Mary Baldwin University

Sophia Stone, who lives in Washington, D.C., set high standards at Mary Baldwin with a cross country career that produced a number of first-team and first-time awards for the Squirrels. 

In her sophomore and junior seasons, Stone won the USA South Athletic Conference cross country championship.  She went on to capture the individual gold medals as Regional Runner of the Year three times in the NCAA Division III South/Southeast championship races.  Nationally, she achieved first-team All-America recognition, finishing 31st in the national championship race in 2011 and 19th place in 2012. 

Stone, who still owns the team records in the 5,000-meter run (18.24) and the 6,000-meter run (21:17), was also stellar in the classroom, earning first team CoSIDA Academic All-America honors twice.  She is the only Mary Baldwin University student-athlete to be named to the national Academic All-America team.

Stone was the Mary Baldwin Newcomer of the Year in 2011, Athlete of the Year in 2012 and 13 and was a three-time Mary Jane Donnalley award winner for posting the highest grade point average among student-athletes.  In 2022, she became the first Mary Baldwin athlete to be inducted into the USA South Athletic Conference Hall of Fame.