Courteney Zboyan '15 Recruiting Profile
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2012 Track MeetPersonal Statement
Advice to other athletes wanting to play in college: This site is very helpful in helping you get noticed, but you never will truly know what the experience of being a college will be until you are on the team and regularly attending practices. The coaches will do or say anything in emails or on your visits to try to get you to pick them over other schools. The experience may or may not actually be like you thought it would. It may not pan for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, injuries, a program's loss of funding, or a coach with issues. I have no regrets with my 1-year experience of college even though it did not go the way I had hoped. I am still an avid runner on my own and enjoy it even more now that I am doing it for fun. I am able to train the way that works best for me, take days off when I am tired, run races when I want to, and be a lot less stressed. Thankfully, I did not just choose the University of North Florida only for running. I looked at many other factors location, beauty, size, and most importantly academics (side note: I wanted to stay in a warm climate since I am a native Floridian). Mainly my advice to all of you out there hoping to play a college sport is pick your school based on factors other than athletics. Not all of us will have things work out athletically, remember the real reason you attend college is to get a degree. But no matter what happens, don't ever lose the love for your sport!
***UPDATE 2/9/15*** I have finalized my decision!
I am an only child. I would like to run in college while continuing to maintain top grades. Both success in academics and athletics are extremely important to me. I really enjoy the subjects of math, science, and history. I am a very hard worker and always give 110%. I try to always run or race to the best of my ability each day. I am a pacer. I also believe in "Never Giving Up" no matter how tired I start to feel. I feel with the right college, right coaches, and right program I could unlock lots of potential and help a team succeed.
Link for my milesplit/flrunners profile page: http://fl.milesplit.com/athletes/2172385-courteney-zboyan#.U7QZcRboaX0
Link for more articles about and more pictures of me: http://www.pbgametime.com/search/?q=Courteney+Zboyan
Athletics
High School Information
- Years w/ Varsity
- 7 years
- 2014 Varsity Team
Individual Awards
- 2nd Team All-Conference, 1st Team All-Region, Honorary Senior Captain; Inaugural Cobra Country Invite Champion; Bad Day at Conference; 2014 District 4A-10 Champion; 2014 Region 4A-3 Champion; 26th at states
Team Awards
- Conference 3rd Place, Inaugural Cobra County Invite Team Champion; District Runner-up; 6th at Regionals; 18th at state
- 2014 Varsity Team
Individual Awards
- 1st Team All-Conference, Strained Hamstring midway through season; 1st 3200 Conference.
- 2013 Varsity Team
Individual Awards
- 1st Team All-Conference, 1st Team All-County, 1st Team All-Region, 1st Team All-Area, 1st Team All-State, Won 1600 Conference, County, and District; Won 3200 Conference, County, and Districts; Undefeated locally in 1600/3200 up until regions; 4th 3200 Regions (in a gusty race); 9th at state 3200
- 2013 Varsity Team
Individual Awards
- Injury in mid-season; Awarded three "Tough as Nails" Awards; 3rd at district in comeback race.
Team Awards
- Conference 3rd Place
- 2012 Varsity Team
Individual Awards
- 1st Team All-Conference, 1st Team All-County, 1st Team All-Region, 1st Team All-State, 1st Team All-Area, Won Conference 1600/3200/4X8; won county3200/4X8; won district 3200/4X8; 2nd in region 3200, 4th in region 4x8; 7th at state 3200
- 2012 Varsity Team
Individual Awards
- Fractured pelvic growth plate mid-season (10-3-12) in a race and proceeded to finish it.
Team Awards
- Conference 2nd Place
- 2011 Varsity Team
Individual Awards
- 1st Team All-Conference, 1st Team All-County, 1st Team All-Region, Won Conference, County, and District, 4th at regions, 26th at state, Girls XC Athlete of the Year Palm Beach County
Team Awards
- Conference Champs, Regional 2nd Place, County and district champs, 12th at state
Coach References
- High School Head Coach
- Robyn Mooney XC
Events
- Camp/Event
- Brevard Distance Runners Camp
- 7/20/14 to 7/26/14
- I've been wanting to attend this running camp for the past 3 years. I finally had the opportunity to do so when my team garnered interest in 20 athletes on my XC team; we had 11 girls and 9 guys. This was the 5th running camp I had been to, but for many of my teammates it was their 1st; it was also my coach's 1st time too. No one on my team, except for one guy, had been to this camp before. Besides my team, I knew the STA girls and my mom's teammates from college and their team. -/-/- We had to do lots of team bonding challenges. Some of the challenges were: using a rope system to pick up things, getting though a spider web obstacle, crawling over logs held up by other teammates, and playing blind dodgeball. It may sound like it was fun, but each activity resonated with an important team skill like communication, teamwork, or trust. We also had speaker sessions on Form, Efficiency, Proper Fueling, and College Decisions. -/-/- The dorms were decent, my team got lucky and scored the A/C dorms. The food was ok, the best thing was the pizza as most everything else got cold too fast or didn't taste right. It wasn't easy to find time to stretch as I was always rushed due to mandatory counts after runs (there's only so much you can do standing in a line) or my coaches telling everyone to load up. For my recovery, I used my rollie stick, the creek at the college (ice bath), recovery shakes, vitamins, the stretching time I could get, and good nights of sleep. It was definitely an experience running up there; I was told that on the trails we run on, which were very hilly and rocky, a person runs a 5K about +/- 15 minutes slower than they would on flat land. I was also told that some parts I would have to walk, because some of the parts on the runs were so steep (as in like tall stair steps). However, I came in with a decent mileage base, so it wasn't hard to run there. I ran very smartly and paced myself, and thus I was very strong in the latter parts of the runs. We ran at places like Turkey Knob, Art Loeb, Pink Beds, Lake Imaging, and John Rock; all of these places were either located in DuPont or Pisgah Nat'l Forest. The hardest run was definitely Art Loeb; it consists of 1 mile of flat land, then a 1200m climb, then ~100m of flat/downhill recovery, then another 1200m climb in just the first 2.5 miles. There is a cutoff point at this 2.5 miles that you have to make in 32 minutes, I made it in 28. But that's not all, if you make the cutoff, then you have another 1.5 miles of mostly climbing, followed by 3 miles of mostly downhill and flat land for a grand total of 7 miles. The final day-graduation run was up to John Rock, it was not as hard as Art Loeb but still steep in parts, to the point where you had to use trees to pull yourself up and lower yourself down. But after climbing 3 miles to the top was a spectacular view, where each team stopped for pictures before continuing down for 2 miles. Depending on if you did your main run in the morning or the afternoon, you had the option to do a second run at the other time of day, I did this 3 out the 5 full days that I was there. I ran more in a week than I ever had before: 43.5 miles!
- Camp/Event
- Team Prep USA
- 7/10/13 to 7/20/13
- Just an amazing experince running in the altitude and mountains being from Florida. I actually adapted to the altitude very well as my family stayed a night in Colorado before the start of camp and I made sure to drink lots of water and electrolytes. I had some of my best (non-race) runs up there such as a 19:34 three mile tempo at over 9,000 feet and a five mile run at 6:55 pace (34:35) at that same atitude. The camp put on by Trent Sanderson, Loren Donohue and others is great, fun, inspiring, and structured with lots of time devoted to recovery and strecthing. I learned many recovery routines that I like to perform before and after my runs. About two weeks after this camp, I ran a best time of 19:17 in the 5K (as of 8-3-13).
Statistics
| Event | 2014 Varsity Team | 2014 Varsity Team | 2013 Varsity Team | 2013 Varsity Team | 2012 Varsity Team | 2012 Varsity Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4x800M (Split) | 2:30 | 2:22 | 2:23 | |||
| 1600M | 5:27 | 5:17 | 5:21 | |||
| 3200M | 11:55 | 11:32 | 11:35 | |||
| Distance & PR | 19:07/5K | 19:17/5K (pre season) 19:54/5K (season) | 19:18/5K | |||
| 800M | 2:26 |
| Event | 2011 Varsity Team |
|---|---|
| Distance & PR | 19:24/5K |
Academics
Grades
Test Scores
Academic Accomplishments
Are you in honor classes?
Yes. Senior year (Anatomy, Gov/Econ, English 4); Junior Year (English 3, Astronomy, Physics); Sophomore Year (Pre-Calculus, Chemistry, English 2, Spanish 3); Freshman Year (Algebra 2, English 1, Biology)Are you in AP/IB classes?
Yes. AP Calculus B/C (received a 5 on final) 2014-2015; AP Psychology (received a 5 on final) 2014-2015; AP Pottery (HPA booster) 2014-2015; AP Calculus A/B (received a 5 on final) 2013-2014; AP U.S. History (received a 5 on final) 2013-2014; AP Environmental Science (received a 4 on final) 2012-2013; AP Human Geography (received 5 on final) 2011-2012Registered with the NCAA Eligibility Center?
YesAwards and Activities
- AwardsLamp of Knowledge (Freshman/Sophomore/Junior), Order of the Arrow (Freshman/Sophomore/Junior), Best Overall Algebra 2 Honors (Freshman), Top 10 Freshman class, Spanish National Honor Society (recommended Sophomore year), Most Outstanding AP Environmental Science student (Sophomore), Best Overall Spanish III Honors (Sophomore), Top Performer World History Honors (Sophomore), Top Performer Pre-Calculus Honors (Sophomore), Top Performer Chemistry Honors (Sophomore), MuAlphaTHeta Math National Honor Society (Junior), Science National Honor Society (Junior), English National Honor Society (Junior), History National Honor Society (Junior), Selected to be XC Captain, Top Performer AP U.S. History (Junior), Best Overall Physics Honors (Junior), Best Overall English III Honors (Junior), Best Overall AP Calculus A/B (Junior), AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Honor
- ActivitiesGeocaching, Mountain Biking, Skateboarding
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