Annika Vermeulen
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- Hometown:
- Mitchell, S.D.
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- Year:
- Jr.
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- High School:
- Mitchell High School
Bio
General: The Mitchell High talent readies for the 2022 cross country season with plenty of experience.
Junior (2021): Raced in four meets for the Blue and Gray ... season best in the 5K at the Briar Cliff Invite (22:20.6) ... placed 57th at the GPACs (22:52.1).
Sophomore (2020): Competed at six meets … dialed a collegiate-best in the 5K with a time of 20:25.2 at the Briar Cliff Invite … came away with a 61st-place finish at the conference championships (23:19.8).
Freshman (2019): Competed in six meets … recorded a season best of 21:18.6 minutes at the NAIA Seminole Valley Stampede … finished 57th at the GPAC Championships (21:43.4.).
High School: Calculated best time in the 5K was a 21:07 ... personal bests of 2:42 in the 800m and 6:09 in the 1600m... honored as team captain and team hustler in 2017 and 2018 ... tabbed with most-improved honors in 2015 and 2018 ... National Honor Society inductee ... member of the honor roll all four years.
Personal: Born Dec. 9, 2000 ... daughter of Randy and Lisa Vermeulen ... a nursing major.
News mentions
Orange City, Iowa – On a pleasantly warm fall morning, the Dakota Wesleyan University men's and women's cross country teams threw on the spikes and competed at the 2021 Great Plains Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday morning from Landsmeer Golf Course in Orange City, Iowa. After the results were finalized and the scores tallied, the Dakota Wesleyan women's squad notched an 11th-place team finish in the 5K race while the men's team registered a ninth-place finish in the 8K.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – For the second-straight meet, and under rainy and humid conditions, the Dakota Wesleyan University men’s and women’s cross country teams traversed the course at Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve as both squads competed at the Briar Cliff University Invite on Friday in Sioux City, Iowa. In the women’s 5K race, Annika Vermeulen (Mitchell, S.D.) kicked off the action while Caleb Sayler (Lennox, S.D.) and the DWU men’s team toed the line in the 8K race.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – In their second meet of the season, the Dakota Wesleyan University men's and women's cross country teams battled against stiff competition at the Morningside Invitational Meet on Friday held at the Adams Nature Preserve in Sioux City, Iowa. In the women's 5K race, it was once again Morgan Oedekoven (Pierre, S.D.) and Annika Vermeulen (Mitchell, S.D.) stepping up to the start line while the men's team came away with a sixth-place finish in the team standings.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – In their first race of the 2021 season, the Dakota Wesleyan University men’s and women’s cross country teams toed the line at the Augustana Twilight Meet on Friday night at Yankton Trail Park in Sioux Falls, S.D. Two members of the Dakota Wesleyan women’s cross country team competed in the 5K race while the DWU men battled in the 4-mile race, coming away with a 28th-place finish in the team standings.
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