The 5-foot-5 senior broke the tape in the LHSAA Class B State Championship race this past season, clocking the fastest all-class time of the day and setting a Class B record with a time of 18:25.10 to finish 1:04 ahead of her next-closest competitor. The Raiders finished second in their class as a team. Fink won five of eight races last fall and took second twice, avenging her only loss to an in-state runner at the NXN South Regional championships, where she crossed the line 50th in a 5K personal-best 19:21.78. She also PR’d at three miles last fall with a 17:43.75 at the Catholic HS XC Invitational, where she finished second behind a runner from Tennessee.
Fink has maintained a 4.0 GPA in the classroom. She will attend LSU this fall, where she will run cross country and track.
Fink has served as a class representative and has donated her time locally as a Louisiana Marathon volunteer and as an after-school aide in the Spanish department of an elementary school. She has volunteered extensively in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area on behalf of the National Charity League, helping the homeless, the elderly and underserved children. In 2019, Fink participated in a Praying Pelicans service-mission trip to Alaska. A three-year member of the Louisiana Youth Orchestra’s violin section, Fink is also a Runnels School Student Ambassador and has been a concert master in her school’s string orchestra four consecutive years. She also works part time as a gymnastics coach.
