Cornell University Athletics

Wilkinson's Top Performances
400m	56.49
600m	1:31.47
800m	2:06.39
1000m	2:57.53

As a Senior (2014-15)
As a co-captain her senior season, Wilkinson anchored the two-mile relay team to a runner-up finish at Indoor Ivy League Heptagonals. She placed first in the 600m at the Denault Memorial and third in the 800 at the Kane Invitational and helped the 4x800 relay team to a win at the Upstate Challenge. Outdoors, she won the 800 at the Bucknell Invitational

As a Junior (2013-14)
Wilkinson finished her junior season for the Big Red with a number of impressive performances in multiple events, concluding with an NCAA appearance.  She had a competitive showing at the Indoor Heps both as the third leg in the first-place-finishing 4x400 relay team and as fourth place in the 800 as an individual.  Going on to compete in the Outdoor ECACs in both events, she helped her 4x400 team to a repeat first-place finish and improved to third place in the 800.  Her contributions at the Indoor ECACs totaled 18 points for Cornell.  Moving into the outdoor season, she again ran the 800 at the Outdoor Heps to an improved time of 2:07.88 and ran second leg in the 4x800 to a fourth-place finish.  Her season concluded as second leg in the 4x400, the relay team finishing first at the Outdoor ECACs and 13^th at the preliminaries for the NCAA Championships.

As a Sophomore (2012-13)
Wilkinson did not race cross country as a sophomore, but she set personal bests in four events during her sophomore season. She was on the Big Red's fifth-place 4x880-yard relay team at the Indoor Heps while also placing 12th in the 800 as an individual. Wilkinson then took 10th at the ECAC Indoor Championships in the 800 before transitioning to the outdoor season. At the Penn Relays, she ran on Cornell's DMR team that took 11th place in the College section. She then helped the Big Red to two points in the 4x800 at the Outdoor Heps and was ninth as an individual in the 800 in a personal-best time. Wilkinson ended her season by finishing 25th at the Outdoor ECACs in May and was given the Theodota Ladas Award as ornell's best mid-distance athlete at the team's year-end banquet.

Before Cornell
One of the top middle distance runners on the East Coast, Wilkinson enters Cornell with an 800-meter best of 2:10.92. She was second at the USATF National Junior Olympics in 2010 and was named athlete of the year by the Mid-Atlantic Division of USA Track and Field.

Personal
Elyse Wilkinson is the daughter of Gregory and Lola Sergeant-Wilkinson and has a sister, Gabrielle. Elyse was awarded a prestigious Cornell Meinig Scholarship in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her mother is a former member of the Cornell track and field team.