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2022-23 Track and Field Roster

Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin

Emily Rooney

  • Position DIS
  • Class Senior
  • High School Seaholm
  • Hometown Birmingham, Mich.
  • School Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Biography

2022-23 (Senior): (ITF) 3rd in pole vault at Dartmouth v. Columbia v. Yale, earning a mark of 11-1.75/3.40m (Jan. 21) … Personal best in pole vault at the IC4A/ECAC, placing 5th with a PR mark of 11-6.25/3.51m (Mar. 3-5) … (OTF): PV with mark of 10-0/3.05m, placing ninth at Monmouth (Mar. 24-25)

2019-20 (Sophomore): (XC) Posted a personal record time and best finish of the season with a 10th place finishing time of 19:21.7 in the 5K at the Mets Championships (Oct. 11) ... Clocked an 11th place finishing time of 19:59.5 in the 5K at the Stony Brook Wolfie Invitational (Sept. 7) ... Ran a 22:55.5 (64th) in the 6.17K at the Princeton Cross Country Invitational (Oct. 19). (Indoor) Competed in first, indoor season of career ... Clocked personal records in four events, 3,000-Meter Run (10:19.90/Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge [Jan. 23-25]); 1,000-Meter Run (3:04.00/UAlbany Winter Classic [Feb. 7]); One Mile Run (5:15.68/Fastrack National Invite [Feb. 14]) and the 800-Meter Dash (2:26.40/Armory Last Chance [Feb. 21]). (Outdoor) Season Canceled.

2018-19 (First-Year): (XC) Ran 6K at Paul Short Brown (Sept. 29) in a PR time of 25:17.5 ... Had the second best finish by a Lion, finishing in 18th at the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Championship (Oct. 12) with a time of 19:45.2. (Indoor) Ran the One Mile Race in three different competitions, Dartmouth-Yale-Columbia (Jan. 18), Villanova Invitational (Feb. 2) and the Fastrack National Invite (Feb. 8) ... Set a PR in the Mile at the Fastrack National Invite, finishing with a time of 5:19.50 ... Recorded best finish in the Mile at the Dartmouth-Yale-Columbia meet, finishing 13th with a time of 5:36.14. (Outdoor) Recorded the season's third best time by a Lion in the 2,000-Meter Steeplechase, finishing eighth with a time of 7:24.99 at the Penn Challenge (Mar. 23).

Personal: Former distance runner and cross country athlete at Seaholm High School in Michigan … A team captain twice in cross country and her senior year on the track, she earned seven varsity letters as a prep … Picked up a pair of all-state honors in cross country her junior and senior year … Ran career bests of 5:02 in the 1,600m, 11:11 in the 3,200m, and 18:09 on the 5K cross country course … Also a gymnast in high school, qualifying for state in 2017 and 2018 … The daughter of Michele and Brock Rooney.


Career Bests

6.17K (XC)
- 22:55.5
Princeton Cross Country Invitational - Oct. 19, 2019
6K (XC) - 25:17.5
Paul Short Gold - Sept. 29, 2018
5K (XC) - 19:21.7
Metropolitan Intercollegiate Championships - Oct. 11, 2019
3,000m Run (Indoor) - 10:19.90
Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge - Jan. 23-25, 2020
2,000m Steeplechase (Outdoor) - 7:23.99
Penn Challenge - Mar. 23, 2019
One Mile Run (Indoor) - 5:15.68
Fastrack National Invite - Feb. 14, 2020
1,000m (Indoor) - 3:04.00
UAlbany Winter Classic - Feb. 7, 2020
800m (Indoor) - 2:26.40
Armory Last Chance - Feb. 21, 2020

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First Year

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  • 2019-20Sophomore

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  • 2021-22Junior

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  • 2022-23Senior

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