Alea Hardie Season 2022

Career Performance List

Honors
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award (First Team, 2026)
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2024, 2025, 2026)
Academic All-Big Ten (2023, 2024, 2025)
Nebraska Outstanding Scholar (2026)
Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society (2025)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024*, 2025*; Spring 2023*, 2024, 2025* 2026*)
Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
*Denotes 4.0 GPA

2026
Indoor: Took the title in the women’s mile race at the Husker Holiday Open with a time of 4:56.18…Won the women’s 3,000m race running 9:41.31 at the Mark Colligan Memorial...Claimed sixth place in the women's mile (4:55.68) and ninth in the women's 800m (2:14.40) at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational...Placed second in the women's mile running 4:53.77 at the Nebraska Tune-Up.

Outdoor: Finished first in the women's 1,500m crossing the line in 4:33.32 at the Husker Spring Kick-Off... Claimed second place and a new personal best 4:30.55 in the women's 1,500m at the Big Red Classic... Won the open division 5,000m with a time of 16:54.69 at the Drake Relays... Won the women's 1,500m with a time of 4:23.99 at the Nebraska Spring Tune-Up...Ran 17:47.13 to finish 28th in the women's 5,000m race at the Big Ten Championships.

2025
Indoor: Ran 2:54.16 to finish third in the 1,000m at the Graduate Classic…Earned her second third-place season finish at the Mark Colligan Memorial in the 800m with a 2:13.45…Contributed to a first-place finish in the distance medley relay at the Dr. Rick McGuire Invitational (11:16.82)...In the mile, placed second at the Nebraska Tune-Up (5:00.24) and finished sixth at the Frank Sevigne, running 4:57.79…Contributed to a 10th-place finish in the distance medley relay at the Big Ten Championships (11:27.51).

Outdoor: Finished sixth in the 800m at the Ward Haylett Invite (2:14.19)...Has two top-five finishes in the 1,500m at the KT Woodman (fifth; 4:34.35) and Central Nebraska Challenge (first; 4:43.11)...Contributed to an eighth-place finish in the 4x400 University division, running 3:43.82.

2024
Indoor: Did not compete.

Outdoor: Did not compete.

2023
Did not compete.

2022
Became the first Husker to open the season with three individual victories since 1987…First Husker with three individual victories in a season since 1991…Named Big Ten Women’s Cross Country Athletes of the Week twice on the season…Set a school record with a time of 16:44.2 to win the Joe Piane Invite…Opened collegiate career with a first-place finish and run of 17:00.1 at the Augustana Twilight…Won the Greeno/Dirksen Invite with a time of 16:57.9…Placed 39th at the Big Ten Championships with a finish of 21:12.

Before Nebraska
Attended O’Gorman High School in Sioux Falls, S.D…first female athlete in South Dakota high school history to win three consecutive state cross country titles…helped team capture state cross country championship in back-to-back seasons…won nine state championships on the track while helping team win two state titles…holds the South Dakota state record in the 4K and 3,200m…earned all-conference and all-state recognition…named Gatorade Girls Cross Country Player of the Year…lettered six years in cross country and four years in track.

Personal
Born on Oct. 2, 2003…parents are Mark and Sara Hardie…has five brothers and one sister…psychology major who earned her bachelor's degree from Nebraska in May 2026.