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Amanda Bell Class: Senior Hometown: Clarksville, Ind. High School: Clarksville Last College: Indiana Height: 5-8 Event: Distance Birthdate: 08/07/1981

One of Cardinals' top distance runners ... Won 2003 Madison Courier 10K run for fourth consecutive year ... Transferred from Indiana University prior to last season.

2003 Cross Country: Cardinals' No. 1 runner all season ... Had six top-10 finishes in seven events ... Placed runner-up at Saluki Invitational and Evansville Invitational ... Led Cardinals with 27th-place effort at Conference USA Championship ... One of three captains.

2002-03: Recorded team-best indoor and outdoor times in 3000m ... Placed fourth in 3000m at Saluki Fast Start with indoor-best time of 10:32.19 ... Ran season-best 3000m outdoor time of 10:31.04 at Indy Relays ... Redshirted during cross country season ... Named to Conference USA Commissioner's and Fall Athletic Director's Honor Rolls.

2001 Cross Country (IU): Top Indiana finisher at NCAA Great Lakes Regional with a 6K time of 22:03.0 to place 34th overall.

2000 Cross Country (IU): IU's top finisher in four of six races ... Earned Big Ten Athlete of the Week honors after winning Indiana Intercollegiates ... Ran season-best 5K time of 17:44 at Notre Dame ... Finished 32nd at Big Ten Championship ... Injury kept her out of NCAA regional race ... Named Academic All-Big Ten.

1999 Cross Country (IU): Hoosiers' top runner in all seven races ... Earned All-Big Ten honors after placing sixth at Big Ten Championship, the best by a Hoosier since 1990 ... Finished 15th at NCAA Regional meet ... Won three races.

High School: Lettered four years in track and cross country at Clarksville High School ... Won Indiana state cross country championship as a senior ... Placed second at the 1998 Mideast Meet of Champions ... Two-time mile state champion.

Personal: Born Amanda Jo Bell on August 7, 1981 in Jeffersonville, Ind. ... Daughter of Robert and Shirley Bell ... Pursuing a master's degree in exercise physiology ... Earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology in 2002 from Indiana ... Post-college ambition is to become a professor ... Person with the greatest influence on her athletic career is Darrell Kingery, coach at Clarksville High School ... Most prized possession is her dog, Cinnamon ... Looks to her family for inspiration ... Likes to read mystery and adventure books in her spare time ... Person she'd most like to meet is Sir Edmond Hillary, the first person to summit Mt. Everest ... Most impressive person she's met is Jackie Joyner Kersee ... Favorite movie is Ace Ventura When Nature Calls ... Favorite TV show is Will and Grace ... Favorite group is Coldplay ... Favorite food is chips and queso ... Three people she'd like to have dinner with are Bobby Knight, Jim Thorpe and Angelina Jolie ... Would like to go to Mt. Everest one day and do physiological measurements on the climbers who summit the mountain.