2009 Women's Cross Country

Kesley Ramsey
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Franklin Lakes, NJ
- High School:
- Ramapo
2010 Outdoor Track & Field: Won the 1,500mrace at the Brown Outdoor Invitational ... Was a member of the IvyChampionship 4x800m relay team (second consecutive Hepschampionships in that event), as well as the ECAC 4x800m relay teamthat was runnerup in the East ... Selected as an USATFCCCA AcademicAll-American.
2009-10 Indoor Track & Field: Ran an indoorpersonal best mile time of 4:54.79 at the Armory in New York City... Finished fourth at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship inthe mile with a time of 4:55.32.
Outdoor Personal Records:
800m - 2:11.63
1500m - 4:26.41 (4th on Brown all-time list)
4x800 - 8:45.65 (1st on Brown all-time list)
DMR - 11:16.55 (2nd on Brown all-time list)
Indoor Personal Records:
800m - 2:11.85 (7th on Brown all-time list)
1000m - 2:50.45 (3rd on Brown all-time list)
mile - 4:54.79
4x800 - 8:56.14 (4th on Brown all-time list)
DMR - 11:16.83 (2nd on Brown all-time list)
2009 Outdoor Track: Kesley has posted times of4:28 in the 1500 (9th all time) and 2:11 in the 800.
2008-2009 Indoor: In her sophomore indoorseason, Kesley posted times of 2:11 in the 800 (7th all time atBrown), 2:50 in the 1k (3rd all time), and 4:56 in the mile. Shecame in 4th place in the 800 and anchored the silver-medaling 4x800relay at the 2009 indoor Heptagonal Championships.
2008 Cross Country: Kesley was consistently oneof the top varsity runners. She won the U. Albany Invitational witha time of 17:42 for 5k, leading the squad to the team title ...Kesley was the third varsity finisher at Heps (18:21 for 5k) andhelped Brown clinch bronze.
2007-2008 Indoor: Kesley focused on the 800m... She posted times of 2:13 in the 800, 2:59 in the 1k, and 4:59in the mile ... At the indoor Heptagonal games of 2008 she finished7th in the 800 and led off the 4x800 relay to a 3rd place finish... She ran the 1200 leg of the record setting DMR at ECAC's,currently the 2nd fastest all time indoor DMR in school history. Inher first outdoor track season for Brown, Kesley focused on the1500 ... She posted times of 2:13 in the 800, 4:29 in the 1500, and4:57 in the mile ... Kesley ran the 1200 leg for the DMR in thechampionship race at Penn Relays, which is currently 2nd all timeat Brown ...She finished 6th place in the 1500 at outdoor Heps andanchored the 4x800 to a 4th place finish.
2007 Cross Country: Brown's fifth varsitycross-country runner ... She helped the team finish 3rd at theHeptagonal Championships at Van Cortland Park, posting a time of18:52 for 5k ... At Regionals, she was the 4th varsity finisher forBrown, helping them to be the top finishing Ivy League school inthe region (21:50 for 6k).
High School: Kesley ran for Ramapo High School:four seasons of track, three of cross country, and two of indoortrack ... Her senior year, Kesley was the league, county, and statesectional champion in cross country; she came in 4th place at herstate group meet ... Indoors, she was the league champion in the1600 and 3200; she was the county champion in the 800 and the 1600... She placed 2nd in the 800 at state groups and also in themile at the state meet of champions ... Outdoors, she anchored the2nd place finishing DMR at Penn relays ... She was the defendingleague, county, and sectional champion in the 800, 1600, and 3200... She placed 1st in the 800 at state groups, helping lead herschool to the team championship ... She finished 3rd in the 800 atthe state meet of champions ... She was named 1st team all NorthJersey and 2nd team All-State for all three seasons her senior year... Her high school personal records are 58 for the 400, 2:11for the 800, 4:54 for the 1600, 11:06 for the 3200, and 18:15 forcross country 5k ... In high school, she was named athlete of theyear twice by the Star Ledger and three times by theRecord newspapers. She was also named an NBIL scholarathlete ... Kesley has received the Bloustein Scholarship award andthe Zaccone Scholarship award. She was named Ramapo High School'sfemale athlete of the year in 2007.
Concentration: Psychology (Pre-Medicine)
Personal: Kesley is the daughter of Katrin andGreg Ramsey ... She has an older brother, Derek (Boston College'09), and a chocolate Labrador retriever named Maximus.