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2017 Women's Cross Country

Elaine House

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool New Providence
  • Hometown New Providence, NJ

Biography

Senior Year (2017)

  • Ran in six events, finishing in the team's top five three times.
  • Ran career bests for 4,000 meters (17:45.0, Sept. 1) and 5,000 meters (21:24.1, Sept. 9).
  • Had a season-best 20th-place finish at the Cougar Classic on Sept. 16 at Misericordia in Dallas, Pa.

Junior Year (2016)

  • Ran in all seven of the team's events, finishing in the team's top four each time.
  • Had a season-best 16th-place finish and was the second Royal across the line at the Cougar Classic on Sept. 17, finishing the 6,000-meter course in 26:38.59.
  • Ran a career-best 24:52.0 for 6,000 meters at the Inter-Regional Border Battle on Oct. 15.
  • Was the team's third runner acrosse the line at the Landmark Conference championship on Oct. 29, finishing the 6,000 meters in 25:02.84.

Sophomore Year (2015)

  • Ran in seven of the team's eight events.
  • Had a season-best 37th-place finish at the Highlander Invitational on Sept. 19 in Langhorne, Pa., completing the 6,000-meter course in 25:59.66.
  • Ran a season-best 25:35.46 for 6,000 meters at the Inter-Regional Border Battle at Rowan on Oct. 17.

Freshman Year (2014)

  • Competed in five meets
  • Ran a personal-best time of 21:53.6 for 5000 meters at the Roadrunner Invitational (Ramapo College) in Woodland Park, NJ, on Sept. 20, finishing 14th overall, and 26:14 for 6000 meters in placing 187th at the Princeton Invitational on Oct. 18.
  • Ended the season by placing 57th in 27:18.3 over a 6000-meter course at the Landmark Conference championships held at Goucher College in Towson, Md., on Nov. 1

Top 25 Finishes

  • 16th - 26:38.59, 6,000 meters, Cougar Classic (Misericordia), Sept. 17, 2016
  • 20th - 27:07.46, 6,000 meters, Cougar Classic (Misericordia), Sept. 16, 2017

Landmark Conference Championship Finishes

  • 2014 - 57th, 27:18.3, 6,000 meters, Nov. 1, Goucher College, Towson, Md.
  • 2015 - 55th, 27:30.57, 6,000 meters, Oct. 31, Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park, N.Y.
  • 2016 - 33rd, 25:02.84, 6,000 meters, Oct. 29, Bicentennial Park, Northampton, Pa.
  • 2017 - 41st, 28:08.00, 6,000 meters, Oct. 28, Standing Stone Golf Club, Huntingdon, Pa.

NCAA Mideast Finishes

  • 2016 - 182nd, 25:27, 6,000 meters, Nov. 12, DeSales University, Center Valley, Pa.

High School/Personal

  • Lettered in outdoor track and field and volleyball three times and indoor track and field once
  • Was selected honorable mention Union County Conference Valley Division for outdoor track and field as a junior and was named the most valuable player (MVP) of the indoor and outdoor track and field and volleyball teams her senior year
  • Holds the indoor school record for the 600-meter run
  • Member of the school-record breaking indoor distance medley and outdoor 800-meter relay teams
  • Her personal-best in the 400 meters was 1:01.74, 1:07.66 for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles, and 1:45.4 for 600 meters
  • Daugher of Rob & Lisa House
  • Her parents are graduates of Lafayette College; her mom played on the field hockey team there as a freshman
  • Has two siblings: Peter (16) and Lauren (11)

Historical Player Information

  • 2014Freshman

  • 2015Sophomore

  • 2016Junior

  • 2017Senior

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