Vanessa Alder Season 2025

Personal

• Parents are Daniel and Janeth Alder
• Major: Biology or Archeology
• Fluent in Spanish
• Holds a Young Women's calling for her church
• Both Father and Mother ran track & field and cross country at BYU
• Also recruited by Wake Point, Wake Forest, Eastern Michigan University, Tulane and Ithaca College
• Huge Indiana Jones fan

Before BYU

• Won the girl's 1500m and 3000m for Campeonatos Sul-Americanos Sub18 de Atletismo in Brazil (2022)
• Ecuadorian record holder for 3000m Youth 18
• First place DoDEA Europe Cross Country Championships (2022)
• Won the girl’s 1500m at the South American Youth 18 Games in Argentina in 2022
• 4.0 or higher GPA senior year of high school (2022-2023)
• Second place at the NCHSAA 4A Cross Country Championship (2019)
• Venturing Crew vice president (2019-2021)
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