2024-25 Women's Cross Country/Track Roster
Biography
Valerie Lastra TFRRS Profile
All CUSA Honors
- 2024 Indoor All-CUSA First Team (Mile-Gold Medalist)
- 2024 Indoor All-CUSA Second Team (3k-Silver Medalist)
- 2024 Outdoor All-CUSA Second Team (1500-Silver Medalist)
- CUSA Cross Country Athlete of the Week (October 3, 2023)
- 2023 All-CUSA Third Team (Cross Country)
- 2022 All-Academic Team (Cross Country)
- 2022 All-CUSA Second Team (Cross Country)
- CUSA Cross Country Athlete of the Week (October 18, 2022)
- 2023 All-CUSA Second Team (Cross Country)Â
FIU All-Time Top 10
- No. 1: Indoor DMR (11:49.62)
- No. 1: Cross Country 6k (20:07.90)
- No. 1: Indoor Mile (4:38.46)
- No. 1: Outdoor 1500 (4:21.35)
- No. 2: Cross Country 5k (17:30.00)
- No. 2: Indoor 3k (9:33.07)
- No. 2: Outdoor 800 (2:09.01)
- No. 3: Indoor 800 (2:10.60
Junior (2023-2024) - Cross Country:  Began her FIU career in impressive fashion by posting a PR of 17:30 at the FSU Invitational, earning a fifth-place finish and Conference USA Athlete of the Week Honors for her performance...placed 16th at the Alabama Crimson Classic...Placed 15th at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships, helping guide FIU to a fourth-place team finish...set a 6K PR at the NCAA South Regional Championships, running 20:07 to place 46th. Indoor: Opened the season with a first place finish in the 3000m at the RADD Track and Field Invitational, clocking in at 9:33.07... placed first in the 800m with a time of 2:10.60 and second in the mile with a time of 4:39.52 at the Scarlet Knight Open... placed third in the mile at the Music City Challenge, finishing in 4:38.46... secured first place in the mile with a time of 4:39.98, and second in the 3000m with a time of 9:36.43, and fourth in the DMR with a time of 11:49.62 at the Conference USA Indoor Track & Field Championship. Outdoor: Placed fifth in the 1500m at the Pepsi Florida Relays with a time of 4:21.35... finished 93rd in the 1500m at the Bryan Clay Invitational with a time of 4:22.90... secured first place in the 1500m with a time of 4:23.95 and fifth in the 800m with a time of 2:09.01 at the East Coast Relays... finished fourth in the 1500m with a time of 4:44.98 in the prelims and second with a time of 4:27.81 in the finals at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships.
Sophomore (2021-2022, at UCF)Â
- Placed 5th at the UF Mountain Dew Invite and UCF Cross Country InviteÂ
- Earned an 8th place finish at the American Conference ChampionshipsÂ
- Placed 7th in the finals of the 1500 at the American Outdoor ChampionshipsÂ
Freshman (2020-21, at UCF)
- 2020-21 American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year
- In her first collegiate race, won the UCF Cross Country Invite and set the freshman 5K record with a time of 17:43.6 (1/23)
- Posted the fastest time by a freshman at the conference meet since 2017, finishing fourth overall in 21:10.55.
- Earned all-conference accolades and became the first Knight to earn Freshman of the Year in The American
- In just two meets, Lastra broke Anne-Marie Blaney's freshman 5K and 6K records
- Fourth-place finish is the best conference debut by a Knight
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High School
- Two-time cross country All-American and qualifier for the Foot Locker Cross Country Nationals
- Set the Apalachee Regional Park course record (17:17.58) in 2018
- Won back-to-back 3A cross country state titlesÂ
- As a freshman, won the AAU Nationals cross country meet
- Finished second at the cross country state championship as an eighth grader
- Graduated Cum Laude and top of her class in dual enrollment macro and micro economics
- Silver Knight nominee
- Member of the Art Honor Society and National Honor Society
Personal: Majoring in Electrical Engineering
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