Career Performances  Senior Indoor Team Captain Abby Gesecki
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Career-Best Marks
400 56.81 5/2/09
500 1:14.37 2/22/09
800 2:16.85 3/21/09
Career Honors:
- 2009-10 Navy Women's Track Indoor Team Captain
- 2009 Patriot League 400m Outdoor Champion
- 2009 Second-Team All-Patriot League (500m - Indoor)
- Patriot League Rookie of the Week (Dec. 12, 2006)
- 2009, 2008 and 2007 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
2008-09:
- Delivered PR of 56.81 to capture 400 title at the Patriot League Outdoor Championship
-Played major role in team's Patriot League indoor title, earning second-place honors in the 500 and contributing on a pair of scoring relay efforts (4x400 and 4x800)
-ECAC individual qualifier and team's top 500 performer for third-straight year
-Placed 10th in the event at the ECAC Indoor Championship
-Produced second-fastest 500 time among conference runners (top among juniors)
-Continued to be a major pointscorer versus Army, producing two individual wins for the second year in a row
-Won the 500 during the indoor season and again earned a victory in the 800 during team's spring dual with Army
-Part of foursome that posted the fifth-fastest 4x800 time in school history at the Patriot League meet (9:09.00)
-Also ran on 4x800 squad that placed 12th at ECAC's with the 10th-fastest time in school history (9:11.54)
2007-08:
-Paced team's efforts in the 500 for second-straight year
-Also produced Navy's second-fastest 800 time on the year
-Finished fifth in the event at the indoor league championship
-Registered pair of individual wins against Army
-Used season-best showing (1:17.90) to win 500 during indoor meeting
-Won the 800 at the outdoor Star Meet with a then-PR of 2:16.89
2006-07:
-Team's top-ranked 500 runner
-Scored points with fifth-place 500 showing at the Patriot League Indoor Championship
-Took third in the 500 versus Army during indoor Star Meet
-Placed fifth in the 400 against Black Knights during spring dual
-Contributed to team's season-best 4x400 relay effort
High School:
-A 2006 graduate of Greater Nanticoke Area High School
-Earned four letters in track and cross country, also lettered in basketball
-District champion in the 800m during junior and senior years
-Finished third at state championship as a senior and fifth as a junior
-Won district title in 400m as a freshman
-Placed eighth at state meet later that year
-Served as team captain her senior year
-Wendy's High School Heisman State Finalist
Personal:
-Full name is Abigail Rose Gesecki
-Daughter of Henry Gesecki and Arlene Bukowski
-Born Aug. 23, 1988, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
-Sister, Candice, played basketball at Carnegie Mellon
-Majoring in systems engineering
