2025 Women's Track and Field Roster

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Nathalie Lavender

  • Position Mid Distance/Distance
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Athens, Ga.

Biography

Lavender at TFRRS 

2024

Indoor
  • Came in 11th place in the mile run (5:46) at the SoCon Championship
  • Opened the year with a 5:51 mile run at the VMI Team Challenge and helped the DMR to 9th place
  • Logged a 5:44 mile run for 13th place at the VMI Winter Classic
  • Ran the 800m at the VMI Invitational and helped the DMR to fifth place in 13:41 
Outdoor
  • Received a Faculty Scholarship for Merit, recognizing academic performance by rising first and second class
    cadets
  • Named to the SoCon Academic Honor Roll and Spring Academic All-Conference Team
  • Came in 13th in the 1500m in 5:13 at the SoCon Championships
  • Earned a 400m PR time of 1:08 for 24th place at the JMU Invitational
  • Opened the season competing in the 800m and 1500m at the Fred Hardy Invite
  • Competed in the 800m and 1500m at the George Mason Invite
2023
Indoor
  • Competed in the DMR at the SoCon Championships, helping the squad to eighth place in 13:26.33 
  • Opened the year with a 600m PR time of 1:51.81 for 14th place at the VMI Team Challenge 
  • Helped 4x400 to fifth place in 4:08 at the VMI Winter Relays Feb. 3 
  • Ran a leg of the DMR at Liberty's Darius Dixon Invite, helping team to fourth place in 13:11.31
Outdoor
  • Opened the season with a mile PR time of 5:28.98 for 16th place at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invite in Myrtle Beach 
  • Followed with a 1500m PR time of 5:03.78 at High Point's VertKlasse Meeting Mar. 31
  • Logged a 800m PR time of 2:28.07 for seventh place at the App State Open Apr. 28

High School: Nathalie is a Georgia commit that is relatively new to distance running. She placed seventh at the Georgia Private school championship with a 1600m PR 5:23.68. Nathalie is coached by VMI Alum Neville Anderson.
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2023Freshman

    Mid Distance/Distance
  • 2024Sophomore

    Mid Distance/Distance
  • 2025Junior

    Mid Distance/Distance