Arizona: Three-time track and field All-American... Two-time Pac-10 Champion... Ran the No. 2 time of her career in the 5000m during the 2001 track and field season... Pac-10 All-Academic second team... Clocked a time of 16:12.53 at the Stanford Invitational... Had her best finish at an NCAA Championship event at the NCAA Indoor meet, running 16:13.58 to finish second at the meet... Won the 5000m at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational, 16:45.43... Ran only one 10,000m during the season, finishing third at the Pac-10 Championships in 34:38.08... Ran 16:43.73 to finish fifth in the 5000m at the Pac-10 meet... Finished 23rd in the 5000m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships... Became the second Arizona woman to win the Pac-10 title during the 2000 cross country season... Coasted to the win in 20:10.67 at Lincoln Park in Seattle, Wash... The Pac-10 women's individual champion has now come from Arizona five of the last six years, since Amy Skieresz won the title four times from 1995-98... Also won the titles at the Purdue Invitational (21:27.4) and Roy Griak Invitational (21:00)... Earned All-West Region honors with an eighth-place finish (20:44) at the NCAA West Regional... Finished 45th (21:32.2) at the NCAA Championships... Academic All-Pac-10 second team... For the second straight season, Chaplin qualified for the 5000m and 10,000m at the NCAA Championships during the 2000 track and field season... Finished 12th in both events at the meet in Durham, N.C... Also competed in the 10,000m at the 2000 Olympic Trials, finishing 22nd in 34:38.28... Ran the second-best 10,000m time in school history, 33:17.39, at the Mt. SAC Relays, which is also the No. 4 time in Pac-10 history... Qualified for the NCAA meet in the 5000m with a time of 16:11.73 at the Cardinal Invitational... That time is No. 4 in UA history... Finished fifth and received All-America honors in the 5000m at the NCAA Indoor Championships... Was fourth in both the 3000m and 5000m at the Pac-10 Championships... Second team Academic All Pac-10... 2000 Mary P. Roby Academic Achievement Award Winner... Team's No. 1 runner during the 1999 cross country season... Won the first two races of the season -- the Asics/UCI Invitational and the Aztec Invitational... Finished fifth at the Pacific-10 Conference Championships (17:24.75)... Finished 33rd at the NCAA Championships (17:27.40)... With the absence of senior Amy Skieresz because of injury, Chaplin stepped up and became the Wildcats' No. 1 distance runner in 1999 track and field... Competed in four NCAA Championship events (indoor 3000m and 5000m and outdoor 5000m and 10,000m)... Won the Pac-10 Conference title in the 5000m, holding off Standord's Julia Stamps down the stretch to win in 16:35.98... Earned All-America recognition by finishing ninth in the 10,000m at the NCAA Championships (34:52.96)... Finished 15th in the 5000m at the NCAA outdoor meet... Was the top freshman in the nation in both events... Her top 10,000m time of the year (34:35.11), No. 5 all-time at UA, came at the Mt. SAC Relays... Ran 16:18.81 at the Cardinal Invitational, also No. 5 all-time, her best outdoor 5000m of the year... Named the 1999 MPSF Female Indoor Athlete of the Year after winning the 3000m and the 5000m at the MPSF meet in Reno, Nev... Earned the first All-America honors of her career by finishing 10th in the 5000m at the NCAA Indoor meet with a time of 16:25.25... Also finished 12th in the 3000m at the Indoor Championships... Ran her best indoor 5000m time of the year, 16:16.06, at the Cannon IV Classic in Indianapolis... During the 1998 cross country season, finished second in her first collegiate race, the Irvine Invitational, only eight seconds behind teammate Amy Skieresz... Was second, behind Skieresz, at the Aztec Invitational, the Mountain West Classic and the NCAA Pre-Meet... Hampered by the cold weather, finished 12th at the Pac-10 Championships... 14th at the NCAA West Regional... Finished 85th, the Wildcats' No. 2 runner, at the NCAA Championships in Lawrence, Kan... Chaplin accomplished a first for an Arizona freshman in 1998-99 by competing in five NCAA Championship events her first year of competition... She not only ran at the NCAA cross country meet, but she also competed in two races at both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships...
High School: Attended U-32 High School in Montpelier, Vt... Won four letters in both cross country and track and field, and three in nordic (cross country) skiing... Led her cross country team to three state championships (1995, '96, '97)... A four-time state champion in the 3000m... Finished second in the national indoor two-mile event... Four-time all-state performer in track and was an All-American in her senior season... Although they were not varsity sports, competed in indoor track and alpine (downhill) skiing... As a senior, her indoor 3000m time of 9:46 ranked first in the nation... Was second in the indoor two-mile... Most valuable athlete her senior and junior seasons... Holds the state record in the 1500m, 3000m and 3200m... Her track and field team was the state champion in 1996 and the runners-up in 1995 and '94... Her cross country team was the state runner-up in 1996...
Personal: Tara Elizabeth Chaplin... Born Oct. 23, 1980... Daughter of Mark and Jessica Lyle Chaplin... Has two 14-year-old sisters, Kim and Kelly... Academic area of interest at UA is studio art... Hobbies include telemark skiing and making jewelry... Career ambition is to become an artist.
