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2009-10 Track and Field Roster

Danielle Lyons

  • Class Junior
  • Position Mid-Distance
  • Height 5-7
  • Hometown South Glastonbury, CT
  • High School Glastonbury

Biography

Personal Bests:
400 - 60.99 (2-2-08)
800 - 2:12.72 (2-27-09)
1000 - 2:56.61 (3-7-08)
1500 - 4:36.95 (4-2-10)

Honors and Awards: NE-10 Winter All-Academic Team (2011)...Four-time Northeast-10 All-Conference selection (2010)...USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic Honors (2010)...selected to compete in the Penn Relays Invitational Mile(2010)...School record holder at 1500 meters, 4:36.95 (20101) Five-time national qualifier in the 800 meter, 2010 national qualifier at 1500 meters and in the DMR...six-time conference champion, indoors in the 800 and 1000, outdoors in the 800, outdoor All-Conference in the 1500 and indoors in the 4x400 (2009)...USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic Honors (2008), Collegiate Track Conference (CTC) champion indoors in the 800 and 1000 meter runs as well as the outdoor 800 and 4x800 (2008)...three-time ECAC Track and Field Athlete of the Week (1/24, 1/31 & 2/18/2008)... part of the relay teams that set school records at the PENN Relays in the SMR and 4x400 with times of 4:15.29 and 4:05.28 respectively (2008)...school record holder in the 800 and 1000 (2008).

2010-11: Competed in mostly the 800, mile and relay events...part of the 4x8 relay squad that ran a season best time of 10:30 at the Outdoor Conference Championship (5/7).

2009-10: Qualified for the national meet indoors in the 800 meter run and as a member of Adelphi[apos]s distance medley relay...helped Adelphi to an Northeast-10 indoor title in the distance medley relay, closing down the field on her anchor leg, she also placed third in the mile at the championship meet (5:08.71)...placed third at the outdoor Northeast-10 Championship meet in the 1500 (4:41.29)...was a four-time Northeast-10 All-Conference award winner...set a new school record in the 1500 at the Sam Howell Invitational, stopping the clock at 4:36.95. 2008-09: Automatically qualified for the national meet indoors by running 2:12.72 at the NYU Fastrack meet (2/27) which was good enough to placed 9th on the national list and also setting the school record...ran in the semi-finals at NCAA[apos]s...CTC champion indoors in the 800 and 1000, outdoor champion in the 800 and placed second in the 1500...qualified provisionally for the national meet outdoors with a time of 2:13.5 at the NYC Qualifiying Challenge (5/8).

2007-08: Provisionally qualified for the NCAA DII National Championships in the 800 during both indoors and outdoors with times of 2:15.85 (3/8) and 2:14.47 (5/10) respectively...Conference champion indoors in the 800 and 1000 and outdoors in the 800 and 4x800...set a new personal best in the 1000 at the indoor ECAC Championships with a time of 2:56.61 (3/7).

At Glastonbury: Varsity Softball, Indoor and Outdoor Track and Cross Country during her career...all-conference, all-academic in softball for three years and a Hartford Courant second team all-state selection sophomore year...all-conference, all-state selection in track sophomore year...all-conference, all-state, all-new england in indoor track junior year...all-conference, all-state, all-new england, two-time All-American in Track senior year...member of the National Honor Society...Science National Honor Society, Slavic and Spanish National Honor Society...Gold Medalist in a National essay contest for Russian.

Personal: Majoring in nursing...Parents are Karen and John...enjoys hanging out with friends, going to the movies, and relaxing at home.

Historical Player Information

  • 2007-08Freshman

    Mid-Distance
    5'7"
  • 2008-09Sophomore

    Mid-Distance
    5'7"
  • 2009-10Junior

    Mid-Distance
    5'7"