The 5-foot-6 senior won the Division 2 state meet this past season with a time of 18:46.2, breaking the tape 56 seconds ahead of her next-closest competitor and leading the Tigers to a 12th-place finish as a team. LeBlond’s 17:43.8 clocking to win the Rojo Invitational ranked as the fastest 5K time by an Arizona prep girl in 2023. Winning nine of her 12 races, she took 17th at the RunningLane Championships and placed 37th at the Nike Cross Southwest Regional.
LeBlond has maintained a 4.86 weighted GPA in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to run on scholarship at the University of Oregon this fall.
A two-year captain on the Millennium cross-country team, LeBlond has volunteered locally as an archivist with Health Occupations Students of America, producing a monthly newsletter and maintaining the program’s Instagram account.
