2022 USC Women's Cross Country Roster
Roster
Cairns, Isabelle

Isabelle Cairns
- Height:
- 5-6
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- St. Francis
- Hometown:
- Woodside, Calif.
Bio
THIS YEAR:
Sophomore Isabelle “Issy” Cairns is in her second season as a distance runner on the USC track and field and cross country teams.
2021: Cairns competed in two cross country meets, making her Trojan debut at the Mark Covert Classic on Sept. 4 and posting a time of 19:48.8. (5K). Her only other cross country race and first career 6K was the Pac-12 Championships on Oct. 29 and she had a time of 25:45.7. During the outdoor track seasons, Cairns had a best 800m time of 2:14.87 to win the race at the CSUN Invitational on April 2. She set a 1500m PR of 4:49.53 in placing ninth at the Triton Invitational on April 9.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Cairns is a 2021 graduate of St. Francis High in Mountain View, Calif. She has personal bests of 2:12.83 in the 800m (St. Francis record), 57.02 in the 400m, 18:20.3 in the 5K and 17.44.8 in the three-mile races. Was her school 2021 Track Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year, as well as begin given the Most Valuable Player Award and Most Inspirational Award. She was the 2019 Stanford Invitational 800m champion, winning with a time of 2:12.90. She was an honor roll student all four years, a National Spanish Honors Society member and a National Honor Society member.
PERSONAL:
Isabelle was born on Aug. 20, 2003 in London, England and moved to the U.S. in 2014…Her parents are Paul and Kym Cairns and she has one sibling, Euan…She volunteered over 150 hours of community service work during her four years of high school…She is a Business Administration major at USC and after school would like to work in the sports marketing industry.
Sophomore Isabelle “Issy” Cairns is in her second season as a distance runner on the USC track and field and cross country teams.
2021: Cairns competed in two cross country meets, making her Trojan debut at the Mark Covert Classic on Sept. 4 and posting a time of 19:48.8. (5K). Her only other cross country race and first career 6K was the Pac-12 Championships on Oct. 29 and she had a time of 25:45.7. During the outdoor track seasons, Cairns had a best 800m time of 2:14.87 to win the race at the CSUN Invitational on April 2. She set a 1500m PR of 4:49.53 in placing ninth at the Triton Invitational on April 9.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Cairns is a 2021 graduate of St. Francis High in Mountain View, Calif. She has personal bests of 2:12.83 in the 800m (St. Francis record), 57.02 in the 400m, 18:20.3 in the 5K and 17.44.8 in the three-mile races. Was her school 2021 Track Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year, as well as begin given the Most Valuable Player Award and Most Inspirational Award. She was the 2019 Stanford Invitational 800m champion, winning with a time of 2:12.90. She was an honor roll student all four years, a National Spanish Honors Society member and a National Honor Society member.
PERSONAL:
Isabelle was born on Aug. 20, 2003 in London, England and moved to the U.S. in 2014…Her parents are Paul and Kym Cairns and she has one sibling, Euan…She volunteered over 150 hours of community service work during her four years of high school…She is a Business Administration major at USC and after school would like to work in the sports marketing industry.
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