‘I left everything on the track’

Elle Purrier St. Pierre, a 2018 graduate of the University of New Hampshire and member of Team USA, finished 10th in the Summer Olympics final of the women’s 1,500-meter run at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. She crossed the finish line with a time of 4 minutes, 1.75 seconds.

“It was really emotional. I know I gave it my all,” Purrier St. Pierre said in a post-race interview with media. “I left everything on the track. I’m really proud of myself. So, walking off, I wasn’t disappointed. Even though I didn’t make it in the top five, I was really hopeful because I knew that it was a fast heat. It was just waiting for those 10 minutes or so to find out was really stressful, but obviously I’m happy now.”

Purrier St. Pierre is the fifth Wildcat with a tie to the UNH track & field program to represent the United States at the Olympics and was an 11-time All-American and 17-time America East champion across UNH’s cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field teams; she was the NCAA national champion in the mile at the 2018 indoor meet.

She also excelled in the classroom by completing a double major of Nutrition: Wellness and EcoGastronomy in May 2018 with a 3.71 cumulative grade point average.