UC Riverside

2009 Running unattached, posted a personal best 5k time of 17:48.9 at the UC Riverside Invitational ... Posted her first-ever top-10 finish at the Fullerton Invitational ...

2008 Ran cross country at UC Santa Barbara before transferring to UC Riverside ...

High School Letter winner at Vista Del Lago High School under head coach Milton Browne ... Named Athlete of the Year and received the academic honor of student of the year ... Participated in Young Black Achievers ...

Personal Serkadis Amare Krohm is the daughter of Askale Hilemariam ... Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ... Majoring in psychology with a career goal to become a psychologist ... Is the first in her family to attend college ... Considers her high school coach, Milton Browne, to be her biggest influence as an athlete because he is a tough coach who knows how much each individual athlete can handle; he always told her to dream big, and if it wasn’t for him, she would be not be running in college ... Roots for the Los Angeles Lakers and considers Ethiopian runner Tirunesh Dibaba her favorite athlete ... Watches “Degrassi” and “One on One” on television and lists “Love & Basketball,” “Sister Act 2” and “Annie” among her favorite movies ... Enjoys reading “A Child Called It” and “The Lost Boy” ... Favorite food is injera (Ethiopian bread) ... Hobbies include reading and poetry ...

2009 Outdoor Top Marks
1500m	4:49.86	April 17, 2009	Bryan Clayton Inv
5000m	17:56.39	March 7, 2009	Ben Brown Inv