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2024 Women's Cross Country Roster

Talon Prusi

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Negaunee
  • Hometown Negaunee, Mich.

Biography

2024

  • Did not participate

2023

  • Ran in six races for the Green and Gold
  • Started the season with a time of 19:42.2 in the 5k at the Northwood Invite
  • Set a personal record of 23:35.3 in the 6k at the Drews/Neubauer Invitational in La Cross, Wisconsin, good for 18th place
  • Took 59th at the GLIAC Championships with a time of 23:52.0

2022

  • Ran a 20:04.02 5K in the Ray Helsing Invitational, placed 10 of 58
  • Ran a 24:41.0 6K in the Roy Griak Invitational, placed 87 of 382
  • Ran a 32:21.34 6K in the Lucian Rosa Invitational, placed 44 of 135
  • Ran a 23:53.8 6K in the WSU Warrior Challenge, placed 46 of 158
  • Ran a 23:46.08 6K at the GLIAC Championships, placed 53 of 103
  • Ran a 23:45.6 6K at the NCAA DII Midwest Regionals, placed 104 of 214
2021
  • Ran in five meets for the Wildcats
  • Took 5th place in the first meet of the season, running the Northwood Invite 5K in a time of 19:15.6
  • Ran to a 24th place finish at the Lucian Rosa Invite, finishing the 6K race with a time of 24:14.8
  • Competed at the GLIAC Championships, placing 42nd with a time of 24:28.7. 

2020

  •  No Season Due to COVID-19

Before NMU

  • Four-year varsity runner in both Cross Country and Track & Field
Cross Country:
  • Two-time First-Team West-PAC runner
  • Three-time All-U.P. Cross Country team selection 
  • Three-time All-State honors recipient
  • U.P. Dream Team selection
  • First place in both the Marquette County Relays and the WIN meet
  • Finished fourth at U.P. finals
Track and Field:
  • Earned U.P. Division 1 All-State honors in the 3200 meter run
  • Finished second in the 3200-meter run at the U.P. finals in 2019
Personal
  • Daughter of Spencer and Valerie Prusi
  • From Negaunee, Michigan
  • Mother, Valerie, played DIII basketball for Anoka Ramsey community college. The team won the National Championship in 1996 and 1997, the two years Valerie played. Valerie was inducted into the schools Hall of Fame in 2019
  • Hobbies include drawing, painting, traveling, playing video games, and reading

Historical Player Information

  • 2020Freshman

  • 2021Sophomore

  • 2022Junior

  • 2023Junior

    5'6"
  • 2024Senior

    5'6"