2025 Women's Track & Field Roster
Sanders, Sara
Sara Sanders
- Position:
- Throws
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- High School:
- Jesuit HS
- Hometown:
- Portland, Ore.
Bio
TFRRS Profile
2025
Outdoor:
2024
Outdoor:
2023
2025
Outdoor:
- Placed 20th at the NCAA Championships, earning All-America Honorable Mention
- Pac-12 Women's Track Athlete of the Year
- Pac-12 Track and Field Scholar Athlete of the Year
- Academic All-District honoree
- Finished 12th in the javelin throw at the NCAA West Regional
- Placed third in the javelin at the OSU High Performance Meet
- Took third in the javelin at the Oregon Open
2024
Outdoor:
- Placed 11th in the javelin throw at the Pac-12 Championships
- Took 27th at the NCAA West Regional in the javelin throw
- Finished second in the javelin at the Oregon State High Performance Meet
2023
- Missed the 2023 season while recovering from an injury
- Missed the 2022 season due to injury
- Competed in the javelin in eight meet for OSU
- Threw the third-best mark in program history of 47.86m (157' 0") at the NCAA West Regionals
- Won the Mt. West Challenge with a throw of 43.26m
- Finished in the top-10 in seven of eight events
- Lettered three years in track & field and participated in the javelin
- First-Team All-State honors in 2018
- Second-Team All-State in 2017 and 2019
- Holds the No. 1 record for a sophomore and No. 2 for junior and senior
- Notched a personal best mark of 144'2.75 for a first-place finish at the USATF Region 13 Junior Olympic Championships (7/19)
- Took first place at the 6A State Championships with a mark of 143'02
- Daughter of Steve and Lisa Sanders
- Has one sister, Kimberly
- Graduated in June 2023 with a B.S. in Kinesiology, minor in chemistry, with the Pre-therapy and Allied Health Option in pre-physician assistant studies
- Served as a CNA (certified nurse aid) for almost two and a half years and volunteers in the Translational Metabolism Research Lab on campus
- Played volleyball for seven years before taking on javelin during sophomore year due to injury
Writing Her Chapter - Sydney Guthrie-Baker Shares Her Dam Change Story
Wednesday, February 17
Oregon State Track and Field
Tuesday, June 14
Track & Field Recap: High Performance Meet 5/1/15
Tuesday, June 14
Track & Field Dual Meet vs Utah Recap 3/21/15
Tuesday, June 14
