During the 2024 indoor track season, times set by Kelley, Sarussi, and graduate student Danielle Schultz made the WashU trio three of the 15 fastest runners in the 800 in all of Division III. Their success is emblematic of over a decade of dominance by the WashU track & field team’s women’s 400/800 meter training group.
In April of 2017, Emma Kelley stepped on the track to run the 800-meter at the Charlie Beck Invitational hosted by University City High School. She was a freshman on