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2010-11 Women's Track and Field Roster

Emily Anderson

  • Position D
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Golf, Ill.
  • High School Glenbrook South

Biography

Indoor Mark Date
800m 2:16.02 12/3/06
3,000m 9:26.33 3/9/08
5,000m 16:03.15 3/13/09
Mile 4:43.33 2/23/08
Outdoor Mark Date
800m 2:12.52 3/29/08
1,500m 4:14.73 6/13/08
3,000m 9:33.32 5/19/08
5,000m 16:08.18 5/29/09

2009-10
Cross Country: CAA Athlete of the Year ... Repeated as the CAA Champion ... Also repeated as the CAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... All-Region for the second time, finishing 17th at the Southeast Regional ... All-East, taking fourth at the ECAC Championships ... Also ran at the Cowboy Jamboree, Colonial Inter-Regional Challenge, and Pre-National Invitational.
Indoor: Redshirted.
Outdoor: Redshirted ... Named in February to the CAA 25th Anniversary Track and Field team.

2008-09
Cross Country: CAA Champion ... CAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Fourth at the Colonial Inter-Regional ... Led W&M at the Pre-National Invitational ... Fourth for the Tribe at the Southeast Regional.
Indoor: All-American ... Ninth at the NCAA Championships in the 5,000m ... Ran 16:03.15 in just her second 5,000m race, the fastest time ever at W&M ... Automatic qualifier to the national meet after running 16:08.49 in her 5,000m debut ... Provisional qualifier in both the mile (4:43.50) and 3,000m (9:29.01).
Outdoor: All-American ... CAA Athlete of the Year ... USTFCCCA All-Academic ... Track Athlete of the Meet at the CAA Championships ... Finished ninth in the 5,000m at the NCAA Championships for All-American accolades ... Third at the NCAA East Regional with an outdoor-best of 16:08.18 at 5,000m ... Became the first woman and just second athlete ever to win both the 1,500m and 5,000m titles at the CAA Championships ... Broke the meet record in the 5,000m with an easy run of 16:40.99 ... All-East, timing 4:23.15 for third place in the 1,500m at the ECAC Championships.

2007-08
Cross Country:
Led the Tribe to the silver medal at the ECAC Championships, placing fourth individually for All-East honors ... Earned All-Southeast Region accolades after finishing 20th at the region championships ... All-conference after finishing seventh at the CAA Championships ... Led the Tribe at the Pre-National Invitational, placing 66th ... Seventh at the Colonial Inter-Regional ... Tenth at the Lou Onesty Invitational ... Named All-Academic by the USTFCCCA. Track: CAA Athlete of the Year ... Named All-American after running a personal best 4:14.73 and finishing fifth at the NCAA Championships in the 1,500m ... Semi-finalist at the Olympic Trials in the 1,500m ... Finished fourth at the NCAA East Regional in the 1,500m ... ECAC Champion at both the indoor and outdoor 3,000m run ... First time that has been accomplished in W&M history ... NCAA Provisional Qualifier indoors after breaking the school indoor mile record with a time of 4:43.33 at the Virginia Tech Challenge ... Broke Emily Furia’s indoor record by three seconds ... Member of the Colonial Relays Distance Medley Relay championship team ... Set a personal best of 2:12.52 in the 800m at the Fred Hardy Invitational ... Cleared the NCAA provisional-qualifying barrier ... Broke the NCAA provisional-qualifying standard indoors in the 3,000m at the Vince Brown Invitational, timing 9:27.88 ... Time ranks fourth all-time at the College ... Race was her first collegiate track effort longer than the mile ... Broke the facility record set by Coach Newberry four years earlier ... Ran the mile leg of the DMR that won at North Carolina in an ECAC-qualifying time of 11:48.36 ... Ran third on the school-record and ECAC-qualifying 4x400m relay at Virginia Tech.

2006-07
Cross Country:
Seventh at the Cavalier Open ... Eighteenth at the Tribe Open ... Ran at the Lou Onesty Invitational and the Colonial Inter-Regional. Track: CAA Champion at 1,500m ... Her win was the fourth for W&M at 1,500m in the past five years, and the third time in that span a freshman had won ... At the Colonial Relays, ran the team’s season-best time of 4:31.26 to take 12th place ... Performance ranks ninth all-time at the College ... Her time qualified her for the ECAC Championships and the USAT&F Junior Nationals ... 28th at the NCAA East Regional in 4:33.53, the third-fastest time on the team ... All-East indoors as part of the fifth-place 4x800m relay ... Ran the anchor leg of the 4x800m at the Penn Relays, bringing the team into a seventh-place finish in the College Division (9:02.16) ... Broke the Christopher Newport indoor facility record in the mile in her first collegiate race, running 5:06.79 to win the mile at the CNU Holiday Open ... Runner-up at 800m at the Tribe Invitational in 2:13.87 ... Ran 2:16.02 in the 800m at the CNU Holiday Open to set the College’s indoor freshman record ... Ran the lead-off leg of the 4x1,500m relay team that took 12th in the Championship of America at the Penn Relays.

At Glenbrook South
Third in the state at 800m as a sophomore ... Also earned all-state honors in the 800m as a junior, taking sixth ... All-conference in track and cross country all four years ... Qualified for the state crosss country championships in 2003 and 2005 ... MVP of cross country and track her last three years ... Member of the choir and junior class board.

Personal
Daughter of Kenneth and Mary Anderson ... As a freshman at Glenbrook, wanted to quit track for the badminton team.

Historical Player Information

  • 2007-08Sophomore

    Middle Distance
  • 2008-09Junior

    Middle Distance
  • 2009-10Senior

    Distance
  • 2010-11Redshirt Senior

    Distance