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2022-23 Women's Track and Field Roster

Michael Nance

Olivia Babski

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool American School of Doha
  • Hometown Doha, Qatar

Biography

ALL-TIME MARKS AND CAREER RECORDS

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
Indoor 4x800m: 5th ... 2023 ... 8:51.21

OUTDOOR 2023
  • Competed in seven meets during the outdoor season
  • Set a career best in the 800 with 2:11.21 while placing third at the Widener Invite (Apr. 21-22)
  • Placed second in the 800 at the Big Five Meet (Apr. 1)

INDOOR 2023

  • Competed in four meets during the indoor season
  • Placed third in the 4x800m with 8:51.21 at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships (Feb. 25-26)
  • Placed seventh in the Mile with 5:17.64 at the Wesley A. Brown Invitational (Jan. 20-21)
  • Placed seventh in the 1000m with 2:52.74 at the Scarlet Knight Open (Feb. 3-4)
CROSS COUNTRY 2022
  • Did not compete.
OUTDOOR 2022
  • Competed in six meets during the outdoor season
  • Set a career best in the 1500m with 4:29.59 at the Larry Ellis Invitational (Apr. 15-16)
  • Set a career best in the 800m with 2:11.52 at the Mason Spring Invitational (Apr. 9)
  • Placed first in the 4x800 with 8:50.52 at the Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Championships (May 7-8)
INDOOR 2022
  • Competed in five meets during the indoor season
  • Set a career best in the Mile with 4:56.69 at the Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge (Feb. 4-5)
  • Set a career best in the 1000m with 2:51.29 at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational (Feb. 11-12)
  • Placed third in the 4x800m with 8:54.96 at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships (Feb. 26-27)

CROSS COUNTRY 2021

  • Did not compete.

OUTDOOR 2021

  • Did not compete.
INDOOR 2021
  • All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
CROSS COUNTRY 2020
  • All 2020 Ivy League fall sports were canceled on July 8 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 four meets during the indoor season.
  • Joined the 4x400m relay team to a runner-up finish at the Penn 8-Team Select in 3:50.07.
  • Ran a season-best time of 2:20.41 in the 800m at Penn State's Sykes Sabock Challenge (Feb. 8), finishing 15th.
CROSS COUNTRY 2019
  • Competed in four races during her sophomore season.
  • Finished a season-best 34th at the Main Line Invitational (Sept. 20), crossing the line in 19:00.9.
  • Placed 37th at the Fordham Fiasco (Sept. 7). Also ran at the Paul Short Run (Oct. 5).
OUTDOOR 2019
  • Appeared in four meets, running the 800m and 1500m.
  • Ran a personal best time of 4:48.10 at the Sam Howell Invitational (April 6), for a 17th-place finish in the 1500m.
  • Placed 16th at the Rider Invitational (April 13), her best finish of the season, in the 1500m.
INDOOR 2019
  • Competed in six meets during her freshman indoor season, running in mid-distance events.
  • Opened her collegiate career with a pair of top-five finishes at the TCNJ Indoor Open (Dec. 1) in the 1000m and 4x400m.
  • Finished third in the Harvard-Penn Dual (Dec. 9) in the 1000m, crossing the line in 2:58.99.
  • Helped the DMR team to a fifth-place finish at the Wesley A. Brown Invitational (Jan. 12).
CROSS COUNTRY 2018
  • Ran once in the fall.
  • Finished 55th at the season-opening Bison Open, an event that the Quakers won.
High School: 2016, 2017 MESAC Cross Country Champion (5K) ... Three-time MESAC 1,500m and 3,000m Champion (2016-2018) ... Two-time MESAC 800m Champion (2017, 2018) ... Holds the MESAC Records in the 800m and 1500m.

Personal: Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    Middle Distance
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Middle Distance
  • 2021-22Senior

    Mid-Distance
  • 2022-23Senior

    Mid-Distance