Monica Fischer Class: RS Sophomore Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio High School: Wyoming Event: Cross Country/Middle Distance

2010-11: Cross Country -- Ran in one race, the 5K Miami Invitational, where she was 32nd (10th on the team) in 21:11. Track and Field -- Indoors, only ran the 800m, doing so in four meets ... posted a season-best time of 2:22.54 to take sixth at the Ball State Quadrangular ... improved her 800m time each meet. Outdoors, also only ran the 800m, running in five meets ... clocked a personal-best time of 2:18.44 to take fourth at the RedHawk Invitational ... also was fourth at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational (2:19.03).

2009-10: Indoors, competed in just three meets, running the 800m and the 600m ... posted season-best times of 2:30.89 in the 800 at the Ball State Quad (2/19/10) to take 16th and 1:46.48 in the 600 at the BGSU Challenge (1/16/10). Outdoors, posted a season-best 800m time of 2:24.29 to finish 19th and took sixth place on Miami's 4x400m relay team at the Miami Invitational (4/10/10) ... took fourth in the 800m at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold (3/27/10) ... also ran the 4x400m relay at the RedHawk Invitational (4/24/10) as her team won in 3:59.28.

High School: Earned four letters in both cross country and track at Wyoming High School under coach Dan Flaute ... served as captain of the cross country team for two years ... broke the school record in the 1600 meters with a time of 5:11, finishing sixth in the 1600m at the state meet (Div. II) as a senior in 2009 ... ran personal-best time in the 800m of 2:19 ... also helped set the school record in the 4x800m relay, which placed 15th at the Ohio state meet (Div. II) in 2008 as a junior ... earned all-state honors as a senior in 2009 ... also swam two years in high school.

Personal: Born in November of 1990 in Cincinnati ... daughter of Rebecca and Jeffery Fischer ... father, Jeff, played basketball at Thomas Moore College ... majoring in middle childhood education.