Nazareth College Athletics

Daughter of Ron and Sarah Ackley, Waverly, N.Y. ... returning for a fifth season of competition after a stellar senior season as she helped the team to its first Empire 8 Championship and earned Second Team All-Empire 8 honors with a 13^th place finish in a career-best time 6K of 23:02.0 … went on to compete at the Niagara Regional Championship and placed 57^th overall in 23:13.7.

2022: Ackley competed regularly for the Golden Flyers in 2022 and finished 16th at the Empire 8 Conference meet with a 6-kilometer time of 24:21.5 at Houghton to earn third-team all-league honors... top 6k time of 24:10.5 came at the Lehigh Paul Short Run on 9/30/22... competed for the indoor and outdoor track and field teams in 2023 and ran on the 4 x 800-meter relay that won the E8 outdoor title (10:02.29) for the second year in a row... also had a personal-best time of 5:13.31 for 1,500 meters.... represented the Golden Flyers for both the fall and spring semesters on the E8 Presidents' List for student-athletes with GPAs of 3.75 and above.

2021-22: Ackley finished 32nd at the Empire 8 Conference meet in 2021 by posting a time of 25:23.9 for 6 kilometers... competed for the indoor and outdoor track and field teams in 2022 and ran on the 4 x 800-meter relay team that captured the E8 outdoor title (9:56.11)... also finished ninth in the 800-meter run outdoors (2:33.78) and 10th indoors (2:30.68)... represented the Golden Flyers for both the fall and spring semesters on the E8 Presidents' List for student-athletes with GPAs of 3.75 and above.

2021: Ackley helped the Golden Flyers to a second-place finish at the Empire 8 Conference meet in the spring of 2021 by placing 15th at Houghton... 5-kilometer time of 20:34.6 was good for second-team all-conference... also finished 10th at St. John Fisher's Rodenbeck Invitational on 3/26/21 with a time of 17:02.0 for 4 kilometers... competed for the Golden Flyers' track teams in the spring and top times included 2:26.94 for 800 meters, 5:16.58 for 1,500 meters and 1:06.83 for 400 meters... represented the Golden Flyers on the E8 Presidents' List for student-athletes with GPAs of 3.75 and above.

Scholastic: a graduate of Waverly High School, Ackley competed there in cross country as well as indoor and outdoor track... placed 16th in Section Four Class C cross country championships in 2019... ranked eighth in graduating class and was a member of the National Honor Society... recipient of NUCOR Foundation Scholarship.