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2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster

Avery Saunder

Avery Saunder

  • Position:
    Distance
  • Class:
    Junior
  • Highschool:
    Lanse Creuse
  • Hometown:
    Chesterfield, Mich.

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results & Top Times
 

Career Highlights:

  • 2x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2023, 2024)
  • Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2024)
  • Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2025)

2025 Outdoor:
  • Did not compete in any races

2024-25 Indoor: 
  • Recorded a time of 12:51.03 for 22nd at the SVSU Classic
  • Was 30th in the 800m (2:48.36) and 33rd in the mile (6:06.58) at EMU's Bob Parks Memorial

2024 Outdoor:
  • Posted a season-best 2:36.85 for 12th in the 800m and was 22nd in the 1,500m in 5:23.78 at Eastern Illinois' Big Blue Classic
  • Ran a season-low 11:33.46 for 10th in the 3,000m at the Chippewa Challenge
  • Recorded a pair of PR's at the Horizon League championships running the 1,500m in 5:18.23 for 35th and the 5,000m in 19:39.99 for 32nd

2023-24 Indoor:
  • Made her track debut running 2:27.75 for eighth in the 800m at the SVSU Classic
  • Tallied a time of 2:40.07 for 25th in the 800m at Michigan's Silverston Invitational

Prior To Detroit Mercy:
  • Earned letters in cross country and track and field
  • All-Academic all four years
  • Guided her team to a MAC Blue title in track and field in 2021 and 2022
  • Helped the 4x800-meter relay to a MAC Blue first-place finish in 2002 and runner-up in 2023
  • Also placed second in the 1600 and 3200m at the 2022 and 2023 MAC Blue championships
  • Ran club with the Utica Bay Crusaders

Personal:
  • Daughter of Lisah and Trent Desenglau 
  • Has two older brothers
  • Chose Detroit Mercy because she loved the city of Detroit and it's not far from her hometown
  • A Bio-Chemistry major

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Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    Distance
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Distance
  • 2025-26Junior

    Distance