Taya Skelton Season 2024

Career Performance List

Honors
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2021, 2022, 2023)
Academic All-Big Ten (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2024)
USTFCCCA All-Academic (2023)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023; Spring 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

2024
Finished 66th at the Big Ten Championships with a 6k time of 20:33.70…Was 57th at the NCAA Midwest Invitational (20:58.40)...Claimed fifth place at the Augustana Twilight with a 5k time of 17:11.93…Placed 11th at the Greeno/Dirksen Invitational with a 18:06.99…Ran a personal-best 20:57.80 6k to finish in 35th at the Bill Dellinger Invitational.

2023
Notched three top-15 finishes…Placed 66th at the NCAA Midwest Regional (21:57.6) and 53rd at the Big Ten Championship (22:31.4)...Finished eighth at the Platte River Rumble (6K, 21:51.0), 27th at the Gans Creek Invitational (6K, 21:45.9), 14th at the Greeno/Dirksen Invite (5K, 17:43.8) and 10th at the Augustana Twilight (5K, 18:09.9).

2022
Placed 104th at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a run of 21:48.9…Placed 65th at the Big Ten Championships with a season-best time of 21:37.2…Had a season-best finish of 14th with a run of 18:04.8 at the Greeno/Dirksen Invite…Clocked a season-best time of 17:41 to place 20th at the Joe Piane Invite.

2021 
Finished 109th at the NCAA Midwest Regional in a time of 22:27.8... Placed 81st at the Big Ten Championships with a time of 22:34.5... Earned back-to-back top-20 finishes to start the season, finishing fifth at the Augustana Twilight (18:36.2) and 18th a the Greeno Dirksen Invite (18:00.1)... Ran a personal-best 5K time at the Greeno Dirksen Invite (18:00.1) and a personal-best 6K time at the Bradley Pink Classic (22:14.9).

2020
Competed at the Big Ten Championships, finishing 73rd with a time of 22:26.2.

2019
Began the season at the Augustana Twilight and took 39th with a time of 19:00.5...finished 48th at the Greeno/Dirksen Invite in a time of 19:13.2.

Before Nebraska
Attended Fort Calhoun High School in Nebraska…won the 5K in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and placed fifth in 2018 at the Nebraska Class C State Championship for cross country...ran a 5K prep best of 18:54.6...won the 3,200m at the Nebraska Class B Championships during 2019 and was eighth in 2018 and fifth in both 2017 and 2016…also finished fourth in the 1,600m in 2019, eighth in 2017 and seventh in 2016 at the Nebraska Class B State Championships…had prep bests of 2:28.64 in the 800m, 5:24 in the 1,600m , 11:44 in the 3,200m and 19:12.00 in the 5,000m.

Personal
Born Sept. 18, 2000...parents are Tom and Cynthia...psychology major who earned her bachelor's degree from Nebraska in May of 2023...currently studying law at Nebraska.