2015 Track:
Indoor: Placed 10th in the 3,000 meters with a career-best time of 10:13.12 at the Samford University Invitational. Outdoor: Ran a PR (2:14.28) in the 800m at the Georgia Tech Invite … Recorded a career-best time in the 1,500 meters (4:30.33) at the ACC Championships.
2014 Track:
Indoor: Set a personal-best in the 3,000 meters with a time of 10:18.92 at the Southern Miss Cupid Classic … Helped the DMR to a fourth place finish (12:17.80) at the Samford Invite. Outdoor: Ran to a personal-best time of 4:50.74 in the 1,500 meters at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Set a personal best in the 5,000 meters (18:29.52) at the Alabama Relays.
2013 Cross Country:
Recorded a career-best 6K time of 22:40 at the Furman Classic … Also finished the UGA Invitational 5K in a season-best 19:36.
2013 Track:
Indoor: Ran the 3,000 meters in 10:45.08 at the Auburn Invite. Outdoor: Placed 11th in the 1,500 meters (5:00.90) at the Georgia Relays … Ran a season-best 5K of 19:03.40 at the Alabama Relays.
2012 Cross Country:
Did not compete.
2012 Track:
Indoor: Completed the 3,000 meters in 10:40.25 at the Kentucky Invite … Improved on that time at the Rod McCravy Invite, finishing the same event in 10:34.05 … Ran the mile in 5:18.04 at the VT Elite Invite … Finished the final leg of the 3rd placing 4×400 relay team at the Vulcan Invite. Outdoor: Led all Tech women at the Tiger Track Relays in the 3,000 meters with a time of 10:50.21 … Finished the 5,000 meter run at the Last Chance Qualifiers with a time of 19:02.24.
2011 Cross Country:
Logged a time of 19:55.94 in the first 5K of the season at the UGA Invite … Improved that time to a season-best 19:10.86 at the Charlotte Invite … Raced to a season-best 6K time of 23:44.03 at the Clemson Invite.
High School:
A four-year track letterwinner and a three-year cross country letter winner at Stone Ridge High School in Bethesda, Md. … Two-time track captain and one-time cross country captain … Named All-ISL League for cross country in her senior season … Team MVP in her junior and senior seasons …Set the school record in the 1,600 and the 3,200 meters … Also a piano player.
Personal:
Full name is Diana Grace Pressel … Born on April 17, 1993 in Rockville, Md. … Parents are Paul and Marie Pressel … Has one sister, Anastasia … Attended Georgia Tech because of the strong academic reputational with outstanding engineering and science programs, the strong Division I athletics in the ACC and the beautiful campus in the south right in downtown Atlanta … Starting running in the spring of her freshman year in high school … Majors in industrial engineering.
