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Gersch, Victoria
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Victoria Gersch
- Position:
- Sprints
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Mercer Island, Wash.
- High School:
- Mercer Island
- Prev School:
- William & Mary
Bio
2021 Pac-12 4x400m Relay Bronze Medalist
Earned her Masters of Public Health in Health Services following four years at William & Mary where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Kinesiology and a concentration in public health โฆ set William & Mary school records on 10 separate occasions and was a seven-time All-East honoree at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships.
2022: Put together a career-best final season, in spite of an injury in April that broke a string of five consecutive PRs at 400-meters โฆ starting in the indoor season, she had 400m PRs of 55.37, then 54.91, then moving outdoors ran 54.66, then 54.53, and then 54.20 at the Mt. SAC Relays before an injury caused her to miss the next month โฆ PR of 54.20 ranked No. 3 in UW history, and indoor PR of 54.91 also ranked No. 3 all-time indoors โฆ ran the 400m leg on the distance medley relay squad that finished 11th at the NCAA Indoor Championships for Second Team All-America honors โฆ also went to No. 10 in school history in the 200-meters outdoors and indoors, running 24.12 outdoors at the Raleigh Relays, and 24.66 indoors at the WSU Invitational โฆ a wind-aided best of 23.94 at the Mt. SAC Relays โฆ returned from leg injury in time for Pac-12 Championships, placing 19th in the 400m and ninth on the 4x100m relay and 11th on the 4x400m relay โฆ made the cut for NCAA West Prelims, placing 47th overall in the 400m โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member.
2021: In her first season as a Husky, helped the 4x400m relay grab a podium finish at the Pac-12 Championships and qualify for NCAA West Prelims โฆ ranked second on the squad at 400-meters, running a season-best of 55.78 at the Jim Click Shootout โฆ was the anchor leg on the 4x4 that took third at Pac-12s in a time of 3:40.85 โฆ second leg on the 4x4 at NCAA Prelims with the group running a season-best 3:40.14 to finish 20th overall โฆ also scored at Pac-12s on the 4x100m relay which was sixth in 45.63 seconds โฆ on the 4x1 relay that won the Ken Shannon Invite in the No. 5 time in school history, going a season-best 45.47 โฆ won the 400m at the UW-WSU Dual in 56.64, ran a season-best 200-meters of 24.37 for fifth, and was on the winning 4x1 relay in 45.89 โฆ did not compete indoors โฆ made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
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2020 (At William & Mary; Outdoor Season Canceled Due To Covid-19): Broke the 200m, 400m, and 4x400m school records the course of the indoor season ... first W&M women's athlete to earn All-East honors indoors in either the 200m or the 400m ... finished eighth in the 200m and fifth in the 400m at the ECAC Championships ... anchored the 4x400m relay to a school-record and fourth place time for her third All-East honor of the season ... first school record came at Navy in late February, when she ran 55.81 to win the 400m and break her own all-time mark ... improved that to 55.44 in the ECAC prelims and 55.40 in the ECAC finals ... in the 200m, ran a school record 24.56 in the prelims of the ECAC Championships, and improved to 24.43 in the finals ... named second-team All-State as part of the 4x400m relay on the first-ever VaSID Indoor Track & Field all-state team ... Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0 in the fall semester ... chosen as the CAA's Leadership & Sports Excellence Award winner for women's track & field.
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2019 (At William & Mary): Broke her own school record in the 200m dash at the CAA Championships running 24.11 in the prelims ... ran a then-lifetime-best 55.79 in the prelims of the 400m ... finished eighth in the finals of both events ... ran on the Tribe's two relays at the CAA Championships, finishing fifth in both the 4x100m and the 4x400m ... W&M Provost's Award for having a GPA over 3.5 ... CAA Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0 โฆ indoors, was All-East after helping W&M to a fifth-place finish in the 4x400m relay at the ECAC Championships ... broke the 4x4 school record in both the prelims and the finals ... broke three school records individually during the season ... ran 25.05 in the 200m at Penn State to open February, and break the previous record of 25.38 that had stood since 2008 ... the following week at Navy, won both the 200m and the 400m, both in school record time ... in the 400m, ran 55.95 to break the record of 56.11 set in 2017 ... came back to run the 200m in 24.79 to break her own record set the week before.
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2018 (At William & Mary): Broke the school record in the 200m dash outdoors, running 24.38 in the prelims of the CAA Championships and was sixth in the final ... finished 12th in the 100m dash, running a lifetime-best 12.16 seconds, good for No. 3 in school history โฆ qualified for the ECAC 200m, where she finished 12th overall ... finished 11th in the 200m at the Colonial Relays ... ran on each of the four fastest 4x400m relays on the year, including at the ECAC Championships and the CAA Championships ... W&M Provost's Award for having a GPA over 3.5 โฆ indoors, led-off the 4x400m at the ECAC Championships ... best 60m performance was 7.90 at the VMI Winter Relays, ranking her fourth in school history ... best 200m time of 25.42 also came at the VMI Winter Relays, just .04 off the school record.
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2017 (At William & Mary): Redshirted the year recovering from a knee injury โฆ Provostโs Award for having a GPA over 3.5.
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High School and Personal: Born in Greenville, South Carolina โฆ parents are Kathy and Michael Gersch โฆ oldest of four siblings, including brothers Colin and Cooper, and sister Annabelle โฆ a five-time Washington 3A state championships finalist in the 100-meters and 200-meters โฆ as a senior, took seventh in the 100m state finals and fourth in the 200m finals โฆ KingCo 3A champion at both short sprints in 2015 and runner-up in both in 2016 โฆ set 100m personal-best as a senior of 12.33 seconds and 25.10 seconds in the 200-meters โฆ also lettered in soccer โฆ member of the National Honor Society ... honored as a scholarship winner by the Seattle Women's Club Foundation as a senior in 2016 ... member and top philanthropist for the National Charity League, volunteering with a number of organizations including Senior Services, Special Olympics, and Seattle Childrenโs.
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Major Meets
2018 ECAC Indoors โ 12th, 4x400m
2018 CAA Outdoors โ 12th, 100m | 6th, 200m | 5th, 4x400m
2018 ECAC Outdoors โ 12th, 200m | 14th, 4x400m
2019 ECAC Indoors โ 19th, 400m | 5th, 4x400m
2019 CAA Outdoors โ 8th, 200m | 8th, 400m | 5th, 4x100m | 5th, 4x400m
2019 ECAC Outdoors โ 16th, 4x100m | 9th, 4x400m
2020 ECAC Indoors โ 8th, 200m | 5th, 400m | 4th, 4x400m
2021 Pac-12 - 6th, 4x100m | 3rd, 4x400m
2021 NCAA Prelims - 20th, 4x400m
2022 Pac-12 - 19th, 400m | 9th, 4x100m | 11th, 4x400m
2022 NCAA Prelims - 47th, 400m
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Outdoor Bests
100mโฆโฆ.12.16
200mโฆโฆ.23.94w / 24.11
400mโฆโฆ.54.20
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Indoor Bests
60mโฆโฆ.7.90
200mโฆโฆ.24.43
400mโฆโฆ.54.91
Academic Honors
2022ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2022ย Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
Earned her Masters of Public Health in Health Services following four years at William & Mary where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Kinesiology and a concentration in public health โฆ set William & Mary school records on 10 separate occasions and was a seven-time All-East honoree at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships.
2022: Put together a career-best final season, in spite of an injury in April that broke a string of five consecutive PRs at 400-meters โฆ starting in the indoor season, she had 400m PRs of 55.37, then 54.91, then moving outdoors ran 54.66, then 54.53, and then 54.20 at the Mt. SAC Relays before an injury caused her to miss the next month โฆ PR of 54.20 ranked No. 3 in UW history, and indoor PR of 54.91 also ranked No. 3 all-time indoors โฆ ran the 400m leg on the distance medley relay squad that finished 11th at the NCAA Indoor Championships for Second Team All-America honors โฆ also went to No. 10 in school history in the 200-meters outdoors and indoors, running 24.12 outdoors at the Raleigh Relays, and 24.66 indoors at the WSU Invitational โฆ a wind-aided best of 23.94 at the Mt. SAC Relays โฆ returned from leg injury in time for Pac-12 Championships, placing 19th in the 400m and ninth on the 4x100m relay and 11th on the 4x400m relay โฆ made the cut for NCAA West Prelims, placing 47th overall in the 400m โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team โฆ a Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member.
2021: In her first season as a Husky, helped the 4x400m relay grab a podium finish at the Pac-12 Championships and qualify for NCAA West Prelims โฆ ranked second on the squad at 400-meters, running a season-best of 55.78 at the Jim Click Shootout โฆ was the anchor leg on the 4x4 that took third at Pac-12s in a time of 3:40.85 โฆ second leg on the 4x4 at NCAA Prelims with the group running a season-best 3:40.14 to finish 20th overall โฆ also scored at Pac-12s on the 4x100m relay which was sixth in 45.63 seconds โฆ on the 4x1 relay that won the Ken Shannon Invite in the No. 5 time in school history, going a season-best 45.47 โฆ won the 400m at the UW-WSU Dual in 56.64, ran a season-best 200-meters of 24.37 for fifth, and was on the winning 4x1 relay in 45.89 โฆ did not compete indoors โฆ made the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll โฆ named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
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2020 (At William & Mary; Outdoor Season Canceled Due To Covid-19): Broke the 200m, 400m, and 4x400m school records the course of the indoor season ... first W&M women's athlete to earn All-East honors indoors in either the 200m or the 400m ... finished eighth in the 200m and fifth in the 400m at the ECAC Championships ... anchored the 4x400m relay to a school-record and fourth place time for her third All-East honor of the season ... first school record came at Navy in late February, when she ran 55.81 to win the 400m and break her own all-time mark ... improved that to 55.44 in the ECAC prelims and 55.40 in the ECAC finals ... in the 200m, ran a school record 24.56 in the prelims of the ECAC Championships, and improved to 24.43 in the finals ... named second-team All-State as part of the 4x400m relay on the first-ever VaSID Indoor Track & Field all-state team ... Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0 in the fall semester ... chosen as the CAA's Leadership & Sports Excellence Award winner for women's track & field.
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2019 (At William & Mary): Broke her own school record in the 200m dash at the CAA Championships running 24.11 in the prelims ... ran a then-lifetime-best 55.79 in the prelims of the 400m ... finished eighth in the finals of both events ... ran on the Tribe's two relays at the CAA Championships, finishing fifth in both the 4x100m and the 4x400m ... W&M Provost's Award for having a GPA over 3.5 ... CAA Academic Honor Roll for having a GPA over 3.0 โฆ indoors, was All-East after helping W&M to a fifth-place finish in the 4x400m relay at the ECAC Championships ... broke the 4x4 school record in both the prelims and the finals ... broke three school records individually during the season ... ran 25.05 in the 200m at Penn State to open February, and break the previous record of 25.38 that had stood since 2008 ... the following week at Navy, won both the 200m and the 400m, both in school record time ... in the 400m, ran 55.95 to break the record of 56.11 set in 2017 ... came back to run the 200m in 24.79 to break her own record set the week before.
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2018 (At William & Mary): Broke the school record in the 200m dash outdoors, running 24.38 in the prelims of the CAA Championships and was sixth in the final ... finished 12th in the 100m dash, running a lifetime-best 12.16 seconds, good for No. 3 in school history โฆ qualified for the ECAC 200m, where she finished 12th overall ... finished 11th in the 200m at the Colonial Relays ... ran on each of the four fastest 4x400m relays on the year, including at the ECAC Championships and the CAA Championships ... W&M Provost's Award for having a GPA over 3.5 โฆ indoors, led-off the 4x400m at the ECAC Championships ... best 60m performance was 7.90 at the VMI Winter Relays, ranking her fourth in school history ... best 200m time of 25.42 also came at the VMI Winter Relays, just .04 off the school record.
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2017 (At William & Mary): Redshirted the year recovering from a knee injury โฆ Provostโs Award for having a GPA over 3.5.
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High School and Personal: Born in Greenville, South Carolina โฆ parents are Kathy and Michael Gersch โฆ oldest of four siblings, including brothers Colin and Cooper, and sister Annabelle โฆ a five-time Washington 3A state championships finalist in the 100-meters and 200-meters โฆ as a senior, took seventh in the 100m state finals and fourth in the 200m finals โฆ KingCo 3A champion at both short sprints in 2015 and runner-up in both in 2016 โฆ set 100m personal-best as a senior of 12.33 seconds and 25.10 seconds in the 200-meters โฆ also lettered in soccer โฆ member of the National Honor Society ... honored as a scholarship winner by the Seattle Women's Club Foundation as a senior in 2016 ... member and top philanthropist for the National Charity League, volunteering with a number of organizations including Senior Services, Special Olympics, and Seattle Childrenโs.
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Major Meets
2018 ECAC Indoors โ 12th, 4x400m
2018 CAA Outdoors โ 12th, 100m | 6th, 200m | 5th, 4x400m
2018 ECAC Outdoors โ 12th, 200m | 14th, 4x400m
2019 ECAC Indoors โ 19th, 400m | 5th, 4x400m
2019 CAA Outdoors โ 8th, 200m | 8th, 400m | 5th, 4x100m | 5th, 4x400m
2019 ECAC Outdoors โ 16th, 4x100m | 9th, 4x400m
2020 ECAC Indoors โ 8th, 200m | 5th, 400m | 4th, 4x400m
2021 Pac-12 - 6th, 4x100m | 3rd, 4x400m
2021 NCAA Prelims - 20th, 4x400m
2022 Pac-12 - 19th, 400m | 9th, 4x100m | 11th, 4x400m
2022 NCAA Prelims - 47th, 400m
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Outdoor Bests
100mโฆโฆ.12.16
200mโฆโฆ.23.94w / 24.11
400mโฆโฆ.54.20
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Indoor Bests
60mโฆโฆ.7.90
200mโฆโฆ.24.43
400mโฆโฆ.54.91
Academic Honors
2022ย USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2022ย Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2021 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
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Women's 1500m final - 2025 NCAA outdoor track and field championship
Sunday, June 15
Nathan Green | 2025 NCAA 1500m Champion
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