2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster

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Ruby Barton

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Wellington, New Zealand
  • High School Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
  • Opendorse ruby-barton

Biography

Collegiate Bests: 
500m: 1:19.59
800m: 2:15.89
1000m: 2:58.51
1500m: 4:44.29
Mile: 5:06.29
6k (XC): 23:21.8

2024-2025: Represented Yale for first time in cross country... Set 6k personal record of 23:21.8 at Lehigh Paul Short Invite... Wrapped up cross country season at ECAC Cross Country Championships... Opened indoor track with personal record of 5:06.29 in mile at Yale Season Opener... Competed in 1k at River Hawk Invitational and Bruce Lehane Scarlet & White Invitational... Wrapped up indoor track with sixth-place finish in 800m at Yale Giegengack Invitational... In outdoor, raced 800m at Sam Howell Invitational, Mark Young Invitational, and UMass Ken O'Brien Pre-Conference Qualifier... Represented Yale in 1500m at the Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge Meet. 

2023-2024: Did not compete in cross country... Opened indoor season with collegiate best of 1:19.59 in 500m at Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia tri-meet… Ran 800m personal record of 2:15.89 at the 2024 River Hawk Invitational... Set 1000m personal record of 2:58.51 at Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational... Competed in 1000m at ECAC Indoor Track & Field Championships... Ended outdoor season with third-place finish and personal record of 4:44.29 in 1500m at Yale Springtime meet.

2022-2023: Did not compete in cross country... Opened indoor season with collegiate best of 3:01.07 in 1000m at Yale Season Opener… Set collegiate best of 1:21.02 in 500m and placed fifth in 4x400m at Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia tri-meet… Placed fifth in 800m and fourth in 4x880y relay at Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet… Ran collegiate best of 2:16.29 in 800m at BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational… Competed in 800m and placed fifth in DMR at Ivy League Indoor Track and Field Championships…Competed in 800m at Indoor ECAC Track and Field Championships… For outdoor track, opened season with 800m at Raleigh Relays… Raced 1500m at UConn Dog Fight… Competed in 800m at Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge meet in Boston in April… Ran 2:16.90 for 800m to earn fifth at Mark Young Invitational.

Before Yale: Head of track and field at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School… New Zealand Secondary School Champion in the Junior Girls 800m… Two-time Wellington Regional Champion in the senior girls 800m… Two-tie Wellington Regional Champion in senior girls 1500m… Athletics Wellington Youth Middle/Long Distance Athlete of the Year 2021… Member of National Championship-winning Wellington Secondary School XC Relay Team... Recorded two third-place finishes at National Road Relay Championships as part of U20 Women’s Wellington Harrier Athletic Club Team… Played tennis in high school.

Why Yale? “I chose Yale because the women’s distance team was unmatched by anywhere else. As an international student, I could see myself pursuing excellence at Yale while also feeling that I’d found my second home.” 

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    Distance
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Distance
  • 2024-25Junior

    Distance
  • 2025-26Senior

    Distance