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2022-23 Women's Track and Field Roster

Rachel Ruggiero

  • Position Distance
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Holtsville, N.Y.
  • High School Sachem East
  • Major Undeclared

Biography

2022-23 (Graduate)
Outdoor: Placed 16th and set a new personal best in the 1500m (4:41.69) at the CAA Outdoor Championships ... Member of the DMR squad that placed 10th overall at the Penn Relays ... Secured an eighth place finish and a new personal best in the 800m (2:20.86) at the Mark Young Invite. 

Indoor: Placed 15th in the mile at the CAA Indoor Championships ... Part of the 4x800 relay team that earned an eighth place finish at the CAA Indoor Championships ... Member of the DMR team that won the Scarlet Knight Open ... Earned an eighth place finish in the 800m at the Wagner Invite ... 2022 CAA Fall Commissioner's Honor Roll.

Cross Country: Did not appear during the season. 

2021-22 (Senior)
Outdoor: Placed third in the 3000m at the Yale Springtime Invite with a final time of 10:17.07 ... Earned fourth-place finish in the 1500m at the Mark Young Invite with a final time of 4:45.31 ... Placed 18th in the 5000m at the Colonial Relays with a personal best time of 17:30.33 ... Earned a first-place finish in the 3000m at the Stony Brook Snowflake Classic ... America East Spring Commissioner's Honor Roll.

Indoor: Placed 24th in the mile at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Track & Field Championships ... Earned a fifth-place finish in the mile at the Fastrack Last Chance with a personal best time of 4:56.51 ... Member of the DMR team that took second (12:31.16) at the Fastrack Last Chance ... Took seventh in the 3000m at the Great Dane Classic. 

Cross Country: Placed seventh at the IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships with a final time of 18:32.2 (5K) ... Took 66th at the NCAA Division I Northeast region Cross Country Championships (6K) ... Placed 17th at the America East Cross Country Championships with a personal best time of 17:33.3 (5K) ... Competed at the Princeton Cross Country Invite, Lehigh Paul Short Run, Friar Cross Country Invite, and the Stony Brook Cross Country Invite ... America East Fall Honor Roll.

2020-21 (Junior)
Outdoor: Placed ninth in the 3000m at the IC4A/ECAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a final time of 10:22.42 ... Earned a seventh-place finish in the 1500m at the America East Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a final time of 4:42.87 ... Member of the 4x800m relay team that took sixth (9:25.76) at the America East Outdoor Championships ... Earned seventh-place finish in the 3000m at the Ocean State Invite with a personal best time of 10:05.34 ... Placed fourth in the 1500m at the Wolfie Invite with a personal best time of 4:42.35 ... America East Spring Honor Roll.

Cross Country: Placed 22nd at the America East Cross Country Championships with a final time of 18:56.6 (5K) ... America East Fall Honor Roll.

2019-20 (Sophomore)
Indoor: America East Honor Roll ... Placed eighth in the 3000m (10:50.82) in the Fastrack Season Opener ... Part of a quartet that finished second in the 4x800m (10:41.68) at the Robert Elkin Invitational ... Part of a DMR team that placed second (12:05.22) and finished sixth in the mile (5:10.73) at the Mets Indoor Championship ... Had a career-best run in the 1000m (3:03.60) at the UAlbany Winter Classic ... Part of a 4x800m quartet that placed fourth (9:19.67) and had a career-best mile run (5:06.61) at the America East Indoor Championship ... Part of a DMR quartet that earned 12th (12:00.16) at the ECAC Indoor Championship.

Cross Country: Finished NCAA Northeast Regional in 161st, completing 6k in 22:15.6… Placed 27th at America East Cross Country Championships in 18:09.7 (5k)… Placed ninth in R.K. Munsey Invitational, finishing 5k in 18:36.3… Completed Paul Short Run in 22:11 (6k) for 55th place…Took 164th overall at Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown, crossing the line in 20:06 (5k).

2018-19 (Freshman)
Cross Country: Finished the Stony Brook Season Opener with a time of 15:29.16... Ran in the America East Championship and finished with a time of 18:23.72... Finished the IC4A's with a time of 17:58.

High School
Competed in 800m, 1500m, 3K at Sachem East High School... Four year letter winner (2014-2018).

Special Awards/Honors:
All County, All League, All Division (2014-2018), All American (2016), All State (2016, 2018)

Personal
Daughter of Anthony and Erika Ruggiero... Has older brother Anthony and younger brother Michael ... Undeclared major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    Distance
  • 2019-20Sophomore

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  • 2020-21Junior

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  • 2021-22Senior

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  • 2022-23Graduate Student

    Distance
    5'7"
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