Track and Field

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Rachel Battershell

Sprints Hurdles
Class
Senior
Height
5-4
Major
Exercise Science
Chemistry
Biology
Hometown
Wheatland, Wyo.
Previous School
Wheatland HS
Career Stats
Honors and Awards

-2023 NAIA Outdoor All-American (400m; 4x400m); national qualifier in 4x1
-2023 GPAC Outdoor Champion: 400m, 4x1, 4x4
-2023 NAIA Indoor All-American (4x400m relay)
-2023 GPAC Indoor 400m Champion, 4x400 relay Champion, All-Conference (60 hurdles)
-2023 CSC Academic All-District
-2023 NAIA Scholar-Athlete
-2022 NAIA Outdoor All-American (*4x400m relay); National Qualifier in 4x100m relay
-2022 GPAC Outdoor All-Conference (400m)
-2022 NAIA Indoor All-American (4x400m relay); National Qualifier in 400m
-2022 GPAC Indoor All-Conference (400m, 4x400m relay, 200m)
-2022 CoSIDA Academic All-American
-2022 CoSIDA Academic All-District
-2022 NAIA Scholar-Athlete
-2021 NAIA Outdoor All-American (400m, 4x400m relay)
-2021 USTFCCCA NAIA Midwest Region Women’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year
-2021 GPAC Outdoor All-Conference (400m H;4x400m realy;100m H)
-2021 GPAC Outdoor Conference Champion (400m H; 4x400m relay)
- 2021 GPAC Outdoor Athlete of the week (April 14,21,28)
-2021 NAIA Indoor National Champion (400m)
-2021 NAIA Indoor All-American (4x400m relay) 
-2021 GPAC Indoor All-Conference (400m;55 hurdles; 4x400m)
-2021 GPAC Indoor Conference Champion (400m)
-2021 GPAC Indoor Runner-up (55m hurdles;4x400m)
-2021 CoSIDA Academic All-American
-2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District
-2021 NAIA Scholar-Athlete
-2020 NAIA National Champion (400m)
-2020 NAIA All-American (4x400 relay); National Qualifier in 60 H
-2020 GPAC Indoor Athlete of the Year / 2020 GPAC Indoor Athlete of the Meet
-2020 GPAC Indoor Champion (400m, 60m H and 4x400 relay)
-2020 Indoor School Records: 60m H, 400m, 4x400m relay
-2019 NAIA Outdoor All-American (4x400m relay)
-2019 GPAC Outdoor Champion (400m; All-GPAC in 4x400m relay, 200m)
-2019 NAIA Indoor All-American (*4x400m relay; qualifier in 400m)
-2019 GPAC Indoor Champion (4x400m relay; All-GPAC in 400m-2nd, 200m)
*School Record

Rachel Battershell

Sprints Hurdles
Senior, 5-4

Eligibility: Junior Indoor / Junior Outdoor

High School
Prepped at Wheatland High School (Wyo.) for coaches Matt Hazen, Tera Kostelecky and Cody Johnson … lettered all four years … recorded nine individual state championships and five state runner-up claims … departed with school records in the 100 meter hurdles (15.0), 200 meter dash (25.7) and as part of the 4x400 meter relay (4:03) … helped the Bulldogs to a 2018 indoor state runner-up finish … played volleyball for four years and basketball for two … member of National Honor Society … earned spot on honor roll all four years.

Personal
Born in Laramie, Wyo., on July 3, 2000 … daughter of Ty Battershell and Lauri Palmer … has an older sister Hannah and younger sister Grace … enjoys hanging out with friends, reading and being outside.

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