Hope enters her first season with the CSU women's cross country team...Graduated from Smiths Station High...Competed for three years in high school...Was All-American.

Personal: Daughter of David and Dawn Ard...Favorite food is steak...Favorite movie is Gone Baby Gone...Enjoys reading in her spare time...Never has but would love to go skydiving one day...Lists her father as having the most influence on her life...Lists Coach Evilsizer as her role model in sports.