 19 minutes for the first time in her career...was VMI's #4 runner at both the Blue Ridge Open and Charlotte Invitational...was 30th at the Big South Championships.
2009-10: Alternated between the distance events and the middle-distance in her first collegiate track season...finished fifth in the 1,500-meters at the Liberty Twilight meet, where she set a new personal best and was on school record pace until late in the race...was 13th in the 5K at the Big South Indoor Championships...had a collegiate best performance in the mile at January's Great Dane Classic...set new personal bests in four-consecutive events during the middle of the cross country season...finished 16th at the Big South Championships, where she was VMI's #3 finisher with her final PR of 2009, a 19:34.
High School/Personal: Four-year letterwinner at Chancellor HS...also a four-year letterwinner in winter track, as well as swimming...three-year team MVP in both cross country and winter track...holds school records in the indoor 1,000-meter run, the 1,600-meter run and the 3,200-meter run...AAU Cross Country All-State/All-American in 2007...Wendy's High School Heisman State Finalist...former All-Metro honorable mention in Cross Country.
Personal Bests:
800: 2:24.34 (Outdoor, 2011 VMI/W&L Carnival)
1,500: 4:47.09 (2011 Big South Championships)
Mile: 5:18.37 (Indoor, 2011 Virginia Tech Challenge)
3K: 10:32.94 (Indoor, 2011 NE Invite)
5K: 18:42.27 (Outdoor, 2012 VMI/W&L Carnival)
5K XC: 18:33 (2012 Big South Championships)
6K XC: 22:54 (2012 NCAA SE Regional)
10K: 41:05.41 (2010 BSC Championship)
