2024-25 Women's Track & Field Roster

Jon Pearl
Jon Pearl
TJ Hoolehan
Jon Pearl

Emma Russum

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Kingsport, Tenn.
  • High School Dobyns Bennett
  • Prev School Chattanooga

Biography

PR's
Cross Country: 4K - 15:05.7 … 5K - 17:37.1 … 6K - 20:42.5 … 3 Mile - 17:57.9
Indoor: Mile - 4:59.51 ... 3,000m - 9:43.16 … 5,000m - 16:41.66
Outdoor: 1,500m - 4:35.28 … 3,000m - 10:29.88 … 3,000m Steeple - 10:34.13 ... 5,000m - 16:30.30 … 10,000m - 34:41.91
2024-25
Cross Country 
  • Earned Second Team All-SBC honors after finishing seventh with a 5K time of 17:46.4 at the SBC Championships (Nov. 1) and helping the Mountaineers to their first SBC Women’s Cross Country team title since 2018
  • Clocked a 6K time of 22:27.5 at the NCAA Southeast Regional (Nov. 15), finishing among the top-100
  • Stopped the clock at 17:37.1 for a 5K personal best and top-20 finish at the Joe Piane Invitational (Oct. 4) and rounded out the top-10 in the program all-time list
  • Finished second with a 6K time of 22:02.9 at the Winthrop Invitational (Oct. 18) 
  • Placed fifth with a 5K time of 17:59.6 at the Covered Bridge Open (Aug. 30) and clocked a 6K time of 21:33.7 to place 14th at the Firetower Project Run (Sept. 13)
 Indoor
  • Earned Second Team All-SBC after placing second with a time of 16:41.66 in the 5,000 meters - rising to third in the App State all-time list - and placed fourth in the 3,000 meters with a time of 9:47.09 at the SBC Indoor Championships (Feb. 24-25) 
  • Part of the distance medley relay (DMR) team that placed fifth with a time of 12:12.61 and recorded a personal best and seventh-place finish with a time of 4:59.51 in the mile at the Doc Hale Invitational (Feb. 7-8) 
  • Posted a personal best of 9:43.16 to round out the top-10 in the 3,000 meters and move to sixth in the all-time list at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational (Feb. 14-15)
  • Placed first in the 5,000 meters with a time of 17:00.66 at the Orange & Purple Invitational (Jan. 24-25)
 Outdoor
  • Named the SBC Outdoor Track & Field Women’s Newcomer of the Year
  • Collected First Team All-SBC honors after finishing first in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:36.27 and second in the 5,000 meters with a time of 16:53.59 at the SBC Outdoor Championships (May 8-10)
  • Clocked a personal best of 16:30.30 in the 5,000 meters at the Penn Relays (Apr. 24-26), which moved her to fourth on the program all-time list
  • Placed seventh in competition and rose to second in the program all-time list with a personal best of 10:34.13 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Duke Invitational (Apr. 10-12) 
  • Clocked a personal best of 34:41.91, finishing in the top-20 in the 10,000 meters at the Raleigh Relays (Mar. 27-29), which elevated her to second on the program all-time list
  • Placed first in the 10,000 meters with a facility record time of 35:35.19 at the Sunday Night Qualifier (May 18) 
  • Finished first in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:58.10 at the Mountaineer First Chance (Mar. 21)
Prior to App State
  • Two-time CSC Academic All-District honoree at Chattanooga
  • Placed fifth in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2023 SoCon Outdoor Championships
  • Placed eighth in the women’s 5,000 meters at the 2023 SoCon Indoor Championships
  • 2021 conference All-Freshman cross country selection
High School 
  • Member of the 2019 TSSAA State Championship Team
  • Two-time All-State honoree
  • Four-time All-Region selection
Personal
  • Daughter of Marci and Ryan Russum
  • Has a sibling named Libby
  • Can mirror write
  • Has a great uncle who wrote Hallmark movies
  • Enjoys reading and hiking