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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

2022 Women's Cross Country

Meredith Bloss

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Guilford, CT
  • High School Guilford
  • College Harvey Mudd

Biography

TFRRS Results

At CMS
2022-23 (Senior)
First-Team All-West Region ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... 
Came in second place at the SCIAC Championships with a time of 21:57.4 ... Finished in almost the exact same time at the NCAA West Regionals (21:57.7) to take fourth place ... Was seventh at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational in 22:06.2 ... Came in 11th place out of 395 runners at the Paul Short Invitational in Bethlehem, Pennsylania ... Finished 52nd at the NCAA Division III Championships ... Was second at the Redlands Invitational in 16:52.0 (4.5K race) to open the season. 


2021-22 Season (Junior)

All-American ... SCIAC Champion ... First-Team All-West Region ... SCIAC Athlete of the Week (Sept. 20) ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Finished 13th at the NCAA Division III Championships to earn All-America honors with a time of 21:17.4 to help CMS to its highest team finish in program history (second) ... Set the CMS record for a 6K race by running a 20:31.0 at the UC Riverside Invitational to place fourth, earning SCIAC Athlete of the Week honors ... Won the SCIAC individual title with a time of 21:25.4 ... Followed that up with a second-place finish at the NCAA Division III West Regionals in 21:54.4 ... Came in second place at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational with a 21:30.4 ... Earned seventh place at the DIII Pre-Nationals in Louisville with a 22:21.0.

2020-21 Season (Sophomore)
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Athenas did not compete due to COVID-19.

2019-20 Season (First-Year)

Competed in three events while attending Cornell. 

Prior to CMS
Attended Guilford High School in Connecticut, where she was a member of the cross country and track and field teams, serving as cross country captain for two years ... Two-time First-Team All-SCC in cross country (2016-17) ... Graduated with Guilford's 5K cross country record ... Two-time New England regional cross country qualifier (2017, 18), earning All-New England honors in 2017, when she also won the SCC Championship ... Named SCC Cross Country Runner of the Year twice and earned all-state honors three times ... Earned Footlocker Second-Team All-Northeast honors in 2017 ... Two-time NHR all-area pick, all-area MVP (2017, 18) ... Indoor track school record holder in four events (3000, 1600, 3200 and 2 mile) ...Earned All-SCC honors in track and field six times (First-Team: 3200 - 2018, 1600 - 2018, 19; Second-Team: 3200 - 2016, 17, 1600 - 2017) and was a four-time SCC Champion, sweeping the 3200 and 1600 in both 2018 and 2019 ... Named the SCC Indoor Track Runner of the Year and MVP (2018) ...Earned All-State honors for both the 1600 & 3200 for indoor track ... State Open runner-up in 3200 in 2018 ... Outdoor track school record holder in two mile & 3200 ... Three-time First-Team All-SCC in outdoor track in the 3200 (2017, 18, 19), earning All-New England honors in 2018 ... NHR All-Area Selection in 2018 and 2019 ... Three-time SCC Champion, winning the two mile in 2018 and 19 and the 1600 in 2019 ... Had PRs of 36:23 road 10k, 10:52 in the 3200, 4:44 in the 1500, and 17:45 in the 5k ... Earned United States Presidential Scholar honors and the Dartmouth Book Award in the classroom. 

Personal
Attends Harvey Mudd, where she majors in engineering. 

Meredith Bloss posed shot

Historical Player Information

  • 2021Junior

  • 2022Senior