EVENT RESULTS/TOP PERFORMANCES
2025 SEASON: Selected to the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-East Region Team ... Tabbed to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference First Team All-Conference Team ... Named to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Women's Track & Field Academic All-Conference Team ... Appeared in 15 meets on the season ... Recorded 10 top five finishes, including two victories ... Opened the season with a seventh-place finish in the 60 meters, while placing second in the 4x200-meter relay with Savanna Vargas, Mimi Batista, and Camille Connors at the Lyon Invitational on January 25 ... Posted a career-best time of 8.09 in the 60 meters at the New England Division III Indoor Track and Field Championship ... Recorded a personal-best time of 12.82 in the 100 meters at the Emory Dooley Elite Meet in Atlanta, Ga. on April 5 ... Finished in sixth place with a personal-best time of 26.25 in the 200 meters at the Bridgewater State University Bears Invitational on April 11 ... Also won the 4x100-meter relay with Wendy Wooden, Camille Connors, and Michaina Loriston at the Bridgewater State University Bears Invitational on April 11 ... Placed 13th in the 100 meters and 200 meters, while also finishing in second place in the 4x100-meter relay Wooden, Connors, and Loriston at the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Championship ... Finished in second place in the 4x100-meter relay with Wooden, Connors, and Loriston at the New England Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship ... Won the 4x100-meter relay with Wooden, Connors, and Loriston at the Final Qualifier at MIT on May 15 ... Closed out her career with a 15th place finish in the 4x100-meter relay preliminaries with Wooden, Connors, and Loriston at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship ... Named to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Women's Track Relay of the Week on April 7 with Wendy Wooden, Inez Medeiros, and Michiana Loriston for recording a season-best time of 47.40 to place third at the Emory Dooley Elite Meet hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. on April 5.
2024 SEASON: Tabbed to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference First Team All-Conference Team ... Named to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Women's Track & Field Academic All-Conference Team ... Appeared in 12 meets on the season ... Recorded eight top five finishes, including one victory ... Opened the season with a fifth-place finish in the 4x200-meter relay with Morgan Zakrzewski Eliza Speidel, and Anella Bolster at the Lyon Invitational on January 13 ... Placed second in the 4x200-meter relay with Abigail Rogers, Eliza Speidel, and Brianna Hill at the Wheaton Invitational on January 27 ... Placed fifth in the 60 meters and finished third in the 4x200-meter relay with Abigail Rogers, Eliza Speidel, and Lauren Hinckley at the Wheaton Pre Post-Season Meet on February 17 ... Closed out the season with a victory in the 4x100-meter relay with Savanna Vargas, Schyler Wyse, and Kate Wickenheisser at the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Championship ...
2023 SEASON: Selected to the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-East Region Team ... Tabbed to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference First Team All-Conference Team ... Named to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Women's Track & Field Academic All-Conference Team ... Appeared in 16 meets on the season ... Recorded 18 top five finishes, including six victories ... Opened the season with a personal-best time of 7.56 in the 55 meters, while also placing second in the 200 meters at the Coast Guard Academy Winter Invitational on January 14 ... Won the 4x200-meter relay with Abigail Rogers, Eliza Speidel, and Wendy Wooden at the Lyon-Mule Dual Invitational on January 21 ... Added another victory in the 4x200-meter relay with Michaina Loriston, Schyler Wyse, and Abigail Rogers at the Wheaton Invitational on January 28 ... Placed fourth in the 200 meters and fifth in the 60 meters at the Wheaton Pre Post-Season Meet on February 18 ... Won the 4x100-meter relay in two straight meets with Schyler Wyse, Michiana Loriston, and Amanda Castaldi at the Carla Coffey Invitational and Trinity Invitational ... Recorded a first-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay with Wyse, Loriston, and Castaldi at the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Championship ... Finished in second place in the 4x100-meter relay with Wyse, Loriston, and Castaldi at the New England Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship ... Placed fifth in the 4x100-meter relay with Wyse, Loriston, and Castaldi at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association Championship ... Closed out the season with a victory in the 4x100-meter relay with Wyse, Castaldi, and Loriston at the MIT Final Qualifier on May 18.
2022 SEASON: Named to the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Outdoor All-East Region Team ... Tabbed to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Second Team All-Conference Team ... Made her collegiate debut with a time of 8.34 in the 60 meters at the Wheaton Invitational on January 15 ... Helped Wheaton place 12th in the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 47.10 in the preliminaries of the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship ... Part of the Lyons' 4x100-meter relay squad that placed second with a time of 47.82 at the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Outdoor Championship on April 30 and recorded a personal-best time of 12.93 to place 10th in the preliminaries of the 100 meters ... Helped Wheaton place fifth in the 4x100-meter relay with a mark of 47.21 at the New England Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association Outdoor Championship on May 15 ... Recorded a personal-best time of 8.18 in the 60 meters at the Boston University Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invite on February 5 ... Finished 20th with a personal-record time of 27.51 in the 200 meters at the Tufts Snowflake Classic on April 2.
HONORS: 2022, 2023 & 2025 USTFCCCA Outdoor All-East Region Team ... 2022 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete ... 2023, 2023 & 2025 NEWMAC First Team All-Conference ... 2022 NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference ... Named to the Dean's List every semester at Wheaton.
BEFORE WHEATON: Graduated from Amity Regional High School in 2021 ... Four-year letterwinner in indoor and outdoor track & field for the Spartans ... Named All-State and All-Conference following her first year for ARHS track ... Tabbed the Spartans Most Valuable Performer as a first year ... Tabbed First Team All-State and All-Conference in addition to earning Most Valuable Sprinter honors at ARHS following her sophomore campaign ... Broke the school record for the 60 meters with a mark of 8.13 as a junior for the Spartans ... Part of the Amity Regional relay team that won Southern Connecticut Conference title and finished second at the State Championship in the 4X100 during her sophomore season ... Chosen a two-year Captain for the Spartans' indoor track & field squad in addition to being selected a Captain for the outdoor team ... Member of English National Honor Society and the Science National Honor Society at ARHS ... Recipient of the Underclassmen Excellence in English Award as a sophomore and the Excellence in Writing Award as a junior at Amity Regional High School ... Member of Student Government all four years at ARHS.
PERSONAL: Born September 13, 2003 ... Majoring in Creative Writing at Wheaton and would like to pursue a career as a Book Editor ... Daughter of Michael and Kori Zielinski ... Has one sibling, Riley ... Her Father, Michael, was a football running back for Central Connecticut State University ... Helped to start CT Corona Crew, where students distributed food from local businesses to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic ... Chose to run at Wheaton because the moment she stepped onto the campus she felt welcomed by the coaches and team members and made her feel like it was a place where she belonged and was part of a family.
