Michelle/Frey

Achievements:

2009 - 4th place USA 25k Championships
2007 – 3rd place USA 25k Championship
2007 – 3rd place USA Half Marathon Championship
2006 – 4th place USA Marathon Championship

Notes:

Michelle is from Iowa City where she was a seven time state champion in track and cross country for Iowa City High School and was a sixth place finisher at the Foot Locker Cross Country championships in 1999. In 2000, she set the Iowa high school 3000 meter record of 9:47.53.

At the University of Wisconsin, she earned All-Big Ten honors and recorded personal bests of 9:35 in the 3000, 16:47 in the 5000, and 35:53 in the 10,000. She graduated in 2005 with a double major in communications and Spanish and moved to Philadelphia to attend graduate school at Drexel University, where she majored in higher education administration.

Michelle made her marathon debut in 2005 when she finished third in the Philadelphia Marathon in 2:49:22. At her second marathon, she finished 16th overall and was the second U.S. finisher at Boston in 2006 with a time of 2:40:23. At the 2006 USA Women's Marathon Championship, she posted 2:35:51 to place 4th. In 2007, she ran a personal best of 1:12:46 at the USA Half Marathon Championships for third place, and was third in a time of 1:29:53 at the USA 25k Championships. She competed in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Women's Marathon Trials.

In 2009, Michelle competed in the USA Half Marathon Championships, the USA 15k Championships, the USA 7 Mile Championships and the USA Women's Marathon Championship.

Michelle joined Team USA Minnesota in August 2007.