 In her last race of 2012 she won the Zatopek Classic 10,000-meter run on her debut for the distance.Fifth place at the 2013 USA Cross Country Championships gained her a spot on the senior national team.At the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships she emerged as a top level runner by finishing 13th – this was the best performance by a non-African-born runner at the competition, narrowly ahead of European champion Fionnuala McCormack.