Sarah Cocco Class: Freshman Hometown: Boulder, Colo. Height: 5-5 Birthdate: 08/17/1988

At USC: Sarah Cocco will begin her first season of running cross country for USC...She is also expected to have a big impact in the spring as an 800m runner for the USC track and field team.

High School: Cocco is a 2007 graduate of Fairview (Colo.) High...She placed third at the 2006 Colorado 5A state cross country championships with a time of 19:11...For her efforts, Cocco was named the 2007 Daily Camera Female Cross Country Runner of the Year...She was selected to the 2006 Rocky Mountain News All-Colorado cross country team...Cocco helped lead Fairview to the 2005 Colorado state cross country championships, finishing 27th with a time of 19:52...Won three races at the Boulder County Championships despite blisters which required her to cut out holes in the back of her running shoes, winning the 3200m (11:07.46), 1600m (5:04.51) and 800m (2:14.13) races and placing second as part of Fairview's 800m medley relay team...Was named the meet's Most Valuable Athlete...Won the girls 1600m race at the Texas Relays with a time of 5:01.85, anchored her team to the 4x800m relay title (9:24.45) and opened for the winning distance medley relay team (12:25.7) to earn the Most Outstanding High School Athlete Award...Set a then PR and a meet record in the 1600m race at Liberty Bell Invitational track meet with a time of 4:52.06, slightly more than two seconds off the state record...Won three individual titles and was part of Fairview's winning 3200m relay team at the Colorado state 5-A Track and Field Championships...Won the 800m race for the second year in a row with a time of 2:08.50, the 1600m with a PR of 4:51.16 and the 3200m with a time of 11:02:66...As a junior, ran the fastest U.S. high school girls regular season 800m time of 2:08.58...Placed third in the 800m race with a time of 2:06.70 at the 2007 U.S.A. Junior Track and Field Championships to qualify for the Pan American Junior Athletic Championships...Ran 2:05.70 in the semi-finals...Battled food poisoning at the Pan American Junior Athletic Championships, but still finished fourth in the 800m race with a time of 2:08.45.

Personal: Grew up in San Francisco...At the age of five she was offered the part of Claudia in the 1994 movie "Interview with the Vampire," but her mother made her turn it down due to her age and the violence in the movie, and the part ultimately went to Kirsten Dunst...Wants to become an actress and will study theatre will at USC.