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2019 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster

Jenna Melanson

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • High School La Center
  • Hometown Woodland, Wash.
  • Major Biological Engineering

Biography

2019:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Did not appear in a race
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American

2018: 
- Google Cloud First Team Academic All-American
- Google Cloud Academic All-District
- USTFCCCA All-Region
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Finished 15th at the NEICAAA Championship in a time of 18:26.28
- Placed 15th at the UW-Oshkosh Kollege Town Sports Invitational in 22:26.84 
- Finished second at the NEWMAC Championship in 19:00
- Placed 10th at the NCAA Regional in 22:17.96, followed by an 89th-place performance at the NCAA Championship at 22:28.4

2017:
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Google Cloud Second Team Academic All-American
- Google Cloud Academic All-District
- Finished 55th at the NEICAAA Championship in 19:10.2
- Placed 45th at the Cowbell Classic in 23:05.53 and 12th at the NEWMAC Championship in 19:10

2016:
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- Finished 14th in her collegiate debut at the Purple Valley Classic, running a time of 22:39.6
- Placed 30th at the NEICAAA Championship in 18:33.8 and 58th at the Border Battle with a time of 22:10.6
- Finished 11th at the NEWMAC Championship, crossing in 19:17

Off the Cross Country Trail:
- Majoring in biological engineering with a minor in literature
- Earned the National MS Society Scholarship and the Hadden Scholarship
- Did a UROP in the Shalek Lab, doing longitudinal profiling of B and T cell transcriptomes during multiple sclerosis immunotherapy
- Algal biofuels research at the Colorado School of Mines

High School:
- Three-year letterwinner in cross country and four-year letterwinner in track and field at La Center High School, where she also played soccer
- Holds the school record in the 1,600, 3,200, 5K, 100-meter high hurdles and the 2,000-meter steeplechase
- Finished fourth in the WIAA 1A Championship in the 1,600 and sixth in the 3,200 meters
- Finished seventh in the state in cross country
- USATF JO Regional Champ in the 2,000-meter steeplechase
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Senior class president and NHS president
- Received the Washington State Cross Country Coaches Scholarship, the National MS Society Scholarship, the Hadden Scholarship and the Walden M. Groves Scholarship

Historical Player Information

  • 2016First Year

    5'7"
  • 2017Sophomore

    5'7"
  • 2018Junior

    5'7"
  • 2019Senior

    5'7"