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Emma Dewart Trakas

  • Class
    2012
  • Induction
    2023
  • Sport(s)
    Women's Track & Field
Emma Dewart Trakas is the most decorated women's track & field student-athlete in program history with 11 All-America honors and two national championships. Dewart was a six-time All-American during the indoor season, which is where both of her national championships occurred in the pentathlon. She also claimed five All-American performances during outdoor, including four during the 2011 season.

Dewart was the NYSCTC and Empire 8 Rookie of the Year in 2008-09, a five-time USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Field Athlete of the Year and a three-time Empire 8 Field Athlete of the Year. During her senior season, Dewart was named First-Team Academic All-American by CoSIDA.

She still owns four school records and held the marks in the pentathlon and heptathlon until 2023. Her pentathlon record of 3674 points was set during her national title performance in 2012 in Grinnell, Iowa.

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