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Vanessa Paolella

  • Events Distance
  • Class 2021
  • Hometown Dingmans Ferry, Pa.
  • High School Delaware Valley

Biography

Results

Vanessa Paolella | Voices from the Class of 2021

Career: One of 50 Senior Scholar Award-winners, who have participated in varsity sports for four years and maintained a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or better. 

2021

Outdoor Highlights:
NESCAC Spring All-Academic selection.

Indoor Highlights: NESCAC Winter All-Academic selection.

2020

Indoor Highlights: Won All-America honors in the mile run.... Ran a lifetime-best mile (5:02.66) and sixth fastest in Bates indoor track history at the Tufts Last Chance Meet (March 7).... Placed seventh with a lifetime-best 1000 meters (3:01.84) and tenth fastest in Bates indoor track history at the New England Division III Indoor Championships (Feb. 29).... Placed fourth in the mile (5:10.67) and fourth in the 1000 meters (3:10.36) at the Maine State Meet (Feb. 8).... Won the 3,000 meters with a career-best time of 10:38.10 at the USM Invitational (Jan. 25).... Won the 1,000 meters in 3:05.19 at the Bates Invitational (Jan. 18).

2019

Outdoor Highlights: Won the 1,500-meter run in 4:45.94 at the Aloha Relays.... Took fourth place in the 3,000 meters (11:07.64) at the UNH Wildcat Invitational.

Indoor Highlights: Helped the Bates women's track and field team place second in the distance medley relay at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in a team-record time of 11:43.51, for the best national finish by a relay team in Bates athletics history.... Placed eighth in the 1,000 meters (3:02.33) at the New England Division III Indoor Championships.... Ran the 1,000 meters in 3:02.14 at the Valentine Invitational, just 0.01 outside Bates' top-10 all-time performance list.... Won the 1,000 meters in 3:03.17 and finished third in the mile (5:08.66) at the Maine state championship.... Helped Bates win the 4x800 relay in a time of 10:09.53 at the Bates Invitational.

2018

Outdoor Highlights: Helped Bates place fourth in the 4x800 relay (9:42.08) at the New England Division III Outdoor Championships (May 5).... Helped Bates take seventh in the 4x800 relay (9:29.85) at the NESCAC Championships (April 28).... Took third with a career-best time of 18:24.72 in the 5K at the Aloha Relays (April 21).

Indoor Highlights: Took second in the mile (5:38.22) at the Maine State Open (Feb. 24).... Placed fourth in the 1000 meters (3:09.53) and helped Bates second in the 4x800 relay (10:06.10) at the Maine State Meet (Feb. 2).... Won the 1,000 meters (3:07.25) at the Bates Invitational (Jan. 20).

Historical Player Information

  • 2018

  • 2019

  • 2020Junior

  • 2021Senior