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RUNNERS – WOMEN <strong>PROFESSIONAL</strong> ATHLETE FIELDS Neely Gracey Country: United States Age: 26 Date of Birth: April 16, 1990 Residence: Boulder, CO Personal Best: 2:35:00, Boston, MA, 2016 New York City Marathon: Debut Career Highlights C 2016 Boston Marathon 9th 2:35:00 2015 Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon 2nd 1:09:59 2015 USATF 10 Mile Championships 2nd 53:03 2015 USATF 15K Championships 3rd 50:50 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships (8K) 13th 25:08 On November 5 of last year, Gracey recorded her first sub-1:10 performance in the half-marathon, taking second place at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Philadelphia Half-Marathon. While her time of 1:09:59 qualified her for the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon, she opted to make her 26.2- mile debut at the Boston Marathon in April. In Boston, she placed ninth in 2:35:00 and was the top American finisher. She returned to Massachusetts in August for the Falmouth Road Race, placing sixth and finishing the seven-miler in 37:50. While training for the TCS New York City Marathon, she won the NYRR Staten Island Half on October 9 in 1:13:03. Originally from Shippensburg, PA, Gracey was an eight-time NCAA Division II champion at Shippensburg University. While competing for the Raiders, she was coached by her father, Steve Spence, the 1991 IAAF World Championships Marathon bronze medalist and a 1992 U.S. Olympian in the marathon. When she made her own marathon debut in Boston, she built upon her lifelong connection to the race: On the day she was born, her father ran 2:16:40 for 19th place in the race, in what was a personal best at the time. MEDIA GUIDE 85
<strong>PROFESSIONAL</strong> ATHLETE FIELDS RUNNERS – WOMEN Sara Hall Country: United States Age: 33 Date of Birth: April 15, 1983 Residence: Redding, CA Personal Best: 2:30:06, London, GBR, 2016 New York City Marathon History: Debut Career Highlights 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon 12th 2:30:06 2016 Houston Half-Marathon 5th 1:10:07 2015 Bank of America Chicago Marathon 10th 2:31:14 2012 USA Cross Country Championships (8K) 1st 26:50.1 2011 Pan American Games 3000m Steeplechase 1st 10:03.16 Hall enters her first TCS New York City Marathon after setting a personal best by one minute and eight seconds at the Virgin Money London Marathon this spring. In her build-up for London, she ran a 42-second half-marathon PR in Houston in January, and was the second American—15th overall—at the IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships in March. The new marathon personal best also came only two months after having to drop out of the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon near the 18-mile mark. Hall’s proven her versatility over a range of distances, as she’s won national titles for one mile (2011) and 5K (2006) on the road and 8K in cross country (2012), in addition to a gold medal in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the 2011 Pan American Games and a top-10 finish at last year’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Hall attended Stanford University, where she was a seven-time NCAA All-American. She married her Stanford teammate, two-time U.S. Olympian Ryan Hall, in 2005. In 2009, the couple founded the Hall Steps Foundation, with a mission to fight global poverty through better health. Last year, the couple adopted four sisters from Ethiopia: Hana (now age 16), Mia (14), Jasmine (9), and Lily (6). 86 #TCSNYCMARATHON
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