NJ Track Star Olivia Baker Makes her College Choice!

Olivia Baker above was voted athlete of the season last Outdoor and with good reason! / Original Photo / Don Rich for MileSplit

Olivia Baker of Columbia High School has chosen Stanford University as her fall destination as she moves onto college next school year! This well honored yet modest athlete of New Jersey won not one, not two, NOT THREE, BUT FOUR GOLD MEDALS at last season's outdoor Meet of Champions. She won the 100m in 12.05, the 200m in 23.95, the 400m in 53.84, and anchored Columbia's gold winning 4x400m team all in the same meet.The week before that at Group Championships she had already won four other golds with wins in the 100m, 200m, 400m, and 800m!! This young athlete is one of the best the state has ever seen!

She has never lost to a New Jersey runner in the 400m which is mind boggling through three years of tough competition in the great Garden State of track and field.

If you were following last season you have to remember her remarkable comeback win at Penn Relays (Video in article linked below)! Also after conquering NJ MOCs, Olivia qualified for the IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine representing some of the best the USA had to offer. She made it through her first two prelims with flying colors placing first in each, and ended up placing 2nd in the finals with a time of 53.38. 

For more on Olivia Baker check out her Athlete of the Season article from 2013 Outdoor.