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2022 Women's Cross Country Roster

Sydney Jenko

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Parma Padua Franciscan
  • Hometown Brunswick, OH
  • Major Psychology

Biography

TFRRS Profile

Awards & Honors
  • 2022 Academic All-OAC
  • 2021 USTFCCCA Academic All-American
  • 2021 Academic All-OAC
  • 2019 All-Region
  • 2019 OAC Freshman of the Year
  • 2019 First Team All-OAC
  • 2019 USTFCCCA Academic All-American
  • OAC Athlete of the Week: 9/19/19
2021 Cross Country 
  • Made her season debut with an impressive 4th place finish at the OAC Championships. Jenko earned first team All-OAC honors and helped lead her team to the first back-to-back conference wins in program history (10/30)
  • Jenko placed 30th (22:53.7) at the NCAA DIII Great Lakes Regional Championships, earning All-Region honors and helping her team to back-to-back National Championship appearances (11/13)
  • Finished 78th amongst 292 overall runners at the NCAA DIII National Championships in an impressive time of 22:18.0 (11/30). As a 2x National Qualifier, Jenko improved by 42 seconds from her 2019 time.

2019 Cross Country 
  • Finished second in the opening meet at the Sudeck Classic Stampede with a time of 14:47.7 just 0.7 seconds shy of the leader (8/31)
  • Finished first for John Carroll and 10th overall in a 3.9k race at Pre-Nationals with a time of 14.13 (10/5) 
  • Ran a personal best 21:44.9 time, placing sixth and helping the Blue Streaks finish 3rd at the Oberlin Inter-Regional rumble (10/19)
  • Finished first in the OAC Championships with a time of 22:28.7 helping her team to an overall first place team victory (11/2) 
  • Placed ninth in the DIII Great Lakes Regional Championship with a time of 21:39.85 to help her team to an overall first place finish (11/16) 
  • Finished 121st with a time of 23:00.7 at the DIII National Championships, helping her team to an overall 21st place finish (11/23) 
High School
  • Ran Cross Country for Justin Meeson at Padua Franciscan High School
  • Member of Spanish Club, Astronomy Club and MedTrack
Academics & Personal
  • Daughter of Larry and Sherry Jenko
  • Born in Omaha, NE

Historical Player Information

  • 2019First Year

  • 2020-21Sophomore

    5'2"
  • 2021Junior

    5'2"
  • 2022Senior

    5'2"
  • 2022Graduate Student

    5'2"

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