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2021-22 Women's Track & Field Roster

Eakin Howard / RIT Athletic Comm

Marissa Dispenza

  • Position Sprints
  • Height 5-6
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Batavia, NY
  • Highschool Batavia
  • Major Sustainable Engineering

Biography

2017-18: Competed in multiple sprint events during the indoor and outdoor season … set career-best in the 100-meters hurdles (15.48) … finished in the top-ten 25 times … was on the winning 4x400 relay team at the Indoor Liberty League Championship … finished third in the 100 and 400-meter hurdles at the Liberty League Outdoor Championship … was on the 4x400 relay team that finished fifth at the Atlantic Region Track and Field Outdoor Championship breaking a school record of 3:59:07… placed fifth in the 400-meter hurdles at the Atlantic Region Track and Field Outdoor Championship … named to the Liberty League All-Academic Team for maintaining a 3.30 grade-point average.

2016-17: Competed in multiple sprint events during the indoor and outdoor season … finished first in the finals of the 100-meter hurdles at the Liberty League Championship … finished in the top-5 forty-two times … … was named to Liberty League Spring All-Academic team … broke the school record in the 400-meter hurdles … earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors for the 2016-17 season.

Before RIT: Ran at Batavia High School … was an indoor/outdoor sectional champion in 2014-15 … was also an All-Greater Rochester and first team All-County selection.
 
Personal:
Chemical engineering major … daughter of Michelle Wilson and Joesph Dispenza … has three siblings, Joseph, Jose, and Joseph Martinez.

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16First Year

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2016-17Sophomore

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2019-20Senior

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2021Senior

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2021-22Graduate Student

    Sprints
    5'6"