Performance List
Senior Year (2011-12): Outdoor Track: Competed in distance events for the Raiders ... named to the Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Academic All-Patriot League Team ... also named the Colgate Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... ran a personal-best time of 37:03.66 in the 10,000-meter run and finished fourth at the Patriot League Championships ... also posted a season-best time of 17:22.74 in the 5,000-meter run the Patriot League Championships ...
Indoor Track: did not compete.
Junior Year (2010-11): Outdoor Track: Competed in distance events for the Raiders ... named to the Capital One Academic All-District Team ... ran a personal and school-record time of 9:49.02 in the 3,000-meter run at the Cornell Spring Invitational ... also posted a season-best time of 16:43.61 in the 5k at the Stanford Invitational ... recorded a personal-best time of 37:07.86 in the 10k at the Patrtiot League Outdoor Championship ...
Indoor Track: named to the all-Patriot League first team and the Patriot League Female Scholar Athlete of the Year ... ran a personal-best time of 4:48.44 in the mile at the Patriot League Indoor Championship ... also won the Patriot League title and set a new school-record time of 2:52.37 in the 1,000-meter run ... was a member of the Distance Medley Relay team that won the Patriot League title with a school-record time of 11:58.26.
Sophomore Year (2009-10): Outdoor Track: Competed in mainly distance events for the Raiders. At the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic, she ran a season-best in the 800m with a time of 2:16.22 and a season-best of 4:36.04 in the 1,500m also at the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic. At the Princeton Sam Howell Friday Night Races she ran the best time in the Patriot League of 16:35.61 in the 5,000m. At the Patriot League Championships, DeRoo ran a season-best time of 37:42.09 in the 10,000m.
Indoor Track: Competed in primarily distance events for the Raiders. DeRoo ran a season-best time of 4:58.95 in the 1 Mile at the Colgate University Class of 32 Invitational and in the 3,000m she ran the second best time in the Patriot League with a 9:57.27 at the Patriot League Championships. DeRoo Captured first place in the Patriot League Championships in the 5,000m run with a season-best time of 17:19.85.
Freshman Year (2008-09): Outdoor Track: Competed primarily in distance events. DeRoo ran a season-best of 18:55.50 in the 5,000-meter run at the Bison Classic.
Indoor Track: Posted a season-best time of 5:14.61 in the mile at the Class of '32 Invitational and posted a season-best time of 10:25.32 in the 3,000-meter run at the Syracuse Invitational.
Before Colgate: Earned four letters in cross country and five total in indoor and outdoor track at Newtown High School. DeRoo helped lead the Nighthawks to four consecutive South West Conference championships. Her cross country team complied a record of 51 wins and one loss during her scholastic career while her track team went 49-4 during her four seasons. DeRoo earned all-New England cross country honors in 2007 and garnered all-state accolades in both track and cross country as a senior. She was voted first-team all-conference in 2006 and 2007 and ran a personal-best in the 5k of 19:11 as a senior. DeRoo timed in at 5:02 for a personal-best in the mile and 10:58 for the 3,200. She served as a team captain as a senior and was voted the team's Most Valuable Player for three consecutive years in cross country and track. DeRoo was a member of the National Honor Society.
Personal: Elise Patricia DeRoo was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Donald and Linda DeRoo. Her brother Scott ran track and cross country at Colgate. Her major is molecular Biology.
