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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2021-22 Women's Track and Field

Don Felice
Don Felice

Haley Rizek

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool St. Pius X
  • Hometown Albuquerque, N.M.

Biography

ALL-TIME MARKS AND CAREER RECORDS

PERSONAL RECORDS

800m: 2:22.08
60m Hurdles: 8.83
100m Hurdles: 14.58
400m Hurdles: 59.68
Long Jump: 5.40m (17-8.75)
Javelin: 40.73m (133-7)
Shot Put: 11.73m (38-6)
Pentathlon: 3,614 points
Heptathlon: 4,941 points

CAREER ACCOLADES
2020 Ivy League Indoor Heps Team Champion
2019 Ivy League Outdoor Heps Team Champion
2019 Ivy League Indoor Heps Team Champion

PROGRAM RECORD BOOK
Outdoor 400m Hurdles: 3rd ... 2021 ... 59.68
Heptathlon: 5th ... 2021 ... 4,941 points
Indoor 60m Hurdles: 9th ... 2020 ... 8.83

OUTDOOR 2021

  • Competed in all seven regular-season meets
  • Reached personal-best marks in javelin (40.73m) and 100m (12.66) at Penn Challenge on March 27
  • Took first place in two-day Heptathlon at Quaker Invitational, setting personal-best mark and moving into fifth in program history with 4,941 points
  • Clocked a personal-best time of 59.68 in 400m hurdles at Philadelphia Metropolitan Collegiate Invitationals to take first and move to third in program history
  • Set personal-best marks in 200m (25.40) and long jump (5.40m) at Penn Twilight
  • At TCNJ Last Chance on May 13, hit new personal-best time of 14.58 in 100m hurdles
  • Qualified for NCAA East Preliminaries in Jacksonville in 400m hurdles, entering as 35th seed with a time of 59.68 and finishing 38th with a time of 1:00.43
INDOOR 2021
  • All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.

OUTDOOR 2020

  • All 2020 Ivy League sports were canceled on Wednesday, March 11 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
INDOOR 2020
  • Competed in six meets during the indoor season in a variety of events, including the pentathlon at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (March 1). 
  • Opened the season with a career-best mark of 5.06m (16-7.25) in the long jump at the Navy Invitational (Dec. 7).
  • Reached the final of the Villanova Invitational (Feb. 1) with the ninth-fastest time in program history in the 60m hurdles (8.83). Finished fifth in the final in 8.95m.
  • Totaled a career-high 3,281 points in the pentathlon at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge (Jan. 25) to place eighth.
  • Finished 10th in the pentathlon at Heps with 2,637 points.
OUTDOOR 2019
  • Competed in seven meets, including the 125th running of the Penn Relays (April 27) and Ivy League Outdoor Heps (May 5).
  • Finished seventh in the javelin at Heps with a mark of 36.12m.
  • Ran the 400m hurdles at the Penn Relays, finishing in 1:04.33.
  • Won the javelin at the Rider Invitational (April 13), recording a throw of 38.86m.
  • Crossed the line in the 400m hurdles at the Sam Howell Invitational (April 6) in 1:03.02, a PR.
INDOOR 2019
  • Appeared in seven meets in a variety of events.
  • Totaled eight top-10 finishes, including three at the Harvard-Penn Dual (Dec. 9), finishing sixth in the 4x440yd relay, sixth in the high jump and seventh in the shot put.
  • Qualified for the final and finished sixth in the 60m hurdles at the Villanova Invitational (Feb. 2), running a PR 8.94.
  • Recorded a PR at the Princeton Indoor Invitational (Feb. 16), leaping 4.86m in the long jump for an 11th-place finish.
  • Picked up another PR in the 200m at the Fastrack National Invite (Feb. 8), finishing 16th in 26.13.
High School: New Mexico No. 1 in the 100m hurdles and the javelin ... New Mexico state record holder in the 100m hurdles ... 2018 New Mexico state champion in the javelin.

Personal: Daughter of Regina and Tim Rizek ... Older brother, Quintin Rizek, played football at Brown ... Older brother, Tristin, played baseball at Lamar ... Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    Multi-Event
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Multi-Event
  • 2020-21Junior

    Multi-Event
  • 2021-22Senior

    Multi-Event