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2025-26 Women's Indoor Track & Field Roster

Lydia Valeriano

  • Event Distance
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • High School Northgate

Biography

Career Highlights
• 1x PSAC Championship Qualifier

Personal: Daughter of Pamela and Michael Valeriano ... Majoring in Exercise Science: Pre-PT ... Cousin, Jon Valeriano, is a Slippery Rock graduate. 

2025 (Outdoor): Competed at seven meets primarily in the 1,500-meters … Qualified for the PSAC Championships, placing 19th in 4:56.94 … Season-best 1,500-meter time of 4:50.63 resulted in a fourth-place finish at the John Papa Invite … Also ran the 5,000-meters on three occasions with top time of 18:52.31 netting a 10th-place finish at the Pushkin Invitational ... A PSAC Scholar-Athlete.

2025 (Indoor): Competed at five meets … Recorded season-best times in both the mile (5:26.87 / seventh) and 800-meters (2:31.63 / 14th) at the Mount Union Tune-Up … Recorded a pair of top-10 finishes at the Wuske Invite, placing seventh in the 800-meters (2:35.32) and eighth in the mile (5:35.94).

2024 (XC): Competed at five meets ... Ran a season-best 24:37.2 for 6k at the PSAC Championships and took 66th ... Opened the season at the Doug Watts Open with 21:52.6 for 5k ... Placed 70th at the YSU NCAA Collegiate Inagural Alumni XC Meet (5k) in 21:58.5 ... Took 361st at the Lehigh Paul Short Run (6k) in 26:22.1 ... Earned 18th at the Fighting Scots Invite (6k) in 24:58.

2024 (Outdoor): Competed at six meets in the 800-meters, 1,500-meters and 5,000-meters … Top performance of the year came at the John Papa Invitational with season-best marks in both the 1,500-meters (5:06.70 / ninth place) and the 800-meters (2:29.39 / 11th) … Opened outdoor campaign by placing 10th in a 61-runner field in the 1,500-meters at the Dr. Toms Alumni Invitational after clocking a 5:08.80 finish … Closed year by completing the 5,000-meters at the Walsh Invitational in a season-best time of 19:54.95 … A PSAC Scholar-Athlete.

2024 (Indoor): Competed in the mile at three events … Recorded a season-best time of 5:38.19 at the SPIRE Indoor Games … Opened year by taking 19th place in 5:46.26 at the Mount Union Wuske Open … Also clocked a time of 5:45.30 at the YSU Mid-Major Invite.

2023 (XC): Competed in three of seven meets … Opened year by running the Panther Opener (5k) in 22:29.7 … Top 5,000-meter course time of the season came at the Robert Morris Colonial Invitational in 21:43.66 … Made final appearance of the year at the Lock Haven Invitational “White” race, finishing the 6,000-meter course in 25:58.7 to place 73rd in the 168-runner field.

2023 (Outdoor): Competed at three meets in various events … Opened season by running the 1,500-meters in 5:29.18 and helping The Rock’s 4x800-meter relay team to a fifth-place finish at the Myrtle Beach Collegiate Challenge … Posted a 6:08.80 mile time (26th) at the Shamrock Invitational … Closed year at the Dave Labor Invitational by competing in the 800-meters (2:45.06 / 29th) and the 1,500-meters (5:36.78 / 50th).

2023 (Indoor): Competed at four meets, splitting time between the mile and 3,000-meters … Best mile time was 5:55.84 (25th) at the Jim Wuske Open … Finished the 3,000-meters at the Mount Union Tune-Up in a season-best time of 11:55.62 to take 12th place … Also competed in the mile (6:02.46) at the YSU Invitational and the 3,000-meters (12:17.81) at the YSU Mid-Major Invitational ... A PSAC Scholar-Athlete. 

2022 (XC): Competed at six meets … Posted a seventh-place showing, and was The Rock’s second finisher, after completing the “White” race at the LHU Invitational in a season-best time of 24:23.8 to finish seventh overall out of 118 runners … Closed year by running at the PSAC Championships, placing 75th in a 164-runner field following a time of 25:21.3 ... A PSAC Scholar-Athlete. 

High School: Lettered four years in cross country and track and field at Northgate High School ... 4x WPIAL medalist in cross country, 4x PIAA Cross Country state qualifier ... 4x WPIAL medalist in track and field ... 2x PIAA Track and Field state qualifier ... 2021 3200m Relay Champion ... Graduated as Valedictorian of the Northgate High School Class of 2022. 

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