2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster

Lily Jin

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Wellesley, Mass.
  • High School Wellesley

Biography

Collegiate Bests: 
4k (XC): 15:56.5
5k (XC): 19:24.7
6k (XC): 22:34.1

2024-25: Opened her first cross country season for Yale with a 4k at the Harvard-Yale Dual meet...Finished 11th overall in the 5k at the Codfish Bowl...Raced the 6k at the Lehigh Paul Short Invite...Set a personal record of 22:34.1 in the 6k at the ECAC Championship...Represented Yale at the Ivy League Cross Country Championships to end the cross country season... Indoors, opened season with eighth-place finish in mile at Yale Season Opener... Competed in 3000m at YDC meet... PR of 10:21.30 in 3000m at Coach Greg Roy-al Rumble... PR of 5:07.67 in mile, and competed in 4x400m, at Giegengack Invitational.

Before Yale: Had personal records of 2:14.14 in the 800m, 4:54.00 in the mile, 9:56 in the 3000m, and 17:18.79 in the 5000m...Five-time Nationals Qualifier (New Balance Indoor, Outdoor)...2023 Team USA member at World Mountain Championships in Innsbruck, Austria...Boston Globe Cross Country All-Scholastic...Boston Globe Cross Country All-League in 2020 and 2021...Bay State Conference Cross Country All-Star in 2020 and 2021...MetroWest Cross Country All-Star in 2020 and 2021...2021 Bay State Conference Track and Field All-Star...2021 MetroWest Track and Field All-Star...2021 High school team third-place finish at XC States.

Notes: Valedictorian... National Merit Finalist... National Honor Society... AP Scholar w/ Distinction... Massachusetts Superintendent Academic Excellence Award... Two-time National Academic Decathlon Silver Medalist... Climate Action Club President... Key Club Treasurer... Volunteered and interned with nonprofit Sustainable Wellesley... Tutored and was Programming Chair for math nonprofit Infinity Squad... Arts Editor for school newspaper... Competed on Academic Decathlon Honors team for two years... Tries to find time to cook/bake, crochet, read, spend time outdoors with family and friends, and curate indie Spotify playlists.

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25First Year

    Middle Distance
  • 2025-26Sophomore

    Middle Distance