Newsletter: July 19, 2024
Contents Competition Calendar Coach's Corner: Road Mile Season Spotlight: USATF 8k Championships, Sunset Tour, & Raspberry Run Mile In My...
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Dakotah Popehn
Residence: Hopkins, MN
Date of birth: 5/1/1995
Hometown: St. Francis, Minnesota
Occupation: Runner for Puma
College: Northern State University – Aberdeen, SD B.S. in Biology – December 2017
Favorite Pre-Race Meal: Nothing quirky, bagel, cream cheese.
Favorite Pump-Up Song: Orinoco Flow
Funniest Mid-Race Thought: There’s plenty of other less painful ways to make a living.
Personal Bests
3,000m
5,000m
5k Road
8k Road
10,000m
10k Road
15k Road
10 Mile
20k
Half Marathon
25k
Marathon
9:27
16:02.16
16:01
27:45
34:57
31:58
49:20
52:57
1:06:02
1:08:04
1:23:06
2:24:40
Achievements
2024 - Paris Olympic Marathon 12th
2024 - Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon 2nd
2024 - NYRR Mini 10k 8th
2024 - USATF 25k Championship 3rd
2024 - USA Olympic Team Trials - Marathon 3rd
2023 - UA NYC Half Marathon 6th
2023 - USATF 15k Championship 4th
2022 - USATF 20k Championships 9th
2022 - Grandma's Marathon - 1st Place
2022 - USATF 25k Championships - 3rd
2021 - USATF Half Marathon
Championships - 3rd
2021 - Grandma's Marathon - 1st Place
2021 - USATF 20k Championships - 8th
2019 - USATF 25k Championships - 5th
2017 - NCAA DII Outdoor Championships 10,000m - 6th
Dakotah is a 2013 graduate of St. Francis High School in Minnesota where she competed in track and cross country. She was also the goaltender for the combined St. Francis/North Branch high school girls hockey team.
At Northern State, Dakotah was on the cross country and track teams for the Wolves. She was a five-time DII National Qualifier, a 2017 DII 10,000m First Team All-American (finishing sixth in the National Championships), and was a 2017 DII Cross Country Second Team All-American (34th in the National Championships).
After completing her collegiate running career in the fall of 2017, Dakotah has focused on becoming a professional runner with the goal of competing in the marathon. In the spring of 2018, she won the USATF Minnesota 8k Championship, she was first at the Women Run the Cities 10 Mile in Minneapolis, and made her debut in the half marathon at the Garry Bjorklund Half in Duluth with a time of 1:16:16.
Dakotah joined Minnesota Distance Elite in September 2018.
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