Claire DeVoe's up-to-date results
As a Senior (2015-16)
DeVoe had another strong cross country season, placing a season-best 10th at the Brother Jasper Invitational. She finished 35th at Ivy League Cross Country Championships and qualified for NCAA Division I Northeast Region Championships.
On the track, she helped the distance medley relay to a runner-up finish at the Nittany Lion Challenge and to a win at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup. Individually, she won the 800 meters at the Cornell Indoor Upstate Challenge. At Ivy League Indoor Heptagonals, her 4x800 team placed fourth and she finished sixth in the 1000. Outdoors, she competed in the 3K steeplechase, placing third at the UCLA Distance Carnival, fifth at the Bison Outdoor Classic and ninth at Outdoor Heps.
As a Junior (2014-15)
In the season-opening meet at Army, DeVoe rounded out the scoring for Cornell, finishing in sixth with a 5K time of 17:50.86. She ran a personal best 6K at Lehigh (21:18). At Ivy League Heptagonals, she placed a career-best 18
th, bettering her time from the previous season’s Heps by 12 seconds.
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On the track, she placed second in the mile at the Beantown Challenge, crossing the line in what was, at the time, a personal best 4:54.15. She would beat that time at the SPIRE Invitational, coming in at 4:50.08. At Indoor ECAC’s, her 1000 prelim time of 2:48.10 was good for sixth best all-time at Cornell and ninth best all-time in the Ivy League. She also placed no. 4 on the all-time list at Cornell with her 3000 steeplechase time of 10:17.54 at outdoor ECAC’s. At the Sykes-Sabock Challenge, she was a member of the winning distance medley relay, which finished the event in 11:36.33, good for no. 8 all-time at Cornell. She also placed first in the 3000 steeplechase (10:29.08) at the Bucknell Invitational and was second in the same event (10:29.22) at Penn Relays. DeVoe was also named to the USTFCCCA all-Academic Team.
As a Sophomore (2013-14)
DeVoe was one of seven Big Red cross country runners to compete in the NCAA Championships this year, where she finished 198th with a 6K time of 22:02.4. She also ran 6Ks at the Ivy League/Heptagonal Championships, the Paul Short Gold, and the Wisconsin Invitational. Her 5K times include a 6th place finish at the meet against Army and a 38th place finish at the Boston College Invitational.
DeVoe proved herself to be a distance force on the track team her sophomore year. She ran third leg in the 4x800 at the Indoor Heps, helping her team to finish seventh place in the event. She also competed in the 3000m run at the Indoor ECACs to a 24
th-place finish. At the Outdoor Heps, she again ran in the 4x800 to a team 4
th-place finish and as an individual in the 3000m steeplechase to 5
th place. Her total contributions at the Outdoor Heps totaled six points for the Big Red. Her impressive times took her to the Outdoor ECACs for a 5
th-place finish in the 3000m run at 9:45.75 and on to the NCAA East Preliminaries for a 29
th-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase at 10:29.10. In the postseason, DeVoe was one of eight Cornell women to be named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team.
As a Freshman (2012-13)
DeVoe had a stellar freshman season, competing for the Big Red in multiple important meets. She ran for the Big Red at the Heptagonal Championships and also was the team's top finisher at the Princeton Invitational, taking 20th in 22:10. DeVoe also ran at the Paul Short Run, placing 102nd in a field of more than 350 athletes. Her highest finish of the year came in the Yellowjacket Invitational where she placed eighth overall.
DeVoe continued to excel on the track, running for Cornell at the NCAA East Regional in Greensboro, N.C. There, she placed 21st overall and eighth in her heat by running 10:20.62 to set a new Cornell freshman record in the event. Earlier in the track season, she ran as part of the Big Red's DMR team at the Indoor ECAC Championship where Cornell placed fourth. She scored four points for the Big Red at the Outdoor Heps by placing fourth in the 3K steeplechase in a personal-best time, and she also ran the 3K where she placed 17th. In her last meet before the NCAA Regional, DeVoe was eighth to score one point for the Big Red in the 3K steeplechase at the ECAC Outdoor Championship.
Before Cornell
DeVoe had a breakthrough senior year, finishing eighth in the highly competitive Oregon state cross country meet and emerging as one of the top 1500- and 3000-meter runners in the state during the track season. DeVoe comes to Cornell with personal bests of 4:35.11 for 1500 and 10:06.68 for 3000 meters.
Personal
Claire Marie DeVoe is the daughter of Chuck and Jennifer DeVoe. She has an older brother who attends Princeton.
