2016 Women's Cross Country Roster

Liz Wedekind

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Yardley, Pa.
  • Height 5-4
  • High School Pennsbury
  • Major Business Administration

Biography

TFRRS Profile

AWARDS & HONORS

2016 // Senior

-All-Landmark Conference Second Team

2015 // Junior
-USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
-All-Landmark Conference Second Team

2014 // Sophomore
-USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

2013 // Freshman
-USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
-All-Middle Atlantic Conference Second Team

 


2016 // Senior // Race-by-Race Statistics
-Ran in all eight meets
-Two top 10s during the season
-Placed eighth at the Blue Jay Alumni Challenge on Sept. 17
-Finished ninth at the Landmark Conference Championships on Oct. 29, breaking 23 minutes in the 6k for the first time in the process
-All-Landmark Conference Second Team honor is third all-conference of her career and second straight in Landmark competition
-Competed at NCAA Division III Mideast Regional and finished three spots shy of being all-region (38th)
-Scoring member of team that ran at the NCAA Division III Championships in Louisville, Kentucky

2015 // Junior // Race-by-Race Statistics
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Ran in six of nine meets for the Jays
-Had a season-best 4k time of 16:33.25 at the Dickinson Short Course Invitational on Sept. 26
-Finished better than half the field on Oct. 17 at Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle where she ran a season-best 6k of 23:20.96
-Placed 13th for Elizabethtown at the Landmark Conference Championships, her second all-conference second team honor and first in the Landmark
-USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

2014 // Sophomore // Race-by-Race Statistics
-Competed in eight meets, one of six to do so
-Had one top-ten performance, which came in the season-opening Elizabethtown Alumni Challenge on Aug. 30 when she finished tenth overall
-Had a season-best 4k time the following meet at Shippensburg
-Ran her 6,000-meter personal best on Oct. 4 at the Geneseo Invitational, finishing in 23:15.8
-Took 16th at the Landmark Conference Championships on Nov. 1
-Also ran in the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional and NCAA Division III Championship meets
-USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

2013 // Freshman // Race-by-Race Statistics
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Appeared in six meets for Elizabethtown
-Scored for the Blue Jays in her first collegiate meet at Gettysburg
-Ran 11:47.50 to place 11th overall out of 43 runners in E-town's tiebreaker dual meet win over the Bullets
-Finished fifth at the Elizabethtown Blue Jay Alumni Challenge, her top placement of the season
-Ran a season-best 6k time of 23:30.0 at the Oberlin Inter-Regional Rumble to take 81st out of 287 competitors
-Took 20th to earn her first career All-MAC Second Team honor
-USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

High School
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Earned eight varsity letters competing in cross country and track & field at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pa
-Member of the PIAA XC State Championship teams in 2010, 2011, and 2012
-League and District champions in XC from 2009-2012
-Won four league championships as a member of the track & field team (2009-2012)
-Selected Suburban One League First Team in 2012
-Personal bests are 18:44 in the 5,000m, 15:40 in the 4,000m, 5:13 in the 1600m, and 2:20 in the 800m

Personal
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Daughter of Howard and Carol Wedekind
-Has an older brother, Christian
-Business major with a marketing concentration

 

Historical Player Information

  • 2013Freshman

    5'3"
  • 2014Sophomore

    5'3"
  • 2015Junior

    5'4"
  • 2016Senior

    5'4"