Emily Sisson

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Emily Sisson
Emily Sisson (2019 London Marathon).jpg
Emily Sisson on 2019 London Marathon
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Born (1991-10-12) October 12, 1991 (age 29)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Height5 ft 2 in (157 cm)
Sport
SportTrack, long-distance running
Event(s)10,000 meters, Half Marathon
College teamProvidence Friars
ClubNew Balance
Turned pro2015
Coached byRay Treacy
Achievements and titles
World finals2017
10,000 m, 9th
2019
10,000 m, 10th
Personal best(s)
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Medal record
Representing  United States
Pan American Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2007 São Paulo 5000

Emily Sisson (born October 12, 1991) is a professional runner for New Balance in Phoenix, Arizona. Emily Sisson was 9th at the 2017 London IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships for 10,000 meters, and won the USATF road 10k Championships in 2016 and 5k in 2018. In the 2019 London Marathon, her first try at the distance, she placed 6th in a time of 2:23:08.[3] In December 2020, she ran the Valencia Half-Marathon in 1:07:26, narrowly missing the American record set by Molly Huddle in Houston on January 14, 2018. Sisson subsequently qualified to compete at the 2020 Olympics in the 10,000 m run, by coming in 1st place at the US Olympic Trials; she finished 10th at the event.

High school[]

Sisson is a four-time high school state champion in cross country while competing at the following Missouri State High School Activities Association and Nebraska School Activities Association schools: Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri, Omaha (Nebraska) Marian High School and Millard (Nebraska) North High School. Sisson won a 2 mile in 9:53 before running in her first Diamond League. She also ran a personal best 4:44.02 in the 2010 adidas Jim Ryun Girls Dream Mile at the New York Diamond League in June. At 2009 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, Sisson finished third in 17:19 behind Chelsey Sveinsson and winner Megan Goethals. [4] Sisson finished 29th at 2008 Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals.[5]

College[]

Sisson redshirted her first fall at University of Wisconsin before transferring to Providence College to train under Ray Treacy.

At the 2013 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, Sisson placed 7th in the 6000m with a time of 20:17.5. Sisson set an NCAA Division 1 indoor track and field 5000 meters record,[6][7][8][9] won three NCAA titles, and earned All-American and All-Big East honors eleven times. While competing for the Wisconsin Badgers during her freshman year, Sisson also earned All-Big Ten honors in cross country, and Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors in both the cross country and outdoor track seasons.

NCAA championships[]

Outdoor track and field[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing Wisconsin
2011 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Des Moines, Iowa 10th 5000 m 15:53.90[10]
Representing Providence College
2012 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Eugene, Oregon 4th 5000 m 16:18.24
2013 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Eugene, Oregon 6th 5000 m 15:58.40[11]
2015 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Eugene, Oregon 1st 5000 m 15:34.10[12]

Indoor track and field[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing Providence College
2012 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Nampa, Idaho 12th 3000 m 9:25.13[13]
2013 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Fayetteville, Arkansas 9th 5000 m 15:54.73[14]
2014 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Albuquerque, New Mexico 8th 5000 m 16:34.18[15]
2015 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Fayetteville, Arkansas 1st 5000 m 15:32.15[16]
3rd 3000 m 9:01.16[17]

Cross country[]

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing Wisconsin
2010 NCAA Cross Country Championships Terre Haute, Indiana 14th 20:28.3[18]
Representing Providence College
2012 NCAA Cross Country Championships Louisville, Kentucky 15th 20:00.1[19]
2013 NCAA Cross Country Championships Terre Haute, Indiana 7th 20:17.5[20]

Conference championships[]

Outdoor track and field[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing Wisconsin
2011 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships Iowa City, Iowa 3rd 10,000 m 35:07.35
3rd 5000 m 16:16.06
Representing Providence College
2012 Big East Outdoor Track and Field Championships Tampa, Florida 1st 5000 m 15:45.83
2013 Big East Outdoor Track and Field Championships New Brunswick, New Jersey 1st 10,000 m 33:02.88
2015 Big East Outdoor Track and Field Championships Tampa, Florida 1st 5000 m 15:40.64

Indoor track and field[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing Providence College
2012 Big East Indoor Track and Field Championships New York, New York 5th Mile 4:49.52
2013 Big East Indoor Track and Field Championships Geneva, Ohio 1st 3000 m 9:20.68
6th DMR 11:21.02
2014 Big East Indoor Track and Field Championships New York, New York 2nd 3000 m 9:09.35
Big East Indoor Track and Field Championships New York, New York 1st 5000 m 16:08.01
2015 Big East Indoor Track and Field Championships New York, New York 1st 5000 m 15:12.22

Cross country[]

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing Wisconsin
2010 Big Ten Cross Country Championship Madison, Wisconsin 3rd 20:02.8; All-Big Ten[21]
Representing Providence College
2011 Big East Cross Country Championship Louisville, Kentucky 4th 19:57.4; All-Big East[22]
2013 Big East Cross Country Championship Somers, Wisconsin 1st 19:49; All-Big East, meet & course record[23]

Professional career[]

On March 29, 2019, running the 10,000 meters in the Stanford Invitational, Sisson beat her training partner and U.S. record-holder Molly Huddle, by 8.9 seconds and lapped the rest of the field.[3]

Competition record[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing the  United States
2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships São Paulo, Brazil 3rd 5000 m 17.47.81[24]
2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 4th 3000 m 10:17.15[25]
2010 World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 10th 3000 m 9:16.80
6th 5000 m 15:48.91
World Cross Country Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 18th Junior race 20:08
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 9th 10,000 m 31:26.36
2021 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 10th 10,000 m 31:04.46

USA National Championships[]

Road[]

Sisson won the 2016 Manchester Road Race in 24:06, and finished second to Molly Huddle at 2017 New York Road Runners New York Half Marathon in 1:08:21.[26] She later beat her PR at the Valencia half-marathon in 2020, resulting in nearly an American record; her half marathon time is the US all-time second-fastest.[27] After setting an American debut record at the 2017 United Airlines New York Road Runners New York Half Marathon, Sisson finished second behind Buze Diriba of Ethiopia with a time of 1:12:24 in the 2018 race.[28][29]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2014 USA 5 km Championships Providence, Rhode Island 4th 5 km 15:44[30]
USA 12 km Championships Alexandria, Virginia 2nd 12 km 38:12[31]
2015 USA 5 km Championships Providence, Rhode Island 3rd 5 km 15:48[32]
USATF 10 km Championships hosted by
Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women 		Boston, Massachusetts 2nd 10 km 32:28[33]
2016 USATF 20 km Championships hosted by
Faxon Law New Haven Road Race 		New Haven, Connecticut 2nd 20 km 1:06:03[34]
USA 5 km Championships Providence, Rhode Island 2nd 5 km 15:42[35]
USATF 10 km Championships hosted by
Tufts Health Plan 10K for Women 		Boston, MA 1st 10 km 31:47[36]
2018 USA 5 km Championships New York City 1st 5 km 15:38[37]

Outdoor track and field[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2007 USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championships Indianapolis, Indiana, IUPUI 1st 5000 m 16:48.67[38]
2008 USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championships Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium,
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 		4th 3000 m 10:01.73[39]
2009 USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championships Eugene, Oregon 2nd 3000 m 9:55.31[40]
2010 USA Junior Cross Country Championships Spokane, Washington 2nd Junior race 20:31.5[41]
USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championships Des Moines, Iowa 1st 3000 m 9:18.73[42]
— 5000 m DNF
2013 2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Des Moines, Iowa 6th 10,000 m 33:27.23[43]
2015 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Eugene, Oregon 5th 10,000 m 32:28.73[44]
2016 2016 United States Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 10th 10,000 m 32:54.06[45]
2017 2017 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Sacramento, California 3rd 10,000 m 31:25.64[46]
2018 2018 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Des Moines, Iowa 4th 10,000 m 32:06.31
2019 Stanford Invitational Palo Alto, California 1st 10,000 m 30:49.57[47]
2019 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Des Moines, Iowa 2nd 10,000 m 32:02.19[48]
2021 2020 United States Olympic Trials Eugene, Oregon 1st 10,000 m 31:03.82

Personal bests[]

All data sourced from worldathletics.org unless otherwise noted.[49] Data as of August 7, 2021.

Surface Event Time Date Location
Outdoor track 1500 Metres 4:40.98 30 JUL 2006 Baltimore, MD (USA)
One Mile 4:44.02 12 JUN 2010 New York, NY (USA)
3000 Metres 8:49.61 16 JUL 2018 Cork (IRL)
Two Miles 10:29.97 15 JUN 2007 Greensboro, NC (USA)
5000 Metres 14:53.84 15 MAY 2021 Irvine, CA (USA)
10,000 Metres 30:49.57 29 MAR 2019 Palo Alto, CA (USA)
"5 Kilometres" 15:38 03 NOV 2018 New York, NY (USA)
"10 Kilometres" 31:47 10 OCT 2016 Boston, MA (USA)
12 Kilometres 38:21 16 NOV 2014 Alexandria, VA (USA)
15 Kilometres 48:09 20 MAR 2021 Jacksonville, FL (USA)
10 Miles Road 52:03 06 NOV 2016 Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
20 Kilometres 1:06:03 05 SEP 2016 New Haven, CT (USA)
Half Marathon 1:07:26 06 DEC 2020 Valencia (ESP)
Marathon 2:23:08 28 APR 2019 London (GBR)
Indoor track One Mile 4:38.49 23 FEB 2013 Boston, MA (USA)
3000 Metres 8:52.60 14 FEB 2015 New York, NY (USA)
Two Miles 10:10.21 12 MAR 2010 Boston, MA (USA)
5000 Metres 15:02.10 26 FEB 2017 Boston, MA (USA)

References[]

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  6. ^ "ArmoryTrack.com - Videos - Emily Sisson broke the collegiate record in the 5,000 with 15:12.22 at the 2015 Big East Championships". www.armorytrack.com.
  7. ^ Staff, Sports. "PC's Emily Sisson sets NCAA 5K record".
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  19. ^ 2012 NCAA Cross Country Championships results. Track and Field News. March 2, 2016
  20. ^ 2013 NCAA Cross Country Championships results. Track and Field News. March 2, 2016
  21. ^ Sisson, Comfort score All-Big Ten finishes for Badgers. UWBadgers.com. October 31, 2010
  22. ^ #7 Women's Cross Country Places Second at BIG EAST Championships. Friars.com. October 29, 2011
  23. ^ Emily Sisson Claims BIG EAST Title To Lead Women's Cross Country To Its Sixth Conference Crown. Friars.com. November 2, 2013
  24. ^ 2007 Pan American Junior Championships results Archived 2018-09-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on March 2, 2016
  25. ^ 2009 Pan American Junior Championships results. Retrieved on March 2, 2016
  26. ^ Training Partners Molly Huddle And Emily Sisson Go 1-2 At NYC Half flotrack.org. March 19, 2017.
  27. ^ "Half Marathon - women - senior - outdoor". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
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  34. ^ "Olympian Korir, Tuliamuk Victorious at USATF 20 km Championships". USATF. September 5, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  35. ^ "Emily Sisson 2nd Place - USATF 5 km Championships 2016". USATF. September 18, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
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  44. ^ "2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships". USATF. June 28, 2015. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  45. ^ "2016 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)". USATF. July 10, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  46. ^ "USATF Championships - 6/22/2017 to 6/25/2017 Hornets Stadium, Sacramento Results". USATF. June 23, 2017. Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  47. ^ Emily Sisson, Track and Field Results Reporting System. April 29, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  48. ^ With Second 10,000-meter National Title, Lopez Lomong Qualifies For First World Team Since 2013, United States Olympic Committee, Peggy Shinn, July 25, 2019. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  49. ^ "Emily SISSON | Profile | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2021-08-08.

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