2023 Yale Women's Cross Country Roster

Sophia Karperos

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Rio Americano
  • Hometown Sacramento, Calif.

Biography

Collegiate Bests:
800m: 2:22.77
1000m: 3:04.95
1500m: 5:03.44
Mile: 5:10.72
3000m steeplechase: 11:15.55
3k: 10:19.31
5k: 17:51.16
3k (XC): 10:23.7
4k (XC): 14:38.4
5k (XC): 18:55.9
6k (XC): 22:14.2

2023-2024: In cross country, set a personal record over 4k of 14:38.4 in Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet...Doubled back with a 6k personal record of 22:14.2 at Lehigh Paul Short Run...Competed in Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships, finishing 74th overall...Did not compete in indoor track...For outdoor track, opened her season at UConn Dog Fight by competing in the 800m and setting a personal record of 5:03.44 in the 1500...Won the 3k steeplechase at both Yale vs. Harvard Dual and Mark Young Invitational...Rounded out her season with a 10th place finish in the 3k steeplechase at Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a time of 11:18.99.

2022-2023: In cross country, ran in Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet ... Competed in Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown ... Set a 6k personal best of 22:28.6 in Lehigh Paul Short Run... Competed in IC4A/ECAC XC Championship ... Finished seventh for Yale at Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, placing 62nd... Rounded out her season at NCAA Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships… In indoor track, opened season with a 3k at Dartmouth-Yale-Columbia tri-meet… Ran significant personal bests of 5:10.72 in mile and 10:19.31 in 3k at Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet… Ran her first track 5k at BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational… Competed in 5k at Ivy League Indoor Track and Field Championships… For outdoor track, opened season with 3k steeplechase at Raleigh Relays… Competed in steeplechase at Harvard/Yale vs. Oxford/Cambridge meet in April… Ran a personal best of 11:15.55 in steeplechase for seventh at Virginia Invitational… Competed in steeplechase and 5k at Ivy League Outdoor Track and Field Championships. 

2021-2022: For cross country, placed 28th at Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet… Ran a 6k personal record of 22:47.4 at Lehigh Paul Short Run… Competed at NEICAAA Cross Country Championships… Placed 28th at CCSU Mini Meet with a time of 10:23.7 for the 3k race…For indoor track, competed in the 3k at Yale Season Opener… Placed fifth in the 800m with a time of 2:22.77 at Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia tri-meet… Placed 10th in the 1000m run at BU Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational with a time of 3:04.95… Placed third in the mile at Giegengack Invitational with a personal record time of 5:16.33 … For outdoor track, opened the season with a 3k PR or 10:58.82 at UConn Dog Fight…Placed third in the steeplechase and fifth in 4x400m at Harvard-Yale Match…Placed second in steeplechase at Mark Young Invitational…Concluded the season with a win in the steeplechase and a personal record of 11:41.21 at Yale Springtime Invitational.  

2020-2021: No competition due to coronavirus pandemic.

Before Yale:  Team Captain and MVP for track and cross country… 2020 Rio Americano High School Female Athlete of the Year… High school record holder in 1500m, 1600m, mile, and 3000m… Achieved All-League seven times... Elite club soccer player for 11 years, competed on the Olympic Development Team and high school varsity team... Graduated Valedictorian… National Merit Commended Scholar… Awarded Civitas Student of the Year and June Gatewood Award for English.

Historical Player Information

  • 2020First Year

  • 2021Sophomore

  • 2022Junior

  • 2023Senior