Career: Two-time All-American, earning honors in both the 5-km freestyle and 15-km classical at the 2015 NCAA Championships ... three-time NCAA qualifier (served as an alternate in 2016 due to team limits) ... 13 career top-10 finishes ... best career finish third in the 10-km classic at the Pat Miller Invite in 2014.
2017: Competed in four races with a season-best finish 32nd in the 5-km freestyle at the Montana State Invite.
2016: Qualified for the NCAA Championships, serving as an alternate due to team limits … best finish of the season 13th in the 10-km classical at the Utah Invitational … five top-20 finishes.
2015: Earned All-America honors in both the 5-km freestyle and 15-km classical races at the NCAA Championships, finishing ninth in the free and 10th in the classic ... finished in the top 10 nine times ... finished a season-high sixth three times: the 5-km classic and 5-km free at the Alaska Invite in the 5-km free at New Mexico ... eighth in the 5-km free and ninth in the 15-km free at the RMISA Championship ... named to the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team.
2014: Represented Utah at the NCAA Championships, finishing 21st in the 15-km freestyle and 35th in the 5-km classical ... second-team All-RMISA ... finished on the podium with a third-place run in the 10-km classic at the Pat Miller Invite with a sixth-place run in the 20-km free ... fourth in the 10-km free at the Montana State Invite ... four top-10 finishes ... 10th in the 5-km classic at the RMISA Championship ... named to the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team.
Before Utah: Third place in the skate sprint at the 2010 German National Championships ... second overall in German Cup in 2010 ... several top three positions in German Cup from 2010-13 ... fourth and fifth in skate 5k/skiathlon at German National Championship in 2013 ... SCMK Hirschau Ski Club.
Personal: Daughter of Michaela and Christoph Heynen ... two brothers ... majoring in business administration.