Academic Notes: Big Sky All-Academic honoree in 2013 ... Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete ... Majoring in marketing and management.
Personal Bests: 8.68 60mH, 14.37 100mH, 19-4.25 (5.90m) Long Jump, 5-5 (1.65m) High Jump 4974 points Heptathlon 3689 points Pentathlon
2014: 2014: Had a tremendous sophomore campaign to help the Lumberjack women... PR'd in the 60h, high jump and long jump during the pentathlon at the Big Sky Indoor Championships... Finished third in the heptathlon with 3689 points after coming into the event ranked 11th... Her time of 8.68 in the 60h is tied for second-best in school history... Mirroring her indoor performance, Childs took home the bronze medal in the heptathlon with a career-best 4974 points at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships... Helped the women's 4x100 team to a fourth place finish at the conference championships...
2013: Opened up her first indoor season in the 60-meter hurdles with her season-best time of 8.92 at the Mountain T's Invitational ... Notched indoor best in the long jump at the same meet with a mark of 17-3.25 (5.26m) ... Finished 12th in 55-meter hurdle prelims at Big Sky Indoors with a time of 8.40 ... Steadily improved throughout her first outdoor season, finding career-bests in the last regular season meet and the Big Sky Championships across the board ... Lifetime best in the 100-meter hurdles (14.37) came at the Double Dual ... Improved her career-best heptathlon score by nearly 500 points to take fifth at Big Sky Outdoors (4651), a score that included PRs in the high jump (5-2.5/1.59m), shot put (30-11.25/9.43m), 200m (26.04), and javelin (84-1/25.63m) ... Also scored in the long jump at the meet with a career-best of 18-6.5 (5.65m), placing seventh ... Earned first All-Big Sky award with a bronze medal as part of the 4x100-meter relay that ran the second-fastest time in school history (46.08).
High School: Competed three years at Mountain View High School and one year at Capital High School, where she graduated in 2012 ... Broke the 100-meter hurdle record formerly held for 20 years by her mother at the 2012 Idaho State Track & Field Championships, snagging the individual title in the process ... Holds Capital High records in the 100m hurdles, long jump, and 4x100-meter relay ... Competed at the 2011 USATF Junior Olympics as part of the YMCA Team Idaho club squad, placing eighth overall in the Young Women's heptathlon with 4243 points and earning All-America honors.
Personal: Born on December 14, 1993 in Davenport, Iowa ... Daughter of Karla Childs and Chris Childs ... Has an older brother, Jesse, and an older sister, Jenne ... Enjoys sewing and fashion design in her spare time ... Chose NAU for Flagstaff's similarity to Boise and from getting to know the team through her sister, who competed for NAU Track and Field from 2009-12 ... Other athletes in her family include brother Jesse, who played college basketball for Mesa Community College, Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Fresno Pacific, mother Karla, a hurdler in the 1980s at Boise State, and father Chris, who played professional basketball for the New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets, and Toronto Raptors ... Grandfather is Ed Jacoby, NAU assistant coach for jumps and hurdles.
