Rachel Fisher
Rachel Fisher
  • Year:
    Jr.
  • Hometown:
    Metamora, Ill.
  • High School:
    Metamora

Bio

Awards/Honors

  • All-SLIAC Second Team - Cross Country (Fall 2022)
  • SLIAC Newcomer of the Year - Indoor Track (Winter 2022-23)
  • All-SLIAC First Team - 800 (Winter 2022-23)
  • All-SLIAC Second Team - 800 (Spring 2023)
  • All-SLIAC Third Team - 4x400 (Spring 2023)
  • SLIAC All-Sportsmanship Team (Spring 2023)
  • All-SLIAC Third Team - 800 (Winter 2023-24)

Career Records and Milestones 

  • Ranks 10th in program history in the 6k (27:06)
  • Holds indoor program-record in the 300 (45.55)
  • Holds indoor program-record in the 400 (1:04.42)
  • Holds indoor program-record in the 500 (1:23.62)
  • Holds indoor program-record in the 600 (1:46.21)
  • Holds indoor program-record in the 800 (2:26.10)
  • Holds indoor program-record in the 4x400 (4:56.81)
  • Holds outdoor program-record in the 800 (2:23.12)

Sophomore (2023-24): In the winter, she competed in all six indoor meets, representing the Red Devils in the 400, the 600, and the 800 … Recorded a season-best of 2:30.05 in the 800 of Feb. 3 at the Illinois Wesleyan Bob Keck Invite … Recorded a season-best of 1:06.08 in the 400 on Feb. 16 at the Illinois College Hilltop Invite.

In the spring, she competed in all five outdoor meets, representing the Red Devils in the 400 and the 800 … Recorded a season-best of 2:32.31 in the 800 on Apr. 6 at the Illinois College True Blue Invite … Recorded a season-best of 1:08.27 in the 400 on Apr. 20 at the Culver-Stockton Wildcat Open.

Freshman (2022-23): In her first cross country season as a Red Devil, she competed in all seven meets and helped the Red Devils take runner-up in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship for the first time in program history … She earned Second Team All-SLIAC honors with a 10th-place in 27:19.8 (7:28/M) at the SLIAC Championship on Oct. 29 … Recorded her a 6k personal record of 27.06.9 (7:16/M) with a 22nd-place finish at the Warrior Invitational on Oct. 1 … Recorded a 5k personal record of 21:42.88 (6:59/M) at the Greenville Classic on Oct. 15 … Received the team’s Women’s Newcomer Award.

In the winter, she competed in all five meets and helped the Red Devils place fourth overall at the SLIAC Indoor Championship for the first time in program history … After entering as the favorite to win the 800, she won the race by nearly four seconds with a PR of 2:26.10, earned All-SLIAC honors and became the first Red Devil to be voted SLIAC Women's Track Newcomer of the Year for the indoor season … Was twice selected SLIAC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week … Also competed in the 600 (setting a PR of 1:46.21), the 300 (setting a PR of 45.55), the 500 (setting a PR of 1:23.62) and the 400 (setting a PR of 1:04.42).

In the spring, she competed in all five meets and helped the Red Devils place fifth overall at the SLIAC Outdoor Championships for the first time in program history … On April 29, she took conference runner-up in the 800, clocking in with a PR of 2:23.12 and beating her previous best by three seconds … Also returned to anchor the 4x400 team, turning in a blazing 1:01.83 split to seal the third-place finish and a new PR of 4:39.6 … Received SLIAC All-Conference honors in the 800 and as part of the 4x400 team … Recorded a PR of 1:03.1 in the 400 at the Greenville Classic on April 15 … Was selected to the SLIAC All-Sportsmanship Team.

Metamora High School: Achieved a wide range of accomplishments in both cross country and track.

XC: Helped her team capture a 2020 Cross Country Mid-Illini Conference championship … Ran at the ShaZam XC Championship 2020 … Earned Second Team All-Conference honors in 2021 … Helped her team earn a 2021 regional championship … Qualified for and competed in the 2021 IHSA State Cross Country Meet.

Track: Qualified for the Indoor Top times Meet in the 4x800-meter relay in 2020 … Helped her team take home in gold in the Mid-Illini Conference Meet in the team race, in the 4x800 and the 4x400 in 2021 … Helped her team win a sectional championship in 2021 … Led her team to a 10th-place finish in the 4x800 at the 2021 IHSA Track Meet and an eighth-place finish at the Illinois Top Times Indoor Championships in 2022 … Recorded a 3-mile PR of 20.05, an 800 PR of 2:28 and a 400 PR of 1:04.

Also achieved High Honors Rolls every semester and was a National Honors Society member.

Personal: The daughter of Bart and Brenda Fisher, Rachel was born on Nov. 24, 2004 in Metamora, Illinois … Has three siblings, Jacob, Rebekah and Joshua … Majoring in Spanish and Pre-Nursing.

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