BYU Highlights
- Has competed in nine-career meets
- 6k collegiate-best: 20:23.8 to finish ninth at the WCC Championships on Oct. 28, 2022
- Named All-WCC First Team (2022)
- Competed at 2022 NCAA National Championships
Personal
- Parents are Daniel and Janeth Alder
- Has four siblings
- Both parents ran for BYU
- Also recruited by Duke
- Instagram: carmenalder36
Before BYU
- Three-time (2019, 2020, 2021) North Carolina Girls Cross Country Gatorade Player of the Year
- Earned 11 individual state titles between cross country/track and field
- Four-time (2021, 2019, 2018, 2017) North Carolina cross country state champion
- Led high school to 29th-straight Sandhills Athletic Conference title
- Holds North Carolina’s fastest girls 5K time of 16:58.90
- Two-time indoor 1600m (2020, 2019) and 3200m (2020, 2018) North Carolina state champion
- Two-time outdoor 1600m (2019, 2018) and 2018 3200m North Carolina state champion
- Fifth-place finish at the National XC Town USA Meet of Champions