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Abbey D'Agostino
Position: Distance
Year: Junior
Hometown: Topsfield, Mass.
High School: Masconomet Regional HS
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Sophomore (2011-12):

  • 5,000-Meter NCAA Outdoor Champion
  • Four-Time First-Team All-America (Cross Country, Indoor DMR, Indoor 3,000 Meters, Outdoor 5,000 Meters [Five-Time All-American in College Total])
  • Eighth in Indoor 3,000 Meters at Nationals
  • Anchor of Third-Place DMR at Indoor Nationals
  • Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Champion
  • USTFCCCA Northeast Regional Champion in Cross Country
  • USTFCCCA Northeast Regional Female Athlete of the Year in Cross Country
  • USTFCCCA Northeast Female Athlete of the Year Champion in Outdoor Track
  • Winner of Dartmouth's Class of 1976 Award - Top Female Student-Athlete of the Year for 2011-12
  • Indoor Ivy League Heptagonal Champion in the Mile
  • Outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Champion in 1,500 Meters and 3,000 Meters
  • Outdoor Heptagonal Female Athlete of the Meet
  • 2012 USTFCCCA Outdoor Track Female Scholar Athlete of the Year
  • Six-Time Recipient of the DartmouthSports.com Female Athlete of the Week Award in 201-12
  • Set and re-set numerous Dartmouth Program Records in 2011-12, Finishing the Year with Six Current Marks
  • 2012 Olympic Trials Participant in the 5,000 Meters

    CROSS COUNTRY - Came back to compete in her first cross country season and proved to be one of the top harriers in the nation...Earned First-Team All-American honors with a third-place showing in the NCAA Championship Meet...Became the first Dartmouth woman to win Heps since 1997 when she won the Ivy League individual crown with a 21:58.2 at West Windsor Fields in a snow storm...Won the NCAA Northeast Regional meet in Buffalo by 14 seconds over the second-place finisher, earning all-region honors and an automatic berth to Nationals in the process...Named the USTFCCCA Cross Country Northeast Region Women's Athlete of the Year...Named a USTFCCCA Division I Cross Country All-Academic Honoree for her work in the classroom...Earned Academic All-Ivy honors for the fall season... INDOOR - Earned her second First-Team All-American recognition with an eighth-place showing in the 3,000 meters at Nationals in Boise...Part of Dartmouth's DMR team that finished third in the nation at the 2012 NCAA Championship, collecting her another First-Team All-American accolade...Won the 3,000 meters at Heps with a 4:46.81 in the finals at Cornell's Barton Hall...Won the mile at Heps in 4:46.81...Took second place in the 5,000 meters...Opened the indoor season with a program record in the mile at home in a meet that featured Yale and Columbia, running a 4:38.44 to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championship...Broke that record just a week later with a 4:37.41 in the mile at BU's Terrier Invitational...Helped Dartmouth's DMR break the old record by more than 11 seconds at the Armory in New York City, finishing the race in 11:05.67...In her second meet of the season at BU, D'Agostino surpassed the program record in the 3,000 meters by more than 12 seconds, finishing the race in 9:02.15 at the Valentine Invitational...At the Last Chance Meet at the Armory, she and the other members of the DMR automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships with another school record of 11:00.67...OUTDOOR - Became the first Dartmouth women ever to win an individual national championship when she won the 5,000 meters at Drake Stadium at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championship in 16:11.34...That national championship was the first for the Dartmouth track & field program since 1997 for either the men or the women...Her national championship performance earned her yet another First-Team All-American honor...Ran a personal best of 15:19.98 in the finals of the 5,000 meters at the 2012 US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., finishing fifth and missing out on a trip to London by two-tenths of a second, while surpassing the Olympic 'A' Standard by two-hundredths of a second...Won her heat and was the top qualifier after the semifinals after the first day of competition at the Olympic Trials...Named the 2012 USTFCCCA Northeast Region Female Track Athlete of the Year...For her work in the classroom and on the track, she was named the 2012 USTFCCCA National Female Outdoor Scholar Athlete of the Year...Was honored with the Female Athlete of the Meet Award at 2012 Outdoor Heps at Penn's Franklin Field...Won the Heps crown in the 3,000 meters, doing so in a meet record 9:24.64...Also claimed the top spot in the 1,500 meters in a Heps record 4:17.90...She set the record the day before during qualifiers with a 4:19.93 on the first day in Philadelphia...Won her heat by more than seven seconds in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA East Regional in Jacksonville, running a 16:15.35...Running at Mt. Sac in April, she set a then-PR and Dartmouth record in the 5,000 meters of 15:23.35, finishing second overall in a field of professional runners, breaking her own mark in the vent by 17 seconds and meeting the Olympic 'B' Standard...The recipient of the Class of 1976 Award, presented to the outstanding female athlete of the year at Dartmouth's annual Celebration of Athletic Excellence...Awarded the program's Excellence Award at the team's year-end banquet...Part of the 4x1,5000-meter relay team that set a new school record at the 2012 Penn Relays with a 17:44.95 to finish fourth, breaking the old mark by 12 seconds...Set a Dartmouth record in the 1,500 meters at Bentley's Twilight Meet in mid-May with a 4:16.15.
Freshman (2010-11): After missing the cross country season due to injury, D'Agostino had one of the best freshman seasons in the history of Dartmouth track & field ... finished third at the the NCAA Championships in the 5,000 meters with a Big Green and Ivy record time of 15:40.69 ... the third-place finish earned her first team USTFCCCA All-America honors ... won the 5,000 meters at Outdoor Heps ... part of the distance medley relay team which set a school record at the Penn Relays with a time of 11:16.02.

Before Dartmouth: Was a four-year letter winner in cross country and track at Masconomet Regional High School ... captained her track and cross country teams her senior year ... in her junior year, she won the MSTCA Bay State Championship ... holds her school record for the mile run from her sophomore year in track ... outside of athletics, she is a member of the Spanish club, National Honor Society, and an active member of her local parish.

Personal: Abbey is the daughter of Eric and Donna D'Agostino and she has two sisters ... her mother Donna ran track and cross country for UMass-Dartmouth.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE RECORD HOLDER
1 Mile Indoor - 4:38.44 - Yale/Columbia Meet - 1/21/12

3000M - 9:02.15 - Valentine's - 2-11-12
DMR - 11:05.67 - The Armory - 2-3-12 (Alexi Pappas, Megan Krumpoch, Christina Supino, Abbey D'Agostino)
5,000M 15:19.98 set at Olympic Trials 6/28/12

2011-12 Highs
Indoor
  Outdoor  
Mile
4:38.44 Yale/Columbia - 1-21-12*    
3000m 9:02.15 Valentine's - 2-11-12*    
DMR 11:05.67 The Armory - 2-03-12*    
5K     15:19.98 Olympic Trials - 6/28/12*
3K     9:24.64 Heps - 5/6/12
1500m     4:16.15 Twilight* - 5/12/12
4x1,500m    

17:44.95

Penn Relays* - 4/27/12
    * Dartmouth Record    

2010-2011 Highs

Indoor: Outdoor:
3K: 9:36.62 (ECAC - 3-5-11) 5K: 15:40.69 (NCAA 6/10/11)
Mile: 4:57.83 (Terrier - 1-28-11) 1500m: 4:24.01 (UNH - 4-9-11)
   

2010-11 Relays
Outdoor:  Vailas, Tanner, Supino & D'Agostino
DMR:  11:16.02 (SR)
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