2025-26 Track & Field Roster
Eva Rinker
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Waynesville, N.C.
- High School:
- Tuscola High School
2023-24 (Fr.)
Indoor Season- Ran for a personal best time of 2:15.54 in the 800 meters at the Sykes and Sabock Challenge
- Finished third in the 3,000 meters at the YSU Collegiate Invitational
- Collected a season best time of 2:16.82 in the 800 meters at the Mountaineer Twilight, claiming fourth place
- Finished third in the 800 meters at the Stan Romanoski Open
- Ran for a personal best time of 4:41.18 in the 1,500 meters at the Dalton Ebanks Invitational
High School
- Ran at Tuscola High School for coach Kevin Fitzgerald
- Three-year cross country and outdoor track captain
- Two-year indoor track captain
- All-Conference Cross Country (2020, 2021, 2022)
- All-Region Cross Country (2021, 2022)
- Cross Country State Qualifier (2020, 2021, 2022)
- All-WNC First Team (2021)
- All-WNC Second Team (2022)
- Cross Country MVP (2020, 2021, 2022)
- All-State Indoor Track (2023)
- Third place state medalist in the indoor 1600m (2023)
- All-Conference Outdoor Track (2022, 2023)
- All-Region Outdoor Track (2022, 2023)
- Conference Outdoor Track Most Valuable Runner (2023)
- Conference Champion 4x800m, 4x400m, 1600m, 800m (2022)
- Conference Champion 800m, 1600m, 3200m (2023)
- 800-meter Regional Champion (2022)
- 800-meter, 1600-meter Regional Champion (2023)
- Outdoor Track State Qualifier (2021, 2022, 2023)
- Third place State medalist in the outdoor 800m (2022, 2023)
- Outdoor 1600-meter State Champion (2023)
- Outdoor track MVP (2022, 2023)
- All-WNC outdoor track First-Team (2023)
Personal
- Daughter of Jerimy and Joanne Rinker
- Has one sister
- Birthday is May 12
- Majoring in exercise physiology
- Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll
T&F: DMR Team Big 12 Championship Post-Race Interview
Saturday, March 01
Petal Palmer - 2024 Wilma Rudolph Award Recipient
Monday, June 10
A Conversation with Wren Baker
Monday, December 05
Life as a Mountaineer - Haley Jackson
Monday, May 16
