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2013 Women's Cross Country Roster

Cara Janeczko

  • Position Mid-Distance
  • Class Senior
  • High School Shenendehowa HS
  • Hometown Clifton Park, N.Y.

Biography

Janeczko's Top Performances
800m2:21.80
1000m3:04.50
1500m4:51.83
Mile5:20.83
3000m10:47.46
As a Senior (2013-14)
Janeczko ran her best 5K time this season at the Anderson meet and was the first Big Red runner to finish. She placed 7th overall with a time of 18:23.3. She then placed 50th at the Princeton Championship 6K Run (22:45.0). At the Reif Memorial Run, she placed 20th with a time of 19:02.5.

Janeczko competed at four indoor and four outdoor events in her final season. She focused primarily in the middle distances, posting new career bests in the 1000, 1500, and mile. Her best mile came at the Robert J. Kane Invitational, posting a 5:10.70 in a 6th place finish. She marked a career best 1000 of 3:04.50 in a 3rd place finish at the Bomber Invitational. Outdoors, she posted her best 1500 of 4:50.97 in an 11th place finish.

As a Junior (2012-13)
Janeczko raced twice for the Big Red in 2012. She placed 27th at the season-opening Army-Binghamton tri-meet, running 19:18.80 in West Point. She followed that with a 41st-place effort at the Yellowjacket Invitational the next week.

During the track season, Janeczko set new personal records in the 1500 and the 3K. Her best mark in the 3K, 10:47.46, came at the Binghamton-Buffalo tri-meet in mid-April. She broke her 1500 record by more than a second in her last meet of the year. Indoors, she moved her mile time down by 10 seconds.

As a Sophomore (2011-12)
Janeczko ran in three races in her first year for the Big Red, taking 31st place at the Yellowjacket Invitational, 43rd at the Colgate Invitational and 33rd at the season-opening Army-Binghamton tri-meet.

Before Cornell
A transfer from William & Mary, she was a league finalist in the 1,500 in the Colonial Athletic Conference. Janeczko also had a very successful high school career for Shenendehowa, where she was a many-time state meet competitor.

Personal
Cara Janeczko is enrolled in the College of Human Ecology.

Historical Player Information

  • 2011-12Sophomore

    Mid-Distance
  • 2012-13Junior

    Mid-Distance
  • 2013-14Senior

    Mid-Distance