Zoie Ecord Season 2024-25

Career Performance List

Honors
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar (Second Team, 2026)
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2024, 2025, 2026)                                                                      
Academic All-Big Ten (2023)
Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society (2025)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022, 2023, 2024; Spring 2023, 2024, 2026*)
Sam Foltz 27 Hero Leadership Award (2026)
Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
*Indicates 4.0 Semester GPA

2025
Indoor: Earned three top-10 finishes at the Graduate Classic in the 1000m (10th; 3:01.05), 800m (seventh; 2:17.14), and 4x400 (fifth; 4:02.75)...Competed in the mile at the Mark Colligan Memorial, running a personal best 5:12.75…Added another top-10 finish in the 800m at the Dr. Rick McGuire Invitational, running 2:16.93.

Outdoor: Ran a season’s best 4:45.32 in the 1500m at the Prairie Wolf Outdoor Invitational, earning second…Placed seventh in the 800m at the Ward Haylett Invite, running 2:15.53…Finished eighth in the 1500m at the Central Nebraska Challenge, running 4:59.43…Ran 2:18.73, finishing 17th in the 800m at the KT Woodman and finished 29th in the 1500m, running 4:55.12.

Cross Country: Finished 46th at the Platte River Rumble 5k with the time of 19:13.65... Ran 22:51.1 in the Open Division 6k at the Gans Creek Classic, finishing in 26th... Finished in 309th at Pre-Natinals 6k with the time of 23:11.5... Ran 23:42.1 at the Big Ten Championships 6k, finishing in 157th.

2024
Indoor: Finished third in the 800m (2:17.40) at the Graduate Classic and third in the 600m (1:38.97) at the Mark Colligan Memorial.

Outdoor: Did not compete.

Cross Country: Placed 36th at the Augustana Twilight with a 5k time of 18:24.93…ran a PR 6k time of 23:08.70 at the Bill Dellinger Invitational.

2023
Indoor: Recorded a personal-best 800m time at the Nebraska Tune-Up, placing 13th with a 2:19.41.

Outdoor: Ran in the runner-up 4x400m relay at the Prairie Wolf Invite (4:11.78) and finished seventh in the 800m (2:24.44).

Cross Country: Placed 73rd at the Platte River Rumble with a time of 24:35.1…Ran a 24:23.4 at the Gans Creek Invite (176th) and a 20:19.8 in the 5K at the Greeno/Dirksen Invite (154th).

2022 
Cross Country: Ran a season-best time of 18:50.7 to place 30th at the Augustana Twilight…Finished 64th with a run of 19:05.9 at the Greeno/Dirksen Invite.

Before Nebraska
Attended Maize High School in Maize, Kan…four-year letterwinner in cross country and three-year letterwinner in track…named to all-metro team for three years in cross country…was a four-time Class 5A all-state selection in cross country…Best of Kansas Preps all-state cross country team honoree in 2019…three-time selection to the all-metro team in track…earned Class 5A all-state recognition in track for three years.

Personal
Daughter of Jed and Jenny Ecord…has one brother, Kael…food science and technology major who earned her bachelor's degree from Nebraska in May 2026.