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UC San Diego

2015 Cross Country Roster

Corinne Hinkle

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • High School West Valley HS
  • Hometown Cottonwood, CA
  • Major Public Health

Biography

AS A SENIOR IN 2015
All-CCAA for her 12th-place finish at league championships ... USTFCCCA All-Academic ... CCAA All-Academic ... CCAA Fall All-Academic ... Competed in five races and was a scorer in all of them ... Took 13th overall at the UC Irvine Invitational with a time of 18:34.23 for five kilometers ... Finished 18th at the Southern Stampede, completing the five-kilometer course in 17:46.09 ... Won the Coyote Challenge in 22:19.40 over six kilometers ... Ran 22:16.04, placing 44th, at the NCAA West Regionals.

AS A JUNIOR IN 2014
USTFCCCA All-Academic ... CCAA All-Academic ... Ran in all seven races ... Named All-CCAA for her eighth place performance at the league championships (22:49.8) ... Was the second Triton finisher at the NCAA West Regionals with a 37th-place finish (22:41.08) ... Had a 111th-place finish at the NCAA Championships (23:15.6) ... Was the top UCSD finisher at the Triton Invitational with a fourth-place performance (22:37.8) ... Had a 13th-place perfromance as the Tritons' top runner at the UC Riverside Invitational (21:30.2) ... Individual winner of California Baptist Invite with a time of 14:13.047 over four-kilometers ... UCSDtritons.com Athlete of the Week (9/8).

HIGH SCHOOL
A 2012 graduate of West Valley High School in Cottonwood ... Made all-league track and field team all four years (2009-12) ... Earned WVHS Track Coach's Award as both a freshman (2009) and senior (2012) ... Was named "WVHS Track Runner of the Year" as a junior (2011) ... Earned "Northern Athletic League Scholar-Athlete of the Year" Award as a senior (2012) ... Was the 2012 Northern Section CIF (NSCIF) Champion in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 5 minutes, 22.18 seconds ... Helped set WVHS record (12:40.46) as third leg of distance medley relay team as a freshman at the Arcadia Invitational to finish in 20th place overall (2009) ... Ran closing leg of NSCIF Champion 4x400 relay team (4:06.58) during freshman year (2009) ... Made WVHS team records in the 4x800 relay in both her junior and senior years (2011-12) with times of 9:49.12 at the Arcadia Invitational to finish sixth overall and 9:43.47 at the Stanford Invitational to finish fourth, respectively ... Earned personal-best times of 2:18.85 in the 800 (West Valley/Chico Invitational, 1st) and 4:48.25 in the 1,500 (Grants Pass Rotary Invitational Track and Field Meet, 2nd) as a senior in 2012 ... Also competed one year each in both basketball and cross country for the Eagles ... Had best three-mile race at the NSCIF Finals (19:48.30, 7th) and fastest 5k at the NAL Center Meet (21:10, 3rd) during her senior year in 2011 ... Additionally, played for the Butte United Soccer Club in Chico and the North Valley United Soccer Club in Redding as well as for the California Youth Soccer Association (CYSA) District IX Olympic Development Soccer Team.

PERSONAL
Born March 1, 1994 in Fullerton ... Parents are Brad and Brenda Hinkle ... Has a younger sister named Jenna ... Sister, Jenna, is on the cross country and track & field teams at UC Santa Barbara ... Grandfather Tom Byrnes played football and baseball at Occidental College and is a retired CIF State Commissioner ... Grandfather Oliver Hinkle played football at Cal Poly ... Uncle Tim Byrnes played football at Cal State Fullerton and is head football coach at Fullerton College ... Public health major at Roosevelt College ... Would like to become a physician's assistant in oncology after graduation from UCSD ... Lists breaking her own personal record in the 1500 meters as her most memorable moment ... Likes hanging out with her friends and family in her spare time ... Has two pet goats named Snow White and CJ ... Roots for the U.S. women's national soccer team ... Mia Hamm is her favorite athlete ... Top movie is Mean Girls ... Listens to Beyonce and Kid Cudi ... Loves frozen yogurt ... Her family are her greatest influences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014Junior

    5'6"
  • 2015Senior

    5'6"

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