Wake Forest Athletics
2016-17 Track and Field Roster

Jen Esposito
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- High School:
- Mansfield HS
- Hometown:
- Mansfield, Mass.
Career Honors
2017 Outdoor Second Team All-ACC (400m hurdles)
Outdoor Personal Bests
400m Hurdles – 57.04 – 2016 NCAA East Regionals
400m – 55.03 – 2016 CAA Championships
Indoor Personal Bests
200m – 25.37—2016 Spire Invitational
400m – 54.61 – 2016 ECAC Indoor Championships
800m – 2:13.04 – 2016 UNCG Spartans Team Challenge
2017
Capped her graduate season with a 21st-place finish at the NCAA East Preliminary Round...Totaled six first-place finishes on the season (Four 400m hurdles, one 400m, one 4x400m)...Ran a season-best time of 58.78 at the ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, where she finished fourth and earned Second Team All-ACC honors.
2016
Completed undergrad at Elon University where she was the 2016 CAA Champion in 400m hurdles, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay…Named 2016 All-CAA for 400m hurdles, 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay…Placed first in 400m hurdles at the Raleigh Relays…2016 NCAA East region Qualifier in 400m hurdles…Placed first at six different meets in 400m hurdles.
2015
CAA Champion in 400m hurdles…All-CAA 400m hurdles, 2015 NCAA East Region Qualifer in 400m hurdles.
2014
2014 SoCon Champion in 400m hurdles...NCAA East Region Qualifer in 400m hurdles.
High School
Attended Mansfield High School where she earned 12 varsity letters, including four in soccer, four in outdoor track, three in indoor track and one in gymnastics…Holds the school record in the 55, 300 and 400 meter hurdles…Won the Massachusetts Division 2 State Indoor title in the 55 Hurdles in 2011 and 2012…Also won the Massachusetts D2 Championship in the 400 meter hurdles for three consecutive years from 2010-12…Won the 2012 Massachusetts State Championship in the 400 meter hurdles…Two-time New England Champion of the 300 meter hurdles…Has the Massachusetts and New England all-time best mark in the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 42.82…Coached by Pete Schuder.
Personal
Daughter of Joe and Beth Esposito…Has a brother, Brian, who attends Villanova and a sister, Kelly, who attends Providence College…Originally from Mansfield, Mass…Graduated from Elon in 2016...Working towards a Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies at Wake Forest.
2017 Outdoor Second Team All-ACC (400m hurdles)
Outdoor Personal Bests
400m Hurdles – 57.04 – 2016 NCAA East Regionals
400m – 55.03 – 2016 CAA Championships
Indoor Personal Bests
200m – 25.37—2016 Spire Invitational
400m – 54.61 – 2016 ECAC Indoor Championships
800m – 2:13.04 – 2016 UNCG Spartans Team Challenge
2017
Capped her graduate season with a 21st-place finish at the NCAA East Preliminary Round...Totaled six first-place finishes on the season (Four 400m hurdles, one 400m, one 4x400m)...Ran a season-best time of 58.78 at the ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, where she finished fourth and earned Second Team All-ACC honors.
2016
Completed undergrad at Elon University where she was the 2016 CAA Champion in 400m hurdles, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay…Named 2016 All-CAA for 400m hurdles, 4x100m relay and 4x400m relay…Placed first in 400m hurdles at the Raleigh Relays…2016 NCAA East region Qualifier in 400m hurdles…Placed first at six different meets in 400m hurdles.
2015
CAA Champion in 400m hurdles…All-CAA 400m hurdles, 2015 NCAA East Region Qualifer in 400m hurdles.
2014
2014 SoCon Champion in 400m hurdles...NCAA East Region Qualifer in 400m hurdles.
High School
Attended Mansfield High School where she earned 12 varsity letters, including four in soccer, four in outdoor track, three in indoor track and one in gymnastics…Holds the school record in the 55, 300 and 400 meter hurdles…Won the Massachusetts Division 2 State Indoor title in the 55 Hurdles in 2011 and 2012…Also won the Massachusetts D2 Championship in the 400 meter hurdles for three consecutive years from 2010-12…Won the 2012 Massachusetts State Championship in the 400 meter hurdles…Two-time New England Champion of the 300 meter hurdles…Has the Massachusetts and New England all-time best mark in the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 42.82…Coached by Pete Schuder.
Personal
Daughter of Joe and Beth Esposito…Has a brother, Brian, who attends Villanova and a sister, Kelly, who attends Providence College…Originally from Mansfield, Mass…Graduated from Elon in 2016...Working towards a Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies at Wake Forest.
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