Gracie Whelan

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Charlotte, N.C.
High School:
Providence Day

All-Time Results & PR

2021 Outdoor: Won both the 100m (11.91w) and 200m (24.97) against Providence … Her time of 11.91 in the 100m ranks sixth all-time …Took second in both the 200m (24.65w) and 4x100 (47.25) at the UConn Northeast Invite … Ran a personal best 12.32 in the 100m at the Ocean State Invitational while claiming first … Also won the 4x100 (48.86) at the Ocean State Invitational.

2020-21 Indoor: Earned Academic All-Ivy honors ... Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2020 Outdoor: Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20 Indoor: First Team All-Ivy (400m) … Academic All-Ivy ... won the 400m and competed in the 4x400m relay at the Ivy League Championship … broke the school record in the 4x400m relay (3:40.80) at the BU Valentine Invite … personal best in the 400m (54.61) at the BU Valentine Invitational … set a PR in the 200m (24.97) at the Columbia Challenge … personal best in the 300m (40.12) at the Alden Invite … part of the winning 4x400m relay at Beantown Challenge and Penn 8-Team Select.

2019 Outdoor: Ran a personal-record 200m (25.32) for fifth and ran the 4x400 for first at the Ocean State Invitational … Crossed the line first in the 4x400 at the Minuteman Invitational … Personal-record performance at the 400m (56.10) and a sixth-place 4x400 finish at the Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Championships … Also ran in the Larry Ellis Invitational and Black & Gold Invitational.

2018-19 Indoor: Kicked off the season with a first-place finish in the 200m and a second-place finish in the 4x400 … placed first in the 4x400 at the John Thomas Terrier Classic … Placed seventh in the 4x440 and the 400 at the Ivy League Indoor Track & field Championships … Also ran in the David Hemery Valentine Invitational, New England Indoor Track & Field Invitational, Sorlein Invitational, and the Beantown Challenge.

2018 Outdoor: Placed 13th in the 400 meters (56.67) and third in the 4x400 meters at the Ivy League Championship … won the 400 meters at the Brown Springtime Invite … fourth in the 200 meters (25.57) and third in the 400 meters at the Ocean State Invite.

2017-18 Indoor: Started her season with a second-place finish in the 200 meters at the 32^nd Brown University Alden Invitational with a time of 26.43… set a personal record in the 400 meters at the NEICAAA Indoor Track and Field Championship with a time of 57.51… helped her 4x400 meter relay place fifth at the Ivy League Indoor Track and Field Championship.

Before Brown: Played volleyball and ran track at Providence Day School in Charlotte … three-time 400m state champion … two-time 4x400 Penn Relays Independent School Champion … 2017 South Charlotte Track Athlete of The Year ... Harvard Book Award Recipient … Graduated Cum Laude … National AP Scholar … National Merit Commended Scholar.

Personal: Daughter of Jack Whelan, who ran track and played football at Amherst, and Patricia Whelan, who played tennis at Davidson … has one older sister, Sarah, who ran track at Amherst … hobbies include reading and hiking.