Rose came to Pomona after also being accepted to Haverford,Middlebury, Barnard and Rice. "I love that running requirestwo extremes of discipline," says Haag. "To race well you have tolay it all out and give everything you've got. To train well youhave to just put on your shoes and go for a run again and again andagain. For me, becoming good at both these things is reallyabout learning to conquer my mind..."
Rose loves the Pomona-Pitzer program because it "gives us somuch freedom to figure out how to train, how to fit running intoour lives, and how to motivate ourselves. I think we eachdevelop internal motivation and discipline. The demands come fromourselves, not from any external pressure, which means that themental conquest that inevitably happens is pretty easily applied toall aspects of our lives."
2009 Highlights: Led the team at the UC IrvineInvite with her 19:35, and led the squad again at the UC Riversidemeet with a cross country PR of 18:46. Rose finished second on theteam at the home West Region Preview Meet, clocking 23:48 over 6000meters. Rose ran 23:40 at the SCIAC Multi-Dual meet to finish 8thoverall and third on the team, and then raced a spectacular 23:50at the SCIAC Championships to finish fifth overall and earn FirstTeam All Conference honors. Rose finished second on the team at theNCAA West Region Championships with her 14th place in 23:12 to earnAll-Region honors. In addition, Rose earned an individual berth tothe NCAA Championships in Ohio, where she finished in 112th placeout of 280 runners.
2008 Highlights: Ran 19:51 at theseason-opening UC Irvine 5k, and then ran a PR 24:20 to finish in6th place at the Redlands 6000m Invite. Ran a PR 19:20 at the UCRiverside Invite in late September. Finished 5th in the mid-OctoberSCIAC Multi-Duals in a PR 23:17. Finished ninth in 24:25 at theSCIAC Championships to earn First Team All-SCIAC honors. Ran astrong 23:06 PR at the NCAA West Regional meet to finish All Regionin 25th and earn a berth on the team to Nationals. Ran 23:17 atNationals to finish fourth on the team.
