Allie Ostrander

She bounced back to run in the Olympic Trials, setting a personal best of (9:26.96) for the steeplechase while finishing in 8th place in the finals.

She had qualified for the 10,000-meter run but chose to forego the event.

Her domestic partner is Spencer Brown, a former Brooks Beasts middle-distance runner and host of YouTube channel The Athlete Special.

In high school, Ostrander played on the basketball team alongside her running, in which she was coached by her mother.

Her main events were in cross country, hurdles (48.31 PR for 300m), and distance running.

She won her first state 4A (large school) championship when only a sophomore.

Allison "Allie" Ostrander (born December 24, 1996) is an American long-distance runner from Soldotna, Alaska.

Ostrander was born in Kenai, Alaska in 1996, the daughter of Teri and Paul Ostrander.

In July she finished in 8th place in the Olympic Trials 5,000 meters.

Ostrander returned to form by winning the Stanford invitational 3000 m steeplechase in 9:55.61.

In May, at the Mountain West Championships, she set a PR while winning the 10000 m running in 35:51.2.

She finished second in the 5,000 in that meet with a time of 16:20.45.

She won the half-distance, junior version of the race six consecutive times from 2009 to 2014, beating not only the girls but the boys in her final year of the Junior race.

In 2013, despite only six weeks of training, she finished second to Alexa Efraimson of Washington state, clocking 10:03.66 in the prestigious Arcadia Invitational 3200m in California.

She has an older sister, Taylor, who was a top middle distance, steeplechase, and cross country runner at Kenai Central High School and at the NCAA Division III Willamette University, where she had a best steeple time of 10:40:06 as a sophomore in 2014.

In 2014, her senior year, she won the Nike National Cross-Country high school championship.

In September, Ostrander won the U20 World Mountain Running Championships in Betws-y-Coed, Wales, UK.

Later that month, she finished second in the 6 km Roy Griak Invitational cross country race.

On October 16, she won the prestigious Wisconsin Adidas Invitational 6 km in 19:19.5.

Two weeks later, she won her Mountain West Conference championship, followed in another two weeks by an NCAA Division I West Region victory.

A standout in both athletics and academics, Ostrander graduated from Kenai Central high school in 2015.

She began competing in the steeplechase while running for the Boise State Broncos, where she was an Honors student, finishing with a 4.0 Grade Point Average.

Ostrander frequently competes in the Mount Marathon Race in Seward, Alaska, which she began running in grade school.

In 2015, in her first senior race, which climbs to the 3,022-foot summit and returns to sea level, she finished under the standing 25-year-old female runners record, but was beaten by world skyrunning champion Emelie Forsberg.

On November 21, she finished as the runner up in the 2015 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in 19:33.6, a performance others called remarkable for a freshman.

In January, Ostrander set a personal record (PR) for 5000 m, with a 15.21.85 second-place performance at the University of Washington Invitational indoor meet.

At the Husky Classic in February she set another PR, running 8:54.27 for 3,000 meters.

Later that month she anchored her Broncos distance medley team to a first-place finish at the Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championships, but was sidelined with an injury soon afterward.

The repeat NCAA Division I steeplechase champion in 2017, 2018 and 2019, she competed for the Boise State University Broncos.

In 2017, Ostrander won with her best time to date, 49:19.

In 2021, Ostrander was hospitalized for treatment of an unspecified eating disorder.

In June, she won the 2017 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships steeplechase title in 9:41.31.

Just a few hours later, she finished fourth in the 5,000 meters.

In November, she ended her hiatus from cross country finishing second in the 6,000 meters in the NCAA West Region Championships with a career best time of 19:16.5, then finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships on November 18.

Running as a redshirt sophomore at the Mountain West Indoor Championships in February, she set a PR for the mile run in 4:46.06, finished second in the 3,000 meters, and again anchored Boise State's winning distance medley squad.

On May 10, 2018, Ostrander finished less than a second behind collegiate event record holder Karissa Schweizer in the 2018 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships at 3,000 meters, registering a time of 8:54.35.

On March 29, 2018 moving outdoors, she set a PR, winning the Stanford Invitational, with a steeple time of 9:38.57.

It was the world's fastest time in 2018 for the event by that date.

Dropping in distance, she ran a PR 4:15.06 for 1500 m at the Bryan Clay Invitational.

In July 2019, Ostrander announced her plans to forgo her final season of NCAA eligibility and begin running professionally.