Laura would help lead the Milton Wildcats to 3 Baystate Invitational XC Team Championships, 3 Class C X-C Championships, and 2 All State XC titles. She was a member of 2 All State 4 X 800 meter relay championships, and a member of the 2nd place finish team on the Outdoor National distance medley relay team. As a sophomore at Milton High, Laura would finish 5th at the Bay-State Invitational, 4th at the Class C meet and 20th at the All-State Meet. These performances helped her team finish as Champions in all three of these prestigious meets. In her junior year, Laura would finish 3rd at the Bay-State Meet with a team win, 10th at the Class C meet with a team win and 19th place finish in the All State meet and a team 3rd place finish. Laura continued to mature as a runner and as a senior helped lead Milton High to the X-C version of the hat trick, just as she had done in her sophomore year. Laura’s 1st place at the Bay-State Invitational, her 5th place at the Class C Meet and 6th place finish at the All State meet would help lead her team to impressive Championship victories. That aforementioned All State title was a beautiful hard fought 92-93 victory over a very tough Mohawk Regional High School. Upon graduating from Milton H.S. as the schools valedictorian, Laura would bring her love of running and enthusiasm to Yale University. While at Yale, Laura, was a five time All-America, an eight time first team All-Ivy selection. According to a Yale publication “Laura has accomplished more for Yale in track and field and cross-country than any woman in Yale history.” During her tenure as a Bulldog, she held the indoor and outdoor 5,000-meter records as well as the top time in the 10,000 (outdoors). She scored more points at the league and the NCAA championships than any other Yale runner, with finishes of 33rd, 26th, and 13th at three successive NCAA Cross Country Championships. Laura would graduate from Yale as the only three-time All-American and three-time first-team All-Ivy performer in the history of the cross country program. She won five individual Heptagonal Championships in track and field and has scored more career points in Heptagonal competition than any Yale woman. She also has two individual ECAC championships to her credit. Laura, a two-time track All-American with a 3.7 GPA in history, also finished third in the 10,000 meter run at the NCAA Championships in 2002, and fifth at the Indoor NCAA Championships at 5,000 meters. She won five individual league championships and finished second to her sister on six other occasions. Laura along with her sister became the first athletes ever to share the Nellie Pratt Elliot Award. At Yale this is the most prestigious athletic award given to a senior female. The award goes to the senior woman whose excellence in the field of athletics and in her life at Yale best represents the ideals of sportsmanship and Yale tradition. After graduation in 2003 Laura placed 4th in the US Road 10K Championships. In 2004 she represented the US at the World Cross-Country Championships in Belgium, she finished 7th at the Olympic Trials in the 10K and in 2005 she was 6th at the US Outdoor National 10K Championships. She graduated from Yale with PR’s in the 3000m-9:23.84, 5000m-15:54.18, and the10,000-32:15.70 Presently, Laura is at the University of North Carolina working towards her master’s degree in Library Sciences
Class: 1997 Inducted: 2008