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2010-11 Women's Track and Field Roster

Betsy Graney

  • Position MD
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Harper Woods, Mich.
  • High School Grosse Pointe North

Biography

Indoor Mark Date
800m 2:20.81 2/1/08
3,000m 9:44.27 2/19/10
Mile 4:55.12 1/29/11
Outdoor Mark Date
1,500m 4:38.77 4/19/08
3,000m Steeplechase 10:15.99 5/15/09

2009-10
Cross Country: Ran for the Tribe at the CAA Championships and Southeast Regional ... Finished 14th and 45th, respectively ... Also competed at the Pre-National Invitational and at the Cowboy Jamboree.
Indoor: Qualified for the ECAC Championships at 3,000m ... Finished second in the race at Virginia Tech, coming through the line in 9:44.27 ... Won the mile at Liberty.
Outdoor: Redshirted ... Winner of the Martha Barksdale Scholarship.

2008-09
Cross Country: All-East, finishing 10th at the ECAC Championships ... Named all-conference after taking sixth at the CAA Championships ... Just missed all-region honors, finishing 30th at the Southeast Regional.
Indoor: Did not compete.
Outdoor: USTFCCCA All-Academic ... Named second-team Academic All-District by CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine ... NCAA qualifier in the 3,000m steeplechase ... Finished 24th at the national championships ... Fifth at both the NCAA East Regional and ECAC Championships, earning all-region and All-East honors, respectively ... Ran 10:15.99 at the ECAC Championships to smash her own personal-best by nearly 16 seconds, the school record by eight seconds, and to provisionally qualify for the U.S. Senior Championships ... Ran 10:22.86 at the regional, giving her the top two performances in W&M history ... Won the CAA title in the steeplechase ... Defended her Colonial Relays crown ... Ran 4:39.12 for 1,500m at North Carolina in May ... Ninth in the 1,500m at the CAA meet.

2007-08
Cross Country:
Twenty-seventh at the CAA Championships ... Fifty-eighth in the Pre-Nationals open race ... Twenty-ninth at the Colonial Inter-Regional ... Tenth at the Cavalier Open ... Eighteenth at the Lou Onesty Invitational. Track: CAA Rookie of the Year ... Runner-up in the 3,000m steeplechase at the USA Junior Championships ... Selected to the US World Junior Team, finishing sixteenth at the IAAF World Junior Championships ... Finished seventh at the NCAA East Regional in the 3,000m steeplechase with a personal best time of 10:31.47 ... Second fastest steeplechaser in W&M history ... Performance was the seventh time she broke the freshmen record ... Finish made her eligible for selection to the NCAA Championships ... Earned All-East recognition after finishing third in the steeplechase at the ECAC Championships ... Earned all-conference honors for her second place finish in the steeplechase at the CAA Championships ... College Champion in the steeplechase at the Penn Relays ... Colonial Relays champion in the steeplechase ... Finished sixth at the CAA Championships in the 1,500m run with a time of 4:38.77 ... Time qualified her for USA Track and Field Junior Championships.

At Grosse Pointe North
Earned three all-state honors in cross country ... Also named academic all-state for three years ... Four-time region champion ... All-conference all four years of high school ... Conference champion as a freshman ... Team was named the Academic State champions in 2005 ... National Honor Society member ... Branch Leader for Women in Leadership Leading our World.

Personal
Daughter of Jerry and Therese Graney ... Enjoys making bagels, stretching, taking pictures, and smiling ... Wants to fly her own plane someday.

Historical Player Information

  • 2008-09Sophomore

    Distance
  • 2009-10Junior

    Middle Distance
  • 2010-11Senior

    Middle Distance