2019-20 Women's Track and Field

Rachel Suss

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Metuchen High School
  • Hometown Metuchen, N.J.

Biography

Collegiate Bests:

800m 2:19.39

1,500m 4:43.75

Mile 5:09.89

3,000m 9:54.90

5,000m 17:13.51

2019-2020: In cross country, competed at the Harvard-Yale season opener running a season’s best in the 5K… Competed at the UVA Panorama Farms Invite… Raced at the New England Cross Country Championships… Finished 1st for the team and 22nd overall at the CCSU Mini Meet...Competed at the 2019 Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships...In indoor track, opened up her season competing in the 3,000 meters at the Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia tri-meet… Competed in the 800 meters and the mile at the John Thomas Terrier Classic… Ran a personal best in the 3,000 meters at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet to finish second… Ran a big personal best in the 5,000 meters at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational… Finished 10th in the 5,000 meters at the Ivy League Indoor Track and Field Championship running 17:28.36. 

2018-2019: In cross country, competed in the Open Race of the Paul Short Invitational, placing seventh for Yale...Competed at the CCSU Mini Meet placing fifth on the team... In indoor track, finished third at the Yale Season Opener in the 3000-meter run... Ran a new collegiate best in the mile of 5:09.89 at Harvard-Yale-Princeton... Ran first ever 5000-meter run at David Hemery Valentine Invitational... Competed in the 3000-meter run at the Ivy League Indoor Track and Field Championship... In outdoor track opened her season finishing seventh in the 5,000 meters at the Sam Howell Invitational... Ran a personal best of 4:43.75 in the 1500 meters at the Harvard Yale Dual Meet... Ran a personal best of 10:00.70 in the 3,000 meters at the Yale Springtime Invite to finish second overall... Recorded yet another personal best, finishing in 17:36.29 for the 5,000 meters at the Ivy League Outdoor Track and Field Championships. 

2017-2018: Did not compete in cross country...In indoor track, finished fifth in the mile at the Yale Season Opener...Competed in the 3,000-meter run at the BU David Hemery Invitation and ran a lifetime best of 10:11.98...During outdoor track, ran a new lifetime best in the 1,500 meter run of 4:46.49...Finished third in the 1,500-meter run at the Mark Young Invitational...Finished fourth in the 3,000-meter run at the Harvard-Yale dual meet with a time of 10:12.31.

2016-2017: In cross country, placed 13th at the Fordham Fiasco.... 46th in the Paul Short Run, Open Level... In indoor track, finished eighth in the 3000m run... Ran a personal best of 5:15.07 in the mile run at the Valentine Invitational... In outdoor track, competed in the mile run at the HY/OC meet... Competed in the 1,500m run at Harvard Yale, finishing 11th.

Before Yale: In cross country, a two-time champion in NJSIAA Central Sectional Championship… Champion at the 2014 Group 1 State Championship… Fourth at 2014 NJSIAA Meet of Champions… In track, fourth at 2015 NJSIAA Indoor Track & Field Meet of Champions in 3200m… Eighth at 2015 NJSIAA Outdoor Meet of Champions in 3200m… Nine separate Group 1 State titles… Led team to four straight sectional titles… Qualified to both Millrose Games and Penn Relays as an individual... High school valedictorian. 

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First Year

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  • 2017-18Sophomore

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  • 2018-19Junior

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  • 2019-20Senior

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