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2020-21 Women's Track & Field Roster

Leya Salis

  • Position Distance
  • Class Senior
  • High School Bedford HS
  • Hometown Bedford, N.H.

Biography

Leya Salis' up-to-date results

As a Junior (2019-20)

• Did not compete in any meets.
 

As a Sophomore (2018-19)

• Did not compete in any track meets.
• Ran in one cross country meet.
 

As a Freshman (2017-18)

• Holds four freshman records (indoor 800, 1000, indoor DMR and 1500).
• Sixth in school history in the 1000 and 10th in the 1500.
• Also ranks second in the outdoor DMR, third in the indoor 4x800 relay and eighth in the outdoor 4x800.
• NCAA East Preliminary Championships qualifier in the 1500, taking 32nd overall (4:25.39).
• Second-Team All-Ivy (Indoor 4x800 relay)
• Double scorer at Outdoor Heps, placing fourth in the 1500 (4:23.46) and third in the 4x800 (8:43.83).
• Scored at Indoor Heps as a member of the runner-up 4x800 relay (8:50.23).
• Also took ninth in the 800 (2:11.51).
• Third in the 800 at the ECAC Indoor Championships (2:10.41) and fifth in the 800 (2:08.60) at the ECAC Outdoor Championships.
• Tallied four wins during the indoor season.
• Double winner at the Southern Tier Collegiate Open in the 800 (2:14.39) and the 4x400 relay (4:08.79).
• Additionally, won the mile at the Upstate Challenge (4:57.78) and the 800 at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup (2:11.11).
• Had a successful cross country season, competing in five meets.
• Placed 16th at the quad meet with Columbia, Brown and NYU and followed that up with a 56th-place finish at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown.
• Then took 160th at the Paul Short Run and was the 79th runner to cross the line at the Penn State National Open.
• At the Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships, took 60th to close out her inaugural collegiate cross country season.
 

Prior to Cornell

• A multiple state champion in high school and runner-up at the New England high school championships in cross country, Leya won the Penn Relays high school Girls Mile Championship as a senior.
• She has personal best of 2:07.32 for 800 meters. 2:48.25 for 1000 meters and 4:45.16 for the mile.

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Freshman

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  • 2018-19Sophomore

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  • 2019-20Junior

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  • 2020-21Senior

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