Samantha Albanese
Samantha Albanese
  • Year:
    Sr.
  • Hometown:
    Lynnfield, Mass.
  • 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).

TFRRS Profile

News Mentions

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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

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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