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2025 Women's Cross Country Roster

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Sydney Leitner

  • Height 5-4
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Yorktown
  • Hometown Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Biography

Junior Year (2024-25)
  • Competed in five cross country meets
  • Earned all-conference honors for the third straight season with a fifth-place finish – out of 83 runners – at the America East Championships (Nov. 2)
  • The America East Women’s Performer of the Week on Sept. 17
  • Finished 74th out of 267 runners at the NCAA Northeast Meet (Nov. 15)
  • Won the Vermont Fall Foliage – which featured 113 runners (Oct. 20)
  • Took fifth place out of 71 finishers at the Iona Meet of Champions (Sept. 13)
  • Was 76th out 371 runners in the Gold Race at the Lehigh/Paul Short Run (Oct. 5)
  • The SUNY Chancellor's Award Winner in Women's Cross Country
  • Competed in five indoor meets and three outdoor meets 
  • Placed fourth in the 5,000 and seventh in the 3,000 at the America East Indoor Championships (Feb. 22-23)
  • Placed fourth in the 10,000 at the America East Outdoor Championships (May 2-4)
  • Was eighth in the 3,000 at the Penn State National Open (Jan. 31-Feb. 1)
  • Finished second in the mile at the Gulden Invitational (Jan. 25)
  • Was fourth in the 5,000 at the Colonial Relays (April 2-4)
  • Took third in the 1,500 at the Bucknell Outdoor Classic (April 12-14)
  • Member of the Fall 2024 AD Honor Roll (3.3 GPA or higher)

Sophomore Year (2023-24)
  • Competed in five cross country meets
  • Earned first-team all-conference honors for the second straight year with a fifth-place finish (out of 81 runners) at the America East Championships on Oct. 27
  • Named to the America East Cross Country All-Academic Team
  • Placed 94th overall out of 264 finishers at the NCAA Northeast Region Meet on Nov. 10
  • Placed a team-best fourth overall out of 116 runners at the Canisius Alumni Classic on Oct. 14
  • Competed in eight track & field meets
  • Placed third in the 10,000 at the America East Outdoor Championships
  • Earned All-Conference honors at the America East Outdoor Championships
  • Finished fifth in the 5,000 and was third in the 3,000 at the America East Indoor Championships
  • Named the America East Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week on April 9
  • Took second place in the 10,000 at the Colonial Relays (April 4-6)
  • Was 11th in the 5,000 at the Boston/Valentine’s Meet (Feb. 9-10)
  • Member of the America East Fall and Spring Commissioner's Honor Roll (3.5 GPA or above)
  • Member of the Fall and Spring AD Honor Rolls (3.3 GPA or above)
  • Earned the Binghamton Sports Medicine Department's Orthopedic Associates Scholarship Award, which is presented annually to one of its student trainers
Freshman Season (2022-23)
  • Competed in four cross country meets
  • Named first-team all-conference with a fifth-place finish at the America East Championships on Oct 29
  • The Most Outstanding Female Rookie at the America East Championships
  • Placed 41st overall at the NCAA Northeast Region Meet on Nov. 11
  • Was 75th overall at the Lehigh/Paul Short Run on Sept. 30
  • Took third-place overall at the Iona Meet of Champions on Sept. 16
  • Competed in 10 track & field meets
  • Earned all-conference honors with a third-place finish in the 10,000 at the America East Outdoor Championships (May 6-7)
  • Was fourth in the 5,000 and seventh in the 3,000 at the America East Indoor Meet (Feb. 18-19)
  • Placed fifth in the 5,000 at the ECAC Indoor Championships (March 3-5)
  • Won the 1,500 at the Colonial Relays (March 31-April 1)
  • Member of the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll (3.5 GPA or above) in both the fall and spring
  • Member of the Fall and Spring AD Honor Rol (3.3 GPA or above)

Before Binghamton
  • A three-time captain and team MVP at Yorktown
  • Placed sixth in the 3,000 at the 2022 New York State (NYS) Outdoor Track & Field Championships
  • Was third overall in the 5,000 at the 2022 New Balance National Outdoor Meet performances are
  • Finished 10th overall at the 2021 NYS Federation Cross Country Meet
  • Named All-NYS Federation in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track her senior year
  • A five-time All-NYS Section 1 honoree
  • Won the NYS Section 1 title in the 3,000 during the 2022 outdoor track season

Personal
  • Parents are David and Diane Leitner
  • A nursing major 
 
Top Times
3,000: 9:46.23
5,000: 17:01.49
10,000: 35:02.51

AE Major Awards
2022 Cross Country Most Outstanding Rookie

AE Cross Country All-Conference (3)
2022: 1st Team
2023: 1st Team
2024: 1st Team

AE Cross Country All-Academic (1)
2023

AE Track & Field All-Conference (2)
2023 Outdoor: 10,000
2024 Outdoor: 10,000

AE Weekly Awards (2)
AE Outdoor Track Performer of the Week: April 9, 2024
AE Cross Country Performer of the Week: Sept. 17, 2024

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Freshman

    5'4"
  • 2023Sophomore

    5'4"
  • 2024Junior

    5'4"
  • 2025Senior

    5'4"
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