Carmen Alder Season 2024

BYU Highlights

• Ran the 1200m leg on the DMR squad that broke the NCAA and BYU school records at the 2025 Husky Classic (10:37.58)
• Second Team All-American in the indoor mile placing 15th in 2024 and 2025
• No. 2 all-time at BYU in the indoor mile running 4:29.49 at the 2025 Harvard Invitational
• No. 4 all-time at BYU in the outdoor 1500m running 4:08.56 at the 2026 Stanford Invitational
• No. 8 all-time at BYU in the indoor 5000m running 15:51.98 at the 2023 Boston Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener
• No. 9 all-time at BYU in the indoor 3000m with a time of 9:02.56 at the 2025 Husky Classic 
• 2026 Stanford Invitational 1500m champion as she clocked a 4:08.56
• Placed fifth in the 1500m at the 2025 Big 12 outdoor championships
• Placed sixth in the mile at the 2025 Big 12 indoor championships

Personal

• Parents are Daniel and Janeth Alder
• Major: Pre-Business
• Has four siblings, sister Vanessa also on BYU squad
• Both parents ran for BYU
• Also recruited by Duke
• Mother, Janeth Caizalitin Alder, a two-time All-American at BYU
  • 1996 Indoor 3000m
  • 1994 Outdoor 1500m

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

Career Stats