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2025 Women's Cross Country Roster

Carissa Flynn

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Hop Bottom, Pa.
  • High School Mountain View

Biography

Career Highlights
• One-Time PSAC Championship Qualifier

Personal: Daughter of Melissa and Craig Flynn … Majoring in Exercise Science.

2025 (Outdoor): Competed at four meets primarily in the 10,000-meters … Qualified for the PSAC Championships, placing 18th in 40:39.02 … Ran the 10,000-meters at the Bison Outdoor Classic in a season-best time of 39:41.95 … Opened year by completing the 1,500-meters in 5:06.29 at the Weaver Invite for a ninth-place finish.

2025 (Indoor): Competed at four meets primarily in the 3,000-meters … Season-best time of 10:46.51 came as part of a fourth-place finish at the Mount Union Tune-Up … Nearly broke the 11-minute plateau at the SPIRE Indoor Games, finishing in 11:00.26 … Opened year with respective times of 11:02.16 and 11:08.97 at the Ashland Invite and the Jud Logan Light Giver Invitational … Also competed in the mile on two occasions with best time of 5:30.76 occurring at the Jud Logan Light Giver Invitational.

2024 (XC): Competed in seven meets ... Crossed the line in the SRU top five four times ... Earned second team All-PSAC with 28th in the PSAC Championships (6k) in 23:35.6 ... Ran a season-best 22:21.6 for 6k and took 40th in the Atlantic Region Championships ... Placed 237th at the NCAA Championships (6k) in 24:35.4 ... Opened the season at the Doug Watts Open with 10th in 19:25.3 for 5k ... Took 36th at the YSU NCAA Collegiate Inagural Alumni XC Meet (5k) in 20:21.8 ... Placed 240th at the Lehigh Paul Short Run in 25:04.9 for 6k ... Earned 12th at the Fighting Scots Invite (6k) in 24:10.2 .. Earned All-Academic honors from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
 
High School: Lettered four times in cross country and four times in track & field at Mountain View High School … A three-time all-state honoree in cross country … Also earned all-region accolades in both track and cross country … A member of the National Honor Society.

Historical Player Information

  • 2024Freshman

  • 2025Sophomore