Background
However, she was only the 19th best qualifier, well behind Anne Saint Geme (daughter of American Junior 3,000 meters record holder Ceci Hopp).
However, she was only the 19th best qualifier, well behind Anne Saint Geme (daughter of American Junior 3,000 meters record holder Ceci Hopp).
Running for Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California, Conley was not even the best on her team, that position being held by Sara Bei, the CIF California State Meet Champion at 3200 meters during her freshman year. By her senior year, she managed to get to the State Meet, qualifying in both the 3,200 meters and the 1600 meters, but foregoing the longer race to try to make the final in the 1,600 meters. However, she was only the 19th best qualifier, well behind Anne Saint Geme (daughter of American Junior 3,000 meters record holder Ceci Hopp).
Conley ran track and cross country at University of California Davis and was a volunteer assistant coach for the Aggies through 2014.
She was the 2004 Division I Independent cross country champion in 17:07 as a freshman, then added her second All Division I Independent honor by placing seventh the following year as a sophomore.
In 2008, Conley helped make program history by becoming the first University of California Davis Aggie to qualify for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
She earned All-West Region with her 12th-place showing at the regional, earning her the berth at the national meet. Conley earned all-conference or equivalent honors three times.
Conley captured All Big West Conference accolades with a seventh-place showing. Conley was University of California Davis" top runner in all 4 meets as a freshman, all 7 meets as a sophomore, all 5 meets as a junior, and every meet as a senior.
Conley"s time of 16:17.51 set at the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association Track and Field West Regional in the 5,000 meters stands as a school record and her mark of 4:22.17 in the 1,500 meters currently ranks her Number.
2 on University of California Davis" all-time ledger.
Conley is ninth in the University of California Davis outdoor 800 meters (2:1073) and the University of California Davis outdoor 3,000 meters (9:4585) lists and owns the University of California Davis indoor 3,000 meters record with a time of 9:19.16.
During the race Julia Lucas pushed the pace, but Lucas faded at the end of the race. Conley passed Lucas in the final meter, where she defeated Lucas by 4/100ths of a second and surpassed the "A" standard by 21/100ths of a second. Conley ran 15:14.48 for the semifinals of the Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women"s 5000 metres.
2013 United States of America Outdoor Track and Field Championships 5000m on 23 June 2013.
4th place; 15:37.80 Conley qualified for the in Athletics. IAAF World Championships 5000m final on 17 August 2013.
12th place. 15:36.58 IAAF World Championships 5000m prelim on 14 August 2013.
5th place; 15:27.35 After pushing the pace for the last 8 laps, Conley was passed in the last 200 meters by Jordan Hasay. Kim Conley placed 2nd in 1:15:41 on October 26, 2014 at Healdsburg Wine Country Half Marathon.
Kim Conley on December 6th, 2015 ran 31:58.54 at Hornet Stadium (Sacramento), Sacramento State University to meet the 2016 Olympic Standard. She ran 15:09 at the UW Invite 5K for her 5000m olympic standard.