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Amy Hall

Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field, 2005-2008

Eutectics Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2024

When Amy Hall joined the STLCOP women’s cross country team in 2005 (only four years after the program’s inception), she effectively changed the landscape of the program from a fledgling start-up team to a fully competitive college program. In her first season of collegiate competition, the freshman from West Plaines, Mo., became the first Eutectic athlete to win a conference championship and qualify for the NAIA National Championships, setting a new standard for distance running at STLCOP.

Amy won the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) women’s cross country championships in 2005, 2006, and 2007, earning the title of KIAC Runner of the Year all three seasons. She placed among the top-10 finishers in the NAIA Region XII each of those years and punched three tickets to the NAIA National Cross Country Championships. Her 85th-place finish (of 268) at the 2007 NAIA Championships is the highest finish for any Eutectic cross country runner in history. As of her induction, Amy’s time of 18:42 (set at the 2007 Evansville University Invitational) remains the Eutectic 5K women’s cross country record. She is still the only athlete in Eutectic cross country history to win a conference champion title. 

In the spring of 2007, prior to STLCOP’s official sponsorship of a track team, Amy trained for the Marathon, becoming the first Eutectic athlete to compete in a Track & Field event. By running a qualifying time at a Half-Marathon event, she qualified to compete in the NAIA National Track & Field Championships in Fresno, Calif., where she finished in 17th place. The following spring (2008), she clocked 1:28:39 in the Half-Marathon to qualify for the Marathon national championships for a second time. At Nationals, she narrowly missed All-American recognition with an 11th-place finish in the event, finishing with a time of 3:13:44. At the time of her induction, both of those Half-Marathon and Marathon times remain Eutectic records.