Sophie Schumacher '26 Recruiting Profile

My name is Sophie Schumacher and I came to the USA in July 2023. Before I came here, I have never even thought about running in a team and participating in races. I did not even know that there was something called XC and I haven't had much contact to Track and Field before either. As I started running my whole life changed, I got Friends through the team that I am meeting almost every day by now, I learned how to take care of myself and how to run most importantly. I feel like I am a good match for a lot of teams because of my ability of running fast is increasing continuously. It feels like there is no end of running faster times if I just keep training hard. When I started running last year, my first 5k ever was about 27 minutes long. I still remember how done I was afterwards and I heard myself saying that I can't do this anymore. But I did not give up. And in my first race I ran a 24 minutes, 3 mile. This kept going and I got a PR of about 21:50 minutes done at the end of the XC season. This season I even reached a personal best of 20:35. In Track, I have participated in 2 seasons, where I increased my times too. Now, I love running. My Team is incredible of showing Team Spirit and pushed me to higher levels than I could have imagined. I will try to achieve the same in Collage and even go higher and I am really thankful for the opportunity to run and train in a Team. Especially because I know, that there is not such thing everywhere.