Jaime Lord Named Liberty League Runner of the Year

2016 Nov 28

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete Jaime Lord of Stony Point 10980 has been recognized by the Liberty League, earning the conference's highest honor in women's cross country, the Runner of the Year, it has been announced.

For the second straight year, Lord (Stony Point, NY / North Rockland) earned NCAA All-America, finishing 19th out of 280 runners at the national championship meet in Louisville, Kentucky, and helping the team to an 18th-place finish. Additionally, she was the league's top individual finisher at the NCAA Atlantic Regional, finishing third in the field of 304. Prior to that, she was second individually (121 runners) at the Liberty League Championship Meet.

Lord, a four-time conference Performer of the Week, began the season placing 17th of 197 competitors at Vassar College and 10th of 278 at Williams College. She then won the Saratoga Invitational, which had 157 runners, and was eighth of 386 at Rowan University. Her best 5K time of the season came in her victory at Saratoga (17:30.7) and her best time in a 6K was at the Atlantic Regional (20:46.4), which was hosted by Rowan.

In addition to earning All-America, All-Region and All-League First Team, the aeronautical engineering major was also a Liberty League All-Academic honoree.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America's oldest technological research university. For nearly two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena-from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.