Belvis named All-Big 12 after 14th-place finish in women's race
2011:
Finished 42nd in the 5K race at the Notre Dame Invitational on Sept. 30, clocking in at 17:46 ... Led the Tiger women to victory with her eighth-place finish at the Bradley Classic on Oct. 14, completing the 6K course in 21:25.74 ... Led the Tigers to fourth place, their best Big 12 Championships result since 2005, and earned All-Big 12 honors following her 14th-place finish at the conference championships on Oct. 29 ... Was named to the All-Midwest Region squad after taking 19th place at the regional meet on Nov. 12, finishing the 6K course in 21:35.09... Named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team.
2010: Placed fifth overall at the Missouri Cross Country Challenge, finishing in 18:27.73 ... Led the Tigers with an 11th-place finish Oct. 2 at the Greater Louisville Challenge in Louisville, Ky., posting a final time of 17:23.45 ... Finished 99thoverall and second among Tiger harriers two weeks later at the NCAA Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind., clocking in at 21:39.70 ... Led Mizzou with a 31st-place finish Oct. 30 at the Big 12 Championships in Stillwater, Okla., finishing in 21:30.76 ... Posted the Tigers top time of 20:48.66 at the NCAA Midwest Regional Nov. 13 in Peoria, Ill., good for 23rdoverall.
2009:
Emerged as one of the Tigers' top runners in 2009 and won her first collegiate race at the season-opening SIU Early Bird after clocking a 4K time of 14:10.90 ... Followed that with a third-place nod at the Missouri Cross Country Challenge after clocking a 5K time of 18:05.70 ... In fact, Belvis finished better than 16th overall in each of her first four collegiate races and finished in the top 10 in three of those ... She placed eighth overall at the Greater Louisville Invitational with a 5K time of 17:34.63, a 5K personal-record, and placed 16th at the Arkansas Chile Pepper Festival with a 6K time of 21:30.43, a personal-best... Competed for the Tigers at the Big 12 Championships where she placed 40th overall and second among Tigers with a time of 22:59.57 at AL Gustin Golf Course ... Also ran at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships and earned 54th overall with a 6K clocking of 22:09.10.
High School: Current holder of the Texas 3A State Record in cross county ... Cross County State Champion, Region Champion and District Champion (2008-2009) ... Texas State Champion, Region Champion and District Champion at 1,600m in 2009 ... Texas State Silver Medal in the 800m run during 2008...Region and District Champion in the 800m and 1,600m runs 2008 ... Prior to attending Prosper High School during her junior year, she achieved six State Championships and three State records as part of the TAPPs association of private schools, leading her team to the 2005 Texas Championship as a freshman ... Qualified for 2008 Nike Cross Nationals and one of two Texas athletes to qualify in four consecutive years for the elite division of the Texas Congress Avenue Mile, an annual event bringing the top Texas runners together by invitation only...Running club affiliation - Texas Metroplex Strider, coach Terry Jessup ... High school personal best performances include 4:59.08 in the 1,600m run, 2:16.19 I nthe 800m run, 11:09 in the 3,200m cross country run and 17:56 in the 5K cross country run. Personal: Born in Texas on June 22, 1991, Bailey is the daughter of Dean and Kelly Belvis and has one brother, Parker Belvis, who will graduate high school in 2003 ... Chose Mizzou over Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Baylor, Arkansas, Georgia, Utah and Cornell and was accepted into the Honors College with plans to major in computer science in the engineering department.
