Notre Dame looks to defend their championship titles.
2012 Cross Country Season:Ran in three meets during the cross country season ... opened campaign by winning the 5K JV race out of 104 runners at the National Catholic Championship (18:04.7) ... followed that performance up with a 12th place finish out of 116 runners at the 5K Notre Dame Invitational (18:02) ... closed year by taking 22nd out of 107 runners in the 6K open race at the Wisconsin Invitational (21:38).
AS A FRESHMAN: Ran in three cross country meets during the fall season ... opened the year at the 5K Crusader Invitational by finishing sixth out of 81 runners (18:38.1) ... followed up with an 11th-place finish out of 105 runners in the 5K race at the National Catholic Championships (17:48) ... also ran in the 6K "B" race at the Wisconsin Invitational ... competed in 13 meets during the indoor/outdoor track and field season ... gathered in five first-place finishes and 10 top-five finishes ... helped the Fighting Irish score four points in the 1,000m run during the BIG EAST Indoor Championships finishing fifth (2:49.21) ... ran career best times in the mile (4:53.95) and the 1,000m (2:48.94) at the Notre Dame Meyo Invitational ... added a personal best in the 1,500m (4:26.67) at the Polytan Invitational finishing sixth in a field of 29 ... concluded, the season by running a season high in the 800m dash (2:09.02) during BIG EAST Outdoor Championship ... named a BIG EAST Academic All-Star ... earned a track and field monogram.
HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Emily Sproson Frydrych graduated from St. Mark's High School in the spring of 2011 ... lettered all four years in cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field ... won state championships on the track in the 800 and 1,600-meter runs and ran a leg of the 4x800m-meter relay as a senior ... holds school records in the 1,600 meters (4:53.47), 800 meters (2:14.41), 3,200 meters (10:53.6) and the 5K in cross country (18:27) ... earned numerous all-county and all-state citations throughout career ... named team captain as a senior in all three sports, and as a junior in out- door track and field ... selected as secretary for school's National Honors Society ... born to Dan and Wendy Frydrych in Newark, Del. ... has an older sister, Sarah ... sister, Sarah, ran cross country and track and field at St. Francis (Pa.) University ... enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters.