Rachel Crafton

Class:
Redshirt
High School:
Hubbard

2008-09 Redshirt Junior Season

Indoor Track and Field – Posted a 57.27 finish in the 400-meter dash preliminaries at the MAC Championships, the team’s second-fastest time of the season…helped guide the distance medley relay team (11:43.56) to gold and the 4x100-meter relay team (3:46.29) to bronze at the conference finals…completed the 800-meter dash in 2:40.26 at the Kent State Dual, her fastest time of season…clocked her season personal-best time of 1:18.12 in the 500-meter dash at the Golden Flash Gala.

Outdoor Track and Field – Clocked the team’s best 400-meter hurdles time of theseason at the Campbell-Wright Open with a time of 1:00.93, rankingsixth in school history…member of the distance medley relay team thatbroke the school record at the Drake Relays with a time of11:32.30…took fourth place at the MAC Championships in the 400-meterhurdles with a 1:01.14-finish…part of the 4x400-meter relay squad thatplaced fifth at the MAC Championships with a time of 3:49.95.

2007-08 Junior Season

During the Outdoor Season - Was Redshirted

2006-07 Sophomore Season

Indoor Track and Field - Placed 22nd in the60-meter hurdles at the MAC Championships with a time of 9.89...at theKent State Tune-Up, she won the 300-meter hurdles with an indoor seasonbest time of 46.57 while also placing 23rd in the 55-meter hurdleprelims in 9.92.

Outdoor Track and Field - Placed 10th with a season-best time of 1:02.62 in the 400-meter hurdles at the Mid-American Conference Championships…finished second in the 400 hurdles (1:04.57) at the Campbell/Wright Open…placed second in the 400-meter hurdles (1:05.75) at the Northeast Ohio Quad Meet.

2005-06 Freshman Season

Indoor Track and Field - Finished third in the300-meter hurdles at the Kent State Tune-Up, clocking a time of46.51...at the Central Collegiate Championships, she recorded apersonal-best time of 1:01.06 in the 400 meters, placing sixth.

Outdoor Track and Field - At the MAC Championships, she placed 14th in the 400 meter hurdle prelims in a personal best time of 1:03.27 and 20th in the 100-meter hurdle prelims in a time of 15.90...finished second in the 400-meter hurdles (1:04.08) at the Campbell Wright Open, as well as finishing 6th in the 100-meter hurdles with a personal best time of 15.74.

Prior to Kent State

Named to the all-state, all-region and all-league teams in both her junior and senior years at Hubbard High School...an All-Region selection as a sophomore and all-league as a freshman and sophomore...in 2005, she set a new record of 45.17 in the 300-meter hurdles...earned four letters in track and two in soccer.

Personal

Born Sept. 30, 1987...daughter of Jay and Diane Crafton...majoring in architecture.