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2025-26 Track and Field Roster

Ava Malagisi

  • Position DIS
  • Height 5-2
  • Class First Year
  • High School Ridgefield
  • Hometown Ridgefield, Conn.
  • School Columbia College

Biography

Prior to Columbia: FCIAC Exemplary Scholar Athlete Award … High Honors every quarter 2020-2024 … AP Scholar with Honor Award … All-State (Soccer 2022) … All-New England (Indoor Track 2024) for the 2 mile … 10:38 3200 … 4:57 Mile (2025 gap year) … 4:58 1600 leg of DMR at NBNO 2024 … 17:08 5K (2025 gap year).

Personal: Took a gap year 2024-2025 during which I trained for track/XC and raced unattached, worked as a research assistant at Spire Therapy … Worked as a fit specialist at my local running store (CT Run Co.) … Volunteer assistant coached my high school’s girls’ cross country and track team … Hobbies include yoga, nutrition, hairstyling, cooking, puzzles, painting, upcycling/thrifting, and ASL … Favorite sports memory includes both the girls and boys team winning outdoor FCIAC’s and doing a victory lap around the track with the whole team.