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2024-25 Women's Track & Field Roster

Denise Depierro
Brian Foley

Rachel Barba

  • Events Mid-Distance
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Lake Oswego, Ore,
  • Highschool Lakeridge

Biography

CAREER RESULTS

CAREER HONORS
• America East Champion - 800m (2025 Outdoor)
• America East All-Conference 800m (2025 Outdoor)
• America East All-Conference 800m (2024 Indoor)

• America East Commissioners Honor Roll (2024-25)
• America East Academic Honor Roll (2022-23, 2023-24)


JUNIOR OUTDOOR SEASON (2025): Opened the season at the Fred Hardy Invitational and placed 30th and 35th in the 400 and 1500 (Mar. 20-21) … Logged eighth and 13th in the 1500 and 800 at the Colonial Relays (Apr. 4-5) … Finished second in the 800 at the UMass Commonwealth Invitational (Apr. 12) … Recorded second and fourth place in the 1500 and 4x400 relay at the George Davis Invitational (Apr. 19) …  Won the 800 and came in third in the 4x400 relay at the UMass Pre-Conference Meet (Apr. 25) … Won the America East title in the 800 and came in fifth in the 4x400 relay at the America East Championships (May 3-4) … Came in fourth in the 1500 at the NEICAAA Championships (May 10) … Ran to a sixth-place finish in the ECAC Championships (May 18).

JUNIOR INDOOR SEASON (2025): Did not compete in any meets.

SOPHOMORE OUTDOOR SEASON (2024): Opened the season with a victory in the 1500 and a second-place finish in the 400 at the UMass Lowell Invitational (Mar. 30) … Logged 13th in the 800 at the Pacific Coast Invitational (Apr. 11) … Recorded a personal best of 2:13.72 in the 800 at the Bryan Clay Invitational (Apr. 12) … Placed 12th in the 1500 at the George Davis Invitational (Apr. 20) … Finished fourth in the 400 at the UNH Pre-Conference Invitational (Apr. 27).

SOPHOMORE INDOOR SEASON (2024): Opened the season with a fourth and fifth place finish in the 4x400 relay and the 1000 at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener (Dec. 2) … Won the mile and placed fourth with the 4x400 relay team at the Dartmouth December Invite (Dec. 9) … Recorded two third place finishes in the 800 and distance medley relay at the Middlebury Winter Classic (Jan. 20) … Finished the mile in sixth at the River Hawk Invitational (Jan. 26) … Claimed a 18th place finish in the 1000 at the John Thomas Terrier Classic (Jan. 27) … Logged two ninth place finishes in the 4x400 relay and the 800 at the Scarlet Knight Open (Feb. 3) … Placed 138th in the 800 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational (Feb. 10) … Finished in third in the 800 at the America East Championships (Feb. 20) 

FIRST-YEAR OUTDOOR SEASON (2023): Began the season with a third-place finish in the 800m (2:24.71) at UMass Lowell (Mar. 24) ... Placed second in the 800m (2:23.71) and ran a leg on the runner-up 4x400m relay team (4:12.76) at the UVM Quad Meet (Apr. 8) ... Logged her second-fastest 400m time of the season, finishing third with a mark of 1:00.41 at the Commonwealth Invite (Apr. 15) ... Raced to a personal-best 400m time of 59.42s and ran on the winning 4x400m relay team at the UMass Pre-Conference Invite (Apr. 29) ... Logged a personal-best 800m time of 2:18.23 in the prelims at the America East Championships (May 6).

FIRST-YEAR INDOOR SEASON (2023): Opened the season with a runner-up finish and a time of 2:34.26 in the 800m at New Hampshire (Dec. 4) ... Placed second in the 500m (1:24.61) and ran on the winning 4x400m relay team at Dartmouth (Dec. 9) ... Recorded a runner-up finish in the women's 800m with a time of 1:22.61 at the Middlebury Winter Classic (Jan. 21) ... Ran a 200-meter time of 27.79s at UNH (Feb. 9) ... Logged a personal-best 500m time of 1:18.45, and raced in the 4x400m and DMR in the America East Championships (Feb. 18 & 19).

BEFORE VERMONT: Ran Cross Country and track and field for 4 years, as well as swimming for 4 years...Cross Country team won the Three Rivers League Champions in 2021 and 2022...Was named swim team and track and field captain her senior year...Was selected to the Second Team All-League for Cross Country in 2018 and received honorable mentions in 2019 and 2021...placed 6th at 6A OSAA State Championships in the 200 freestyle relay in 2022...placed 4th in the 800 at Three Rivers League Championships in 2018 and 12th place at the OSAA 6A State Championships in the 400

PERSONAL: Rachel is the youngest of 4 siblings...was featured in her local newspaper, the Lake Oswego Review...is a neuroscience major...knows how to wakesurf

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Mid-Distance
  • 2024-25Junior

    Mid-Distance