Aubrey Frentheway

BYU Highlights

• Four-time All-American
• Named All-Big 12 (2023)
• Four-time All-WCC selection
• Three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree
• Four-time All-WCC Academic selection
• Earned All-Mountain Region honors (2022 & 2023)
• WCC Women's Cross Country Individual Champion (2022)
• Has competed in 
  • Four WCC Championships
  • One Big 12 Championships
  • Four NCAA Mountain Regionals
  • Five NCAA National Championships
• Career-best WCC finish: 1st
• Career-best Big 12 finish: 8th
• Career-best Regional finish: 5th
• Career-best Nationals Finish: 14th
• Two meet wins
• 6k collegiate-best of 19:30.6 at the NCAA Mountain Regional (2023)
• Named WCC Women's Runner of the Week Oct. 18, 2022

Personal 

• Married to Jessco Nielsen
• Major: Mathematics Education
• Parents are Marcus and Angela Frentheway 
• Has four siblings (Ethan, Jacob, Jason and Annie)

Before BYU

• Placed 25th in the 5000m championship race at the Nike Cross Nationals 2017
• Two-time WHSAAA 4A state champion in the 1600m and 3200m (2018)
• Broke the state record as a member of the 4X800m team
• Two-time WHSAAA 4A state champion in the 1600m and 3200m (2018)
• Was the Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year in Wyoming in 2018
• Was the 3200m champion at the 2018 Indoor Simplot Games
• A four-time all-state honoree in cross country
• Also recruited by Utah State, Boise State, Wyoming and East Carolina

Career Results

Junior Year 2022 

• Earned All-American honors 

• Earned All-Mountain Region honors

• WCC Women's Cross Country Individual Champion 

• Named All-WCC First Team

• Named WCC Women's Runner of the Week on Oct. 18 for her performance at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational. Her 20:06.6 finish helped the Cougars to a fourth-place team finish.  

• Named to WCC Women's Cross Country All-Academic First Team for fourth-consecutive season with a 3.58 GPA in mathematics education

• Received USTFCCCA All-Academic honors for third consecutive season

Sophomore Year 2021 

• Earned All-American honors after placing 38th at NCAA Nationals

• Contributed to the Cougars's third-straight podium finish at NCAA Nationals

• Named to the All-Region team after finishing seventh at the NCAA Mountain Regional

• Named to the All-WCC First Team after a fourth-place finish at the WCC Championships

• Competed in six meets during the 2021 season

• Named to WCC All-Academic First Team

COVID Year 2020-21

• Member of the Cougars' National Championship-winning team

• Earned All-American honors after a 15th-place finish at the NCAA Championships

• Named to All-WCC First Team

• Named to the Academic All-WCC First Team

Redshirt Year 2019