Kim Mortensen

Kimberly Mortensen is the NFHS (United States High School) record holder in the 3200 meter run. Her 9:48.59, run at Cerritos College In Norwalk, California[1] on May 24, 1996 has stood since, including surviving the four year close assault by Jordan Hasay. Her performance, in the qualifying meet for the California Interscholastic Federation State Championships capped an exceptional Senior year at Thousand Oaks High School. She was the third athlete from suburban Ventura County to be named both the Gatorade Player of the Year and the Track and Field News High School Athlete of the Year, a list that includes one time teammate Marion Jones.[2] Earlier in that same season, Mortensen had won the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships. Following her record race, she went on to win the California State Championship race a week later in 9:52.80.[3] Her then championship record race still is the #4 high school time ever, only superseded by Hasay and Laurynne Chetelat's exceptional battle in the 2008 version of that same meet.

Mortensen continued to UCLA but her athletic career was cut short by a battle with anorexia nervosa[4] and its related side-effects.[5]

Mortensen is now a teacher and coach at Oaks Christian High School[6] Kim Mortensen is now married to Justin Newman and they have 3 children. They both work at Oaks Christian School. Kim is a middle school PE teacher and her husband, Justin, is a US history teacher for 8th grade.

References
  1. "High School Records—Girls". Archived from the original on June 16, 2010. Retrieved June 21, 2010. Track and Field News High School Records
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Track and Field News High School Athlete of the Year list
  3. "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  4. "Running Scared". August 8, 1998.
  5. (October 28, 1997) UCLA Women's Cross Country Team, without Top Runner Kim Mortensen, Travels to Stanford Saturday for the Pac-10 MeetArchived April 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine UCLA Press Release
  6. Speck, Doug. "Marion Jones - the Post High School Years Through 2008". Retrieved October 13, 2019.
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