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Jillian Richardson

Jillian Richardson

  • Award
    Bobcats of the Week
  • Week Of
    11/25/2019
  • Sport
    Women's Cross Country
  • Bio
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With only three runners remaining from its NCAA team a year ago, the Bates women's cross country team finished an improbably great 2019 season at the NCAA Division III Championships on Saturday by placing 14th out of 32 teams, the team's best-ever national finish.

First-year Jillian Richardson (Auburn, Maine) led the Bobcats for the fifth time in six races this season, finishing 59th out of 280 runners in 22:29.6 over 6 kilometers. Richardson trailed only six other first-year runners, and was 1.1 seconds behind the 55th-place runner, Suffolk senior Emily Manfra. Richardson was less than 16 seconds outside of the top 40 individuals, who receive All-America honors.

Bates' five previous team berths to the NCAA Championships occurred in 1995 (placing 18th out of 21 teams), 1997 (15th/21), 2012 (19th/32), 2016 (19th/32) and 2018 (17th/32). The 2018 team included four now-graduated seniors: Sarah Rothmann, Wendy Memishian and its top two runners in Katie Barker and Ayden Eickhoff.



Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
2/4/2019 John Rex Men's Track and Field
1/28/2019 Dylan Muldoon Men's Squash
1/28/2019 Ayden Eickhoff Women's Track and Field
1/21/2019 Nick Lynch Men's Basketball
1/21/2019 Katie Hughes Women's Track and Field
1/14/2019 Ryan Nealis Men's Track and Field
1/14/2019 Emmy Daigle Swimming and Diving
1/7/2019 Meghan Graff Women's Basketball
1/7/2019 Jeff Spellman Men's Basketball
12/10/2018 Erin Bucki Swimming and Diving
12/10/2018 Alexander Ignatov Swimming and Diving
12/3/2018 Caroline Sweeney Swimming and Diving
12/3/2018 Alex Bedard Swimming and Diving
11/26/2018 Julia Middlebrook Women's Basketball
11/26/2018 Kody Greenhalgh Men's Basketball
11/19/2018 James Jones Men's Cross Country
11/19/2018 Katie Barker Women's Cross Country
11/12/2018 Bart Rust Men's Cross Country
11/12/2018 Ayden Eickhoff Women's Cross Country
11/5/2018 Julia Panepinto Women's Volleyball
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