‼️ FAZIO ADVANCES ‼️
Based on being impeded & subsequently tripped to the ground by another runner who was DQ'd under rule 15.5-3a in the semi-final, Brooke Fazio will ADVANCE to the NCAA Championship Final in the 800M.
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We welcome Rachel Helbling (South Fayette HS, PA) to the Spider family!
Rachel is a 400m specialist with a personal best of 55.68...She has finished first or second in 17 of 21 career races in the 400m outdoors...Two-time district champion and two-time state finalist
#signingday
600M |
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RACHEL HELBLING breaks the School Record to WIN the 600M in 1:30.97! Helbling’s performance breaks UR Athletics HOF great Josephine White’s record of 1:31.10. White’s 1982 record is one of the oldest in the Spiders record book.
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Spiders DMR Team of Claire Brown, Rachel Helbling, Kendra Smither and Lily Snow after 4th place at the Penn State National Open. Their mark of 11:43.48 currently takes the top spot within the
@atlantic10
.
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The New School Record Holder’s in the 4X400M after running 3:43.38! Team members Rachel Helbling (55.6), Tamar Accius (56.6), Maria Acosta (55.5) and Brooke Fazio (55.4).
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Welcome Morgan Lyons (Ridge HS, NJ)!
- 4 time HS All-American
- 4X800M champions five times at NJ Meet of Champions (indoor and outdoor)
- Placed in the 4X800M, 800M, and 4X400M at 2020 Indoor Track & Field Meet of Champions
- PR of 2.11.1 in the 800M
- PR of 56.66 in the 400M
Coach Taylor with Ave Grosenheider after she set the school record running 9:30.00 to place 5th in the 2019 ECAC Championships...her mark breaks legendary 3KSC All-American Nicol Trayor’s 2012 mark of 9:32.20.
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Brooke Fazio becomes the first Spider since Heather Roush (Javelin), Nicol Traynor (3000m Steeplechase) and Amy VanAlstine (5000m) in 2011 to compete at the
#NCAATF
Finals.
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🔗
400M | Rachel Helbling wins the event in an open PB of 54.02. 800M specialist, Maria Acosta places 3rd (55.70), also a PB in the open event. The mark moves Helbling to
#2
All-Time for the Spiders, is a
#1
ranking in the A10 Conference,
#12
NCAA East Region,
#23
NCAA.
We welcome Kendra Smither (J.R. Tucker HS, VA) to the🕷Spider family🕷
Kendra is a MD specialist with a personal best of 2:15 in the 800m. Finished 3rd in the outdoor 800m and 4th in the Indoor 1600m at the 2017 5A State Championships
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#runRVA
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Rachel Helbling and Brooke Fazio:
Winners of 3 consecutive
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Fund Athlete of the Year awards…19
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Championships and 15 school records combined…Qualified to the NCAA National Championships a combined 6 times.
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Did you know? Princeton Review Ranks Richmond’s Athletic Facilities No. 10 In Country. And that's before the new Fred Hardy Track, Turf within Robins Stadium and several other additions in the past year. Plus,
@SpiderAthletics
is still building!
Take a look at the layout for the new Fred Hardy Track within Robins Stadium on the University of Richmond campus! This beauty will be completed this summer by August 1, 2019.
Acosta-2:05.17 and Fazio-2:06.52
✔️William & Mary stadium 800M record
✔️1-2 in the Colonial Relays
✔️2 outdoor PR’s
✔️
#5
and 11 in NCAA East Region
✔️# 8 and 19 in NCAA
✔️top 5 -ranked 800m duo in NCAA (currently 4th)
✔️✔️good day in Williamsburg
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Rachel Helbling and Jacob Gilyard were honored with the prestigious “Spider Athletic Fund Athletes of the Year” recognition.
Helbling’s achievements are countless, including a 2022
#1
NCAA Year End Ranking in the 500M. At the time her mark ranked
#4
in the World.
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Congrats again to the A-10 Most Outstanding Rookie Performer, Stuart Terrill, A-10 Coach of the Year Steve Taylor and of course, the Atlantic 10 champion men's cross country team.
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400M | Rachel Helbling sets an indoor PB of 54.77 for 3rd in the event. Improves upon her
@atlantic10
#1
ranking of 55.97 run at the Brant Tolsma Invite earlier this winter.
Congratulations to FR Lily Snow, SO Rachel Helbling, FR Kate McAndrew and SR Claire Brown for defending the UR title in the Distance Medley Relay for a third-straight year at the
#A10ITF
Championship!
Together they finished with a time of 11:47.39.
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400M Trials | Rachel Helbling continues her amazing year…She wins sections 1 of the 400M trials to advance to the final. Her 54.18 breaks the
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@SpiderAthletics
School Record!!!
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4x800M | 🕷Kendra Smither, Kayla O’Connell, Kate McAndrew and Brooke Fazio break the
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@SpiderAthletics
School Record running 8:44.69 in the
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Championships prelim. Their time ranks as the 3rd fastest in the NCAA this year!
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A10 4x800M | Spiders🕷win the 4X800M with another
@atlantic10
Indoor Championship Record and also break the URI Mackal Field House Record—>Smither (217.00), Acosta (214.34), Fazio (211.29), Brown (217.30)= 8:59.91.
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#oneRichmond
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That’s a wrap from the Clemson Invitational where the Spiders ran in 2022 with lots of PB’s. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”
For all those that came and watched us compete today, THANK YOU! We appreciate all the support you give us on and off the course.
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#OneRichmond
Did you miss the Spiders 4x800 (8:34.14) of Kate McAndrew, Brooke Fazio, Kendra Smither and Rachel Helbling setting a new program record in the Women's 4x800 Championship of America at the 126th running of the Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania's iconic Franklin Field?
Trey Burleson on his was to running a personal best 4:12.43 in the Mile at the 2019 IC4A Indoor Track & Field Championships.
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📷: Johnny Hogue
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East Prelim
Brooke Fazio collects a new UR program and personal record with a fourth-place time in the first quarterfinal, 2:02.73!
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4x800 Relay
#A10WOTF
A-10 CHAMPIONS!
Richmond wins 🥇 with a time of 8:53.78!
K. Smither - 2:14.51
M. Acosta - 2:11.46
K. McAndrew - 2:16.41
K. O'Connell - 2:11.42
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4x400 Relay
#A10WOTF
A-10 CHAMPIONS!!!
Richmond wins 🥇 the 4x400 relay with a UR program record time of 3:41.75!
Kayla Woods, Rachel Helbling, Kamryn Ross and Brooke Fazio team up to best the 4x400 mark from the 2021 Raleigh Relays!.
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The Spider 🕷 team of Rachel Helbling, Maria Acosta, Tamar Accius and Brooke Fazio set a program record of 3:43.56 in the 4x400m relay to win the Duke Invitational.
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5K | Caroline Robelen places 2nd in a PB of 17:19.34...Madison Trippett places 7th in a lifetime best of 17:46.19 and Rebecca Fagan was just of her PB running 18:40.77.