As a Scripps senior, Ellyn Erving ’14 did it all. She led the women’s Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Track and Field team to a NCAA championship, jumped a personal best at a national meet, completed her senior thesis, made the dean’s list, and earned All-American honors.聽
“She is an outstanding role model,” says Kendra Reimer, head coach of the . “It’s been my pleasure to watch her develop as an athlete and as a leader throughout her four years here.”
An anthropology major at Scripps, Erving was a captain of the women’s track and field team this year and led it to a championship in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), the NCAA’s Division III athletic conference.
This year, Erving, who is from Seattle, reached several athletic and academic milestones. Academically, she completed her senior thesis on “The Sharing Economy: Exploring the Intersection of Collaborative Consumption and Capitalism,” and she made the dean’s list last fall. During her four years at Scripps, she earned the Alexa Fullerton Hampton ’42 Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded to a deserving student.
“Scripps showed me how to be confident in my abilities and how to own my strengths both on and off the field and track allowed me to demonstrate my tenacity and grit,” Erving says. “I am proud to be a Scripps alumna, and I am thankful for all of the opportunities of the last four years.”聽
At the NCAA Track & Field Championships in May, Erving jumped a personal best in the triple jump (39’9.75″) to finish fifth nationally before ultimately earning All-American honors. At the Cal-Nevada championship meet in April, she placed third to earn a spot on the medals podium alongside NCAA Division I competitors.
She appears three times on the CMS all-time “Top 10 List,” which tracks the top 10 best marks in CMS’ history. She ranks third in the long jump; second in the triple jump, and fifth in the 4 x 400m relay. To cap off a stellar year, Erving received the All-SCIAC Character Award and the SCIAC Female Field Athlete of the Year Award.聽
“As a coach, it is the ultimate dream to see your athlete compete at their best in the final meet of their collegiate career, and that is exactly what Ellyn did. She gave her all during her four years as a student-athlete and she went out with a bang,” Reimer says.