2021-22 Women's Track and Field Roster

Lily Potthast

  • Class First Year
  • Hometown Jay, N.Y.
  • High School AuSable Valley

Biography

Collegiate Bests:
1500m: 4:59.18
Mile: 5:11.60
3k: 10:10.67
5k: 17:18.64
4.8k (XC): 17:57.1
5k (XC): 18:57.4
6k (XC): 22:20.0

2021-2022: For cross country, placed 26th at Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet… Ran a personal best of 18:57 and was seventh for Yale at Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown…Ran a 6k personal best of 22:20.0 at Paul Short Run…Competed at Panorama Farms XC23 Invitational in Virginia…Competed at Ivy League Cross Country Championships … For indoor track, raced the 3k at Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia tri-meet… Ran a personal best of 5:11.60 in the mile at BU Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invite… Ran a personal best of 10:10.67 at BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational… Placed 11th in the 5k at Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships with a 17:18.64 and was Yale’s first finisher in the event … For outdoor track, secured her first collegiate win in the 3k at UConn Dog Fight…Competed in the 1500m at Harvard-Yale Match…Competed in the 10k at Ivy League Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Before Yale: Set school record in two mile, indoor and outdoor 3000m, 1000m, 600m, indoor 1500m, and 1600m, as well as home cross country course record ... Team captain as a sophomore, junior, and senior ... Team qualified for and competed in 2017, 2018, and 2019 New York State Cross Country Championships (placing top 20 for class C in 2018) ... Team qualified for and competed in 2018, 2019, and 2020 New York State Indoor Championships ... Team competed in 2019 Cross Country New York State Federation meet.

Notes: Lead keyboard player for school’s Jazz band and Wind Ensemble for all four years of high school.
 
Why Yale? “I chose Yale because I wanted to be surrounded by students constantly striving for excellence, professors and coaches invested in their students, and a university that is a haven for higher learning.”