{{short description|American distance-runner (born 1989)}} {{Redirect|Alex Kosinski|the United States judge|Alex Kozinski}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name = Alex Kosinski |image = JordanHasay-AlexKosinski.jpg |imagesize = |caption = Kosinski (left) racing Jordan Hasay in 2007 | sport = Track, Long-distance running | event = 5000 meters | nationality = American |alias = |club = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|3|29}} |birth_place = Santa Cruz, California{{fact|date=March 2025}} |collegeteam = Oregon |height = |weight = |turnedpro = |retired = |pb = '''800 meters''': 2:07.45<ref name="All-Athletics">{{cite web|url=http://www.all-athletics.com/node/161089|author=All-Athletics|title=Profile of Alex Kosinski|access-date=2014-11-30|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041413/http://www.all-athletics.com/node/161089|url-status=dead}}</ref> <br> '''1500 meters''': 4:15.67<ref name="All-Athletics"/> <br> '''5000 meters''': 15:36.90<ref name="All-Athletics"/> |olympics = |worlds = |highestranking = |coaching = |updated = |medaltemplates = }} '''Alexandra Kosinski''' (born March 29, 1989) is an American distance-runner. She broke the U.S. high school girl's national record for the 1600 meters in 2007.<ref name="PAUSATF">{{cite web|url=http://www.pausatf.org/data/2007/Kosinski2.pdf|author=Lumsdaine, Silver|title=Athlete Profile: Alex Kosinski}}</ref> She went on to attend and run with University of Oregon in cross country and track.
==Running career==
===High school=== Kosinski attended and ran with Oak Ridge High School from El Dorado Hills, California. She and another Californian high schooler, Jordan Hasay, were two of the fastest high school women in the state and frequently raced each other before they would both go to University of Oregon.
===Collegiate=== Kosinski attended University of Oregon with an athletic scholarship. She majored in Sociology and maintained a 3.83 GPA while in college.<ref name="OregonC">{{cite web|url=http://champions.uoregon.edu/kosinski-excels-track-and-classroom |title=Kosinski excels on the track and in the classroom |date=February 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529011353/https://champions.uoregon.edu/kosinski-excels-track-and-classroom |archivedate=May 29, 2014 }}</ref> On January 29, 2011, she set the school's record for the indoor 5000 meter at 15:44.60.<ref name="Oregon">{{cite web|url=http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=3645736|author=Oregon Ducks Athletics|title=Alexandra Kosinski}}</ref> Kosinski placed third in 2011 and placed eighth in the women's 5000 meter finals at the 2012 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kosinki, Alexandra}} Category:Oregon Ducks women's track and field athletes Category:Living people Category:1989 births Category:Sportspeople from El Dorado Hills, California Category:American women middle-distance runners Category:American women long-distance runners Category:Track and field athletes from California Category:Oregon Ducks women's cross country runners Category:21st-century American women