BYU Highlights
- A part of BYU's 2024 and 2025 NCAA National Championship squad
- All-American placing 39th and running 20:03.6 at the 2024 national championships
- Placed 75th at the 2025 national championships, crossed in 19:44.0
- Won the XC-23 Pre-Nationals Invitational in 19:36.2 for 6000m
- 6k personal best of 19:30.5 at the NCAA Mountain Regional (2023)
- Named All-Big 12 in 2023 and 2024
- Named All-Mountain Region in 2023, 2024 and 2025
- Named All-WCC First Team (2022)
Personal
- Parents are Daniel and Janeth Alder
- Has four siblings
- Sister Vanessa runs for BYU
- Both parents ran for BYU
- Also recruited by Duke
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
Women's Track & Field Athlete Profile
