Amanda Walden
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- Height:
- 5-2
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- Hometown:
- Essex Junction, Vt.
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- Year:
- Sr.
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- High School:
- Essex
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- Major:
- Undecided
Bio
• Also a member of Suffolk's women's outdoor track & field teams
PERSONAL RECORDS
55: 7.85, at USM Covid Catch Up, Jan. 23, 2022
60: 7.91, at New England Division III Indoor Championship, Feb. 25, 2024
200: 25.61, twice, last at New England Division III Indoor Championship, Feb. 25, 2024
400: 1:00.35, at Branwen Smith-King Invitational, Jan. 20, 2024
SENIOR • 2023-24
New England regional qualifier in the 60, 200 and 4x400 ... Captain ... Ran the 60 (8.04), 200 926.04) and 4x200 (1:48.21) at the Suffolk Relays (Dec. 2) ... Apart of the first-place 4x400, runner-up in the 200 (25.81) and finished third in the 60 (8.01) at the Beacon Invitational (Dec. 10) ... Took fourth in the 60 (8.07) and ninth in the 200 (26.10) at the Suffolk Ice Breaker Invitational (Jan. 13) ... Won the 60 (7.98) and 400 (1:00.35) at the Branwen Smith-King Invitational (Jan. 20) ... Competed in the 60 (8.01) and 200 (26.03) at the John Thomas Terrier Classic (Jan. 26-27) ... Participated in the 60 (7.97), 200 (25.69) and 4x400 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational (Feb. 9-10) ... Finished fourth in the 60 (7.92) and 200 (25.61) at the USATF New England Indoor Championship (Feb. 18) ... Secured seventh in the 200 (25.61), 10th in the 60 (7.91) and 12th in the 4x400 at the New England Division III Indoor Championship (Feb. 25) ... Claimed 14th in the 60 with a time of 7.96 at the NEICAAA Indoor Championship (March 1-2).
JUNIOR • 2022-23
NCAA DIII New England Qualifier in the 60 and 200 ... Three-time Frozen 8 Champion (60, 200, 4x400) ... Three-time All-Frozen 8 (60, 200, 4x400) ... Captain ... Took fourth in the 200 (26.73) and sixth in the 60 (8.19) at the Suffolk Relays (Dec. 3) ... Ran the 60 (8.17) and 200 (26.51) at the Beacon Invitational (Dec. 10) ... Finished ninth in the 200 (27.23) at the Suffolk Ice Breaker Invitational (Jan. 14) ... Won the 400 (1:03.68) and took fourth in the 60 (8.34) at the Panther Invitational I (Jan. 21) ... Claimed 19th in the 60 (8.13) at the Riverhawk Invitational (Jan. 27-28) ... Raced the 200 (26.25) at the John Thomas Terrier Classic (Jan. 27-28) ... Clocked a 8.04 60 at the Scarlet and White Invite (Feb. 4) ... Won the 60 (7.96) and 200 (25.95) at the Frozen 8 Championships where she was a member of the first-place 4x400 Relay Team (4:11.1) (Feb. 12) ... Ran the 60 (8.08) and 200 (26.17) at the NCAA DIII New England Regional Championships (Feb. 24-25).
SOPHOMORE • 2021-22
GNAC Track Athlete of the Year ... GNAC Champion (60, 4x400) ... Two-time All-GNAC (60, 4x400) ... Captain ... Competed in the 60 (8.58) and 200 (27.75) at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (Dec. 4) ... Took fifth in the 200 (28.) and seventh in the 60 (8.51) at the Joe Donahue Games (Dec. 11) ... Claimed third in the 55 (7.86) and third in the 200 (28.00) at the USM Covid Catch Up (Jan. 23) ... Ran the 400 (1:04.71) at the John Thomas Terrier Classic (Jan. 28) ... Member of the 4x400 Relay Team (4:21.29) at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invite (Feb. 5) ... Won the 60 (8.16) and was on the first-place 4x400 Relay Team and was runner-up in the 200 (26.47) at the GNAC Championships (Feb. 13) ... Clocked a 26.98 200 at the New England Division III Women's Indoor Championships (Feb. 25-26).
FRESHMAN • 2020-21
Season cancelled due to COVID-19.
ACADEMICS
Two-time CCC Winter/Spring All-Academic Team (2021-22, 2023-24) ... GNAC All-Academic in 2021-22 ... Member of Suffolk's 4.0 Club in Fall 2020 ... Seven-time AD Honor Roll selection (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024).
BEFORE SUFFOLK • FOXBOROUGH
Letterwinner at Foxoborough … Indoor track & field Hockomock League All-Star Honorable Mention selection in 2019-20.
News mentions
Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field caps off its first semester action at the Beacons Invitational hosted by UMass Boston at the Track at New Balance Saturday, Dec. 10 at 9 a.m.
Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field is sending eight Rams to the Track at New Balance to compete at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships this weekend. Qualifications start Friday, March 1 with the finals set for Saturday, March 2. Action starts at 10 a.m.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field saw three upperclassmen race at the 2024 New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association (NEICAAA) Championships over the weekend. The group were the first-ever Rams to compete at the indoor edition of the historic meet.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field team finished 26th at the New England Division III Championships at the Track at New Balance over the weekend.
Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field will be represented in a dozen events at this weekends’ New England Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Track at New Balance Sunday, Feb. 25.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field tallied nine personal records and three school records at the USATF New England Indoor Track & Field Championships Sunday at Harvard’s Gordon Indoor Track.
Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field has one final event to qualify for NCAA Division III New England’s, this weekend’s USATF New England Track & Field Championship presented by the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) at Harvard University’s Gordon Indoor Track.
Three Suffolk women’s indoor track & field records and five personal bests were achieved over the weekend at Boston University’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational.
Suffolk indoor track & field splits up its talent this weekend at a pair of events – Boston University’s David Hemery Valentine Invitational and Bowdoin’s Lynn Ruddy Invite. The Rams women will compete across town at BU on Friday, Feb. 9 with the men participating on Saturday, Feb. 10. Action in Maine consumes Saturday’s slate as well.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field remains in the U. S. Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association East Regional top 10 in tenth, the national organization unveiled this week. In the first event top-25 list of the season, the Rams pole vault sits 13th with the blue-and-gold 23rd in the 400.
Suffolk indoor track & field has a full weekend Jan. 26-27 in store with three events on the docket with Rams set to compete at the John Thomas Terrier Classic at Boston University, UMass Lowell’s River Hawk Invitational at the Track at New Balance and the Husky Invitational at the USM Fieldhouse in Gorham, Maine.
A pair of Rams records were written this weekend as Suffolk women’s indoor track & field compete at Boston University’s John Thomas Terrier Classic.
For the first time in program history, Suffolk’s women’s indoor track & field team has cracked the top-10 in the U.S. Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division III East Regional Rankings as the Rams landed ninth in the week 1 poll, the national organization announced.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field saw pair of Rams earn their spot at New England Regionals at Tufts Branwen Smith-King Invitational Saturday at the Gantcher Center.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field got its second semester underway at the second annual Suffolk Ice Breaker Invitational Saturday at the Track at New Balance.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field put an exclamation point on the 2023 portion of its schedule as four Rams records were rewritten Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Track at New Balances.
Suffolk women’s indoor track & field got its 2023-24 campaign underway Saturday at the Suffolk Relays at the Track at New Balance. It was the second straight season the Rams put on their hosting hat to lift he lid on its campaign. This year 25 students in blue-and-gold were featured across 13 events in the season-opening event.
Suffolk men’s and women’s indoor track & field is scheduled to get its season underway at the Suffolk Relays Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Track at New Balance. It is the second straight season and second time in the program’s history that the Rams will lift the lid on their indoor campaign as host. Throwing events are scheduled to start at 9 a.m. with track and jumping events set to follow at 10 a.m.
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