Second-year runner who begins her first season running cross country and her first full season with the Owl track team...battled shin split injury all season, but participated in the Smith College and Harvard Classic last winter and ran the 200 and 400-meter races, and 4x400 relay at the outdoor Trinity College Bantam Invitational...Before KSC: a three-sport athlete at Mount Desert Island (Me.) High where she served as senior captain of basketball and softball teams....a two-year member of school's soccer team....Tia is a health, promotion and fitness, major.