Biography
AWARDS
2014 Sun Belt Champion and Runner of the Year..Was All-Sun Belt first-team in 2014 in cross country to finish career with four consecutive all-conference seasons (the final three as a first-team honoree)...2011 CAA co-Rookie of the Year...2011 All-CAA in cross country...Won five CAA Cross Country Runner-of-the-Week awards during 2011, a single-season school record...Won two Sun Belt Runner-of-the-Week awards during the 2013 season (Sept. 16 and 23)...Completed her cross country career with six first-place finishes...In track, was third-team All-Sun Belt at Indoor Championships in 5,000m.
ACADEMICS
• Spring 2016 Dean's List
• Spring 2015 Athletic Director’s Honor Roll
• Spring 2014 Athletic Director’s Honor Roll
• Fall 2013 Athletic Director’s Honor Roll
OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2015
Struggled with injury all spring...Best 5,000m was a 17:14.36 at Raleigh Relays...Hobbled through Sun Belt Championships to finish 20th in 18:33.58...Unable to run 10,000m all spring....Ran 1,500m with a best of 4:34.91 in finishing fourth at USF Bulls Invite and won at JSU Quad Opener in 4:38.82...Also ran a 2:22.88 in 800m at JSU Quad Opener.
INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2015
Earned all-conference with third-place finish in 5,000m run (17:04.28) at Sun Belt Championships...Won that event at UAB in 17:35.02...Finished fourth at Sun Belt Indoor Championships in the 3,000m (9:51.85) with season-best time of 9:50.61 at Ohio SPIRE meet...Also ran mile race and finished second at both ETSU and UAB in 5:01.42 and 5:01.82, respectively...
CROSS COUNTRY 2014
Won the Sun Belt Conference championship race with a clocking of 16:57.5 in Mobile, Ala...Named Sun Belt Runner of the Year as a result and first-team All-Sun Belt...Won the JSU Foothills Invitational Meet in Oxford, Ala. in 17:26.5...Was fourth at the WCU Invite and the Winthrop Invite, while having a fifth-place finish at the Chattanooga Invite to lead the team to a perfect 8-0 mark in the duals only meet...Finished with personal-best 35th place at the NCAA South Regional in Tallahassee, Fla. with a 6k time of 20:40.50.
OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2014
Finished fourth at the Sun Belt Outdoor Championships in both the 5,000m (17:41.98) and the 10,000m (36:47.18) as both times were personal-best clockings outdoors...The 36:47 was the third-best time in school history...Had a personal-best outdoor 17:10.06 in the 5,000m at the Florida Relays...Had personal best in the 1,500m with a 4:38.11 to win at USF and a personal best of 5:05.16 in the mile to finish fourth at Furman.
INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2014
Finished fourth at the Sun Belt Indoor Championships in the 3,000m run with a personal-best time of 9:46.39 that was the second-fastest clocking in school history...Had a personal-best time in the 5,000m run at the Samford Invite with a time of 17:10.00 that marked the fourth-fastest time in school history...Was fifth at the Sun Belt Championships in the 5,000m in 17:11.77.
CROSS COUNTRY 2013
Repeated as an All-Sun Belt first-team honoree by placing third at the Sun Belt meet at Troy in time of 18:00.5...Won two races: the 4K JSU/Struts Invitational and the Coach “O” Classic...Lowered her personal best times in the 4K (14:40.19 in GSU Invitational), 5K (17:46.38 in the Crimson Classic) and 6K (21:16.61 in the NCAA South Region)...Had five top-10 finishes...Solid 13th-place finish among 210 runners at Crimson Classic...Finished 12th among 210 runners at Furman Classic...Was 33rd among 288 runers (24th among Division I) at Louisville Classic...Improved to 45th of 194 runners at NCAA South Regional.
OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2013
Competed in the 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m during the season...Finished eighth in the 10,000m at the Sun Belt Championships to score a point for the team...Also placed 12th in the 5K at the conference meet...Finished third in the 3,000m at the Samford Invite...Recorded four top-10 finishes in these events during the season...Named to the Athletic Director’s honor roll during the spring semester.
INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2013
Competed in the mile, 3,000m and 5,000m for the Panthers...Placed eighth in the 3,000m at the Sun Belt Championships to score for GSU...Ran a season-best 3,000m time of 10:07.21 at the Samford Invite...Top time in the 5,000m came at the UAB Blazer Invite, where she ran 17:57.50 to finish second...Also a member of the distance medley relay team.
CROSS COUNTRY 2012
Named to the All-Sun Belt first team after finishing fifth overall at the conference meet...Second finisher for the Sun Belt champion team...Time of 18:12.7 at the championship race was a 5K personal best...Recorded five top-10 finishes during the season, including third-place finishes at the GSU Invite, West Georgia Invite and Jaguar Invite...Closed the season with a 6K personal-best time of 21:18.3 at the NCAA South Region meet...Competed in all eight meets for the Panthers.
OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2012
Came in seventh in the 1,500m in a time of 4:46.28 at the Southern Invitational...Finished fifth in the Georgia Intercollegiate 5,000m race with a time of 17:44.96...Ran 4:50.98 in the 1,500m at the UGA Relays...Won the 5,000m race at the Yellow Jacket Invite by running a PR of 17:40.50...At the Mississppi Open, ran a 4:45.22 in the 1,500m race...Fifth-place finisher in the invitational heat of the 5,000m at the War Eagle Invite, running 17:40.59...Finished fourth in the 5,000m at the CAA Championships to contribute five points to a third-place team finish by the women.
INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2012
Finished eighth in the mile at the UAB Blazer Invite with a time of 5:22.70...Posted a time of 5:13.04 in the mile at the Birmingham Invitational...Placed eighth in the 3,000m at the Vulcan Invite with a time of 10:07.33...Finished sixth in the mile with a time of 5:24.46 at the Sewanee Invite.
CROSS COUNTRY 2011
Named CAA co-Rookie of the Year and earned All-CAA honors...Panthers top finisher in every meet as a freshman...In her first collegiate meet, finished in sixth place at the UGA Invite with a time of 18:13.95...Following the UGA meet, was named the CAA Runnner of the Week for the week ending Sept. 7...Led the Panthers to a team victory at the Auburn Invitational, again finishing sixth after running the 4K course in a time of 14:57.9...Won the GSU Invite with a 6K time of 22:23...Recorded a personal-best 6K time of 22:13 at the Paul Short Run, finishing 104th overall to lead the team...Earned another individual title at the Jaguar Invitational, setting a 6K course record of 23:07.4...Won her third individual title of the season by running 18:49.91 at the Coach “O” Invite...Placed ninth at the CAA Championships with a time of 22:50...First GSU finisher at the NCAA South Region meet, came in 48th place overall with a personal best time of 22:00.8.
PREP
Attended Grandview Heights High School in Grandview Heights, Ohio…Coached by Brian Schoch and Jon Wilhelm…Qualified for the state cross country meet all four years in high school…All-state first team in both track and cross country as sophomore, junior and senior years…Took third place in the 2010 state cross country championship meet after placing fifth in the 2009 meet…Finished fifth in the 2011 state track and field championship 3,200 meter race after finishing second in the same event the previous year…Helped Grandview Heights to consecutive district track and field championships in 2010 and 2011…Graduated in Spring 2011 with honors.
PERSONAL
Hannah Patricia Stefanoff was born May 25, 1993 in Dayton, Ohio...Parents are James and Monica Stefanoff…Has an older brother, Adam, and two younger sisters: Emma and Olivia…Majoring in biological science, earning multiple A.D. Honor Roll recognitions, and is on course to graduate in December 2015....Team rep for Georgia State Student-Athlete Advisory Council...Was GSU nominee for 2015 Sun Belt Female award, representing all sports.
