Welcome to Wake Forest, Carolien Millenaar!
3/17/2021 4:30:00 PM | Track and Field
Wake Forest Director of Track & Field announced the addition of South Alabama graduate transfer distance runner, Carolien Millenaar.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The Wake Forest track and field team bolstered their women's distance running group with the addition of South Alabama graduate transfer Carolien Millenaar for the 2021-22 season.
Millenaar, a Sørvad, Denmark native, is a South Alabama school record holder in the steeplechase and has earned All-Sun Belt Conference honors in multiple events the past few years. Academically, Millenaar was a biology major at South Alabama. At Wake Forest, she plans to enroll in the sustainability program.
"We are so excited to welcome Carolien (Millenaar) into the Demon Deacon family," Assistant Coach Ashley Bastron said. "She had a strong fall cross country season, winning her conference championship and qualifying for NCAA Cross Country Nationals. That championship experience is going to help our team immensely. She has a great range from 800 meters to 6,000 meters and it is going to be fun to explore which event she will specialize in on the track next year. Carolien's character, strong academics and leadership stuck out to us right away during the recruiting process and I know she will make a positive impact on our team, both on and off the track. I have no doubt she will make our Deacon Nation very proud."
Carolien Millenaar Bio & TFRRS Profile for Complete Results:
South Alabama:
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2021: Indoor – Captured the Sun Belt Conference championship in the 5,000m run with a time of 16:51 at the league meet … Finished second in the 3,000m at the conference meet … Earned a runner-up finish in the 6,000m (20:53) at the Blazer Classic … XC -- Qualified for the national meet and finished in 117th (21:38) at the NCAA Cross Country Championships ... Captured first place at the Sun Belt Conference Championship in 17:12 in the 5k race.
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2020: Outdoor – Did not compete. Indoor – Earned a runner-up finish at Sun Belt Conference Championships in the 3000m (9:44) and the 5000m (16:50).
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2019: Outdoor — Set a new Jaguar 3,000m steeplechase record of 10:40.44, ran the eighth-fastest 5,000m time in USA history (17:29.82) and finished fourth in the 1,500m (4:36.62) at the Sun Belt Outdoor Championships … Won the 800m and took fourth place in the school record books with a time of 2:12.57 at Samford's Alabama Track Challenge; earned a victory in the same event at the South Alabama Invitational (2:15.18) … Claimed top-five finishes in the War Eagle Invitational 800m (2:13.33, fifth) and 1,500m (4:33.84, fourth; sixth in USA records). Indoor — Finished fifth in the Sun Belt Indoor Championships 3,000m (9:58.56) and 5,000m (17:40.46); both times rank seventh on the all-time USA performance lists … Ran the eighth-fastest mile in Jaguar program history, 5:00.58, to place third at the Jaguar Invitational; won the 3,000m at the same meet with a time of 10:13.48. XC — Earned all-Sun Belt honors for the second time in her career as she placed seventh at the league championship event with a time of 17:53 … Placed 11th or better in four of her other five races … Won each of the first two meets of the season taking home individual titles at the Azalea City Classic (18:17) and at the 5th Annual Wingfoot Classic where she posted a career-best time of 17:36, the first sub-18 time of her career … Placed fourth the following meet at the 14th Annual Foothills Invitational with a time of 18:05 … Competed at the NCAA South Regional.
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2018: Outdoor — Set a new Jaguar record of 10:56.51 in the 3,000m steeplechase at the War Eagle Invitational … Finished third in the same event at the Sun Belt Conference Championships with a time of 11:01.22 … Earned second place in the 800m (2:15.93) and 1,500m (4:44.90) at the South Alabama Invitational …Crossed the line in 4:42.69 to finish fifth in the Southern Miss Open 1,500m run. Indoor — Claimed third-team all-conference honors with a 17:46.06 in the Sun Belt Championships 5,000m race; ran the 3,000m in 10:02.88 at the same meet to finish fourth and take eighth place in the all-time USA records for both events … Finished third in the Samford January Invitational 800m with a time of 2:18.07. XC — Finished second in the Azalea City Classic 5k with a time of 18:45 … Ran her best 5k of the season at the 30th Annual Chile Pepper Festival (18:06) and crossed the line in 18:18 at the Sun Belt Cross Country Championships.
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2017: XC — Ran the 5K in a personal-best 18:04 at the Sun Belt Championships … Finished second in the Azalea City Classic 5K with a time of 18:09.2 … Completed the 6K in 21:44 at the NCAA Division I South Region Championships and 22:19 at the Crimson Classic.
High School:
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Attended Herning Gymnasium in Herning, Denmark … Was the Danish national junior champion in the 400m and finished second in the Danish national indoor 3k.
Personal:
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Born on March 25, 1997, in Wieringermeer, Netherlands … Daughter of Dirk and Ageeth Millenaar … Has an older brother, Gijs, and an older sister, Joan … Favorite movie is "The Shawshank Redemption" … Favorite book is "Pride and Prejudice" … Favorite musical artists include Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean and Macklemore, among others … Favorite hobbies include swimming, climbing and hanging out with friends and family Majoring in biology.
