2023 Women's Cross Country Roster
Roster
Emma Tate
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- West Lafayette HS
- Hometown:
- West Lafayette, IN
Tate's Peformance History and Personal Bests
Background: Spent four years at Purdue, where she was an NCAA Championships qualifier in cross country in 2021 … Earned a top-50 finish at the 2022 NCAA Division I Great Lakes Region Cross country Championships … Placed 18th at the 2022 Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships in the 3,000-meters … Earned NCAA Championships berth in 2021 after finishing 25th at Region meet and earning All-Region honors ... Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honoree … One of just two Purdue recipients of the Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship
High School: Attended West Lafayette High School in West Lafayette, Indiana … Won two state titles as part of the 4x800 relay team … Placed sixth at the state championships her senior year in the 1,600-meters and 16th at the state cross country meet … Also lettered in basketball and swimming
Personal: Daughter of Jill and Curtis Tate … Has one sibling, Ellie … Twin sister, Ellie, ran cross country and track at Purdue from 2019-2023 … Emma has accepted a PhD position within the Land Resource and Environmental Science Department and received a fellowship through the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department to study extreme biofilms at Yellowstone National Park
