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2021 Women's Cross Country Roster

Ashley Lai

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • Major Film & Television (Tisch School of the Arts)
  • Hometown Irvine, CA
  • High School Northwood

Biography

2021
  • UAA Fall Sport All-Academic
  • Competed twice for NYU
  • Finished 81st with a time of 25:07.08 (6k) at the Yellowjacket Invitational (9/18)
  • Posted a season-best time of 24:46.2 (6k) at the Paul Short Run (10/1)
 
2020
  • NYU did not compete due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
  • UAA Fall Sport All-Academic
 
2019
  • UAA Fall Sport All-Academic
  • Posted personal-best times in the 5k (21:51.2) at the Vassar Ron Stonitsch Invitational (9/7) and in the 6k (24:41.9) at the Lehigh Paul Short Run (10/5)

 2018
  • IAAC Spring Honor Roll
 
Personal
  • Four-year member of the cross country and track & field teams in high school
  • Enjoys tap dancing, playing the piano and violin, listening to music, sleeping, and “simply experiencing life”

Lai on NYU
  • Chose to attend NYU because “it forces me out of my comfort zone - because it's integrated in a huge city - and it also forces me to stop being such an introvert”

Historical Player Information

  • 2018Freshman

    5'2"
  • 2019Sophomore

    5'3"
  • 2021Senior

    5'5"