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- Year:
- Sr.
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- Hometown:
- Lynnfield, Mass.
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- High School:
- Lynnfield
Bio
Cross country team captain ... 2012 graduate of Lynnfield High School … very good student majoring in economics-finance … owns Bentley school record in steeplechase … Before Bentley: as a senior at Lynnfield, was captain of cross country, indoor track and outdoor track teams … cross country team MVP as a freshman and sophomore … two-time recipient of Coaches’ Award in indoor track … Personal: age as of Sept. 1: 21 … daughter of Jim and Kim Albanese … has one sister, Hannah (18) … National Honor Society … has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity … involved with Service Learning.
CROSS COUNTRY
2014: scored in each of the three races she ran … team’s number one runner in UMass-Dartmouth Invitational, placing 50th overall in 19:35.4 … 229th in the New Englands (20:41.9) where she was the fifth Falcon across the line … 2013: was one of Bentley’s top seven in each of the five races she ran … was seventh Falcon across the finish line (25:43.4) and 97th overall at the NCAA Division II East Regional … 237th overall at the NCAA Division II Championships with her time of 25:20.3 sixth best on the team … at the New Englands, was fifth among Bentley runners and 219th overall with a 20:30 … 2012: ran in all six events and was among the team’s top seven in each … Bentley’s top finisher in the Shacklette Invitational, placing 20th overall with a time of 21:28.7 in her collegiate debut … 79th in Northeast-10 Championships (21:17.3) … 105th in NCAA Division II East Regional (25:00.9) … 209th in New Englands … was fifth among Falcons in New Englands and NE-10’s, and seventh in the regional.
TRACK
School Record: Has broken the school record in the steeplechase three times, running 11:49.05 in the 2014 Tufts Snowflake Classic, 11:44.03 in the 2014 Northeast-10 Championships and 11:39.23 in the 2015 New Englands … Bentley Rankings: 9th in indoor distance medley (13:23.76, 2014 Northeast-10 Championships) … Indoor Bests: 3:24.73 1000 (2013 Dartmouth Indoor Classic), 5:29.04 mile (2014 BU Valentine’s), 11:02.94 3,000 (2015 Northeast-10 Championships) … Outdoor Bests: 5:01.42 1,500 (2014 Stonehill Skyhawk), 11:04.32 3,000 (2015 Stonehill Skyhawk), 20:39.16 5,000 (2013 Tufts Snowflake), 11:39.23 steeplechase (2015 New Englands) … 2014-15: in the Northeast-10 Championships, placed sixth in the outdoor steeplechase (12:01.29) and eighth in the indoor 3,000 (11:02.94) … during the New Englands, was 15th in the indoor DMR (13:07.20) and 21st in the steeplechase (11:39.23) … won the steeplechase during the Corsair Classic at UMass-Dartmouth (12:32.26) … named to Apr. 15 Northeast-10 Weekly Honor Roll … 2013-14: finished third in the steeplechase at the Northeast-10 Championships, her time of 11:44.03 a school record … previously broke school record in the Tufts Snowflake Classic (11:49.05) … 28th in steeple at New Englands (12:11.45) … at the indoor NE-10’s, was eighth in mile (5:32.06) and tenth in distance medley (13:23.76) … 2012-13: eighth in steeplechase at NE-10 Championships (12:53.69) … runner-up in steeplechase at Skyhawk Invitational at Stonehill (13:00.43) … at indoor NE-10’s, was eighth in distance medley (13:53.14) and 13th in mile (5:48.01).
News Mentions
Lynn Item: "Albanese drives Bentley cross country"
Joshua Kummins profiled Bentley women's cross country captain Samantha Albanese in Tuesday's Lynn Item. This also appeared online at www.itemlive....
September 30, 2015
Cross Country Debuts Saturday at Dartmouth Invitational
With the trio of junior Nik Haas (Ramsey, N.J./Ramsey HS), senior Sarah Brennan (Quincy/Notre Dame Academy) and All-America grad student Tara...
September 9, 2015