Clarion Athletics

2023-24
2024 Outdoor

• Pair of third place finises on the year, at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational (3/29) in the 3000m run finishing at 11:17.00 and at the SRU Dave Labor Invitational (4/5) in 10,000m event with a time of 40:07.07 
• Placed 11th in the 5000m event at the Stan Romanoski Open crossing the finish line at 19:34.17

2024 Indoor 

• Competed in one indoor meet, at the Bison Open and Multi, finished with a seventh place finish in the 5000m crossing the line at 20:25.62 to finish seventh in the field 

2023 Cross Country

• Competed in six meets for the Golden Eagles as a junior
• Opened her season with her best individual placement of the year, taking eighth overall at the Fisher Women's Invite with a 5K time of 20:00.9 (9/1)
• Followed that up with a 15th place finish at the Bethany Invitational, finishing the 6K with a time of 24:23.8 (9/9)
• Posted the best 6K time of her career at the LHU Invitational/Open, finishing in 23:24.4 (9/23)
• Took 42nd at the PSAC Championships with a 6K time of 24:52.2 (10/21)

2022-23
2022 Cross Country

• Ran the best 6K of her college career with a time of 23:46.4 at the LHU Invitational/Open (9/24)
• Placed 14th in the field at the Bill Lennox Invitational (10/22)
• Was the top finisher for the Golden Eagles at the 2022 PSAC Championships, placing 27th in the field with a time of 23:51.4 (11/5)

2022-23 Indoor

• Kicked off her season with a new PR in the indoor 5000m, taking sixth at the YSU Indoor Icebreaker with a time of 18:49.09 (12/2)
• Placed fourth in the 3000m at the Mount Union Wuske Open (2/4)
• Qualified for the PSAC Championships in the 5000m, taking 15th (2/25-26)

2023 Outdoor

• Placed fourth in the 10,000m at the Myrtle Beach Collegiate Challenge with a time of 41:11.64 (3/10-11)
• Took fourth in the 3000m at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational (3/24-25)
• Won the 10,000m at the Westminster Invitational with a time of 39:40.71 (4/8)
• Came up just one spot short of scoring in the 10,000m at the PSAC Outdoor Championships, placing ninth with a PR of 39:38.81 (5/10)

2021-22: 2021 Cross Country - Made her collegiate cross country debut at the Fisher Invite, placing ninth with a time of 20:24.8 (9/3)... set a 6K PR with a time of 24:37.3 at the LHU Open (9/25)... competed at her first career PSAC Championship, finishing in 26:41.9 (10/22). 2021-22 Indoor - Competed in her first career indoor event at the YSU Icebreaker, competing in the 3000m (12/3)... ran her best 3000m of the season at the YSU College Invitational, finishing in 11:35.44 (1/21)... placed seventh in the 5000m at the Mid-Feb (2/11)... took fourth in the 3000m at the Edinboro Invitational (2/18). 2022 Outdoor - Competed in her first career outdoor track & field event at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational (3/25)... took sixth in the 3000m at the Elliston Earlybird (4/8)... won the 10,000m at the Tomcat Invitational with a time of 40:59.55 (4/16)... PRed in the 1500m at the Benson/Hodge Memorial Invitational with an eighth-place finish of 5:20.10 (4/22)... qualified for the PSAC Outdoor Championships in the 10,000m, taking 12th with a time of 40:59.37 (5/12-14).

High School: Four-sport athlete that lettered in cross country, track & field, basketball, and swimming...  part of NWCC runner-up track & field team in 2019... helped Elgin to back-to-back NWCC championships in basketball (2018-19)... two-time NWCC champion and runner of the year in cross country, earning the honors in 2017 and 2018... three-time first team all-conference selection in cross country (2017-18, 2020)... 2017 first team all-district selection in cross country... two-time NWCC Champion in the 3200m in track & field (2018-19)... two-time first team all-conference selection in track & field (2018-19)... 2021 all-district selection in track & field... member of the National Honor Society... recipient of the Honors diploma... played guard on the basketball team... swam the 50 Free and 100 Free.

Personal: Full name is Allison Elizabeth Farson... Biology major... daughter of Angela and Eric Farson... has a brother, Josh.

Indoor PRs (Last updated 6/15/23)

3000m	11:15.88	1/27-28/23
5000m	18:49.09	12/2/22

Outdoor PRs (Last updated 6/15/23)

1500m	5:20.10	4/22/22
3000m	11:09.66	4/29/23
5000m	19:40.46	4/30/22
10,000m	39:38.81	5/10/23