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2007: Earned All-America honors by recording a fifth place finish at the NCAA Championship meet, the best finish ever by a WSU women's cross country runner ... earned First Team All-GLIAC honors after winning the conference meet by 35 seconds ... NCAA Regional Individual Champion by nearly 20 seconds ... selected GLIAC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week on Sept. 11, Sept. 18 and Oct. 2 ... was WSU's top runner at the GLIAC Championship helping the Warriors to a second-place finish (the best in school history) ... repeated as champion of the Tommy Titan Invitational .. won four of the five meets she competed in ... named to the GLIAC All-Academic team ... was named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic team ... was a recipient of the Fall 2007 GLIAC Commissioner's Award.
2006: GLIAC All-Academic Team ... named GLIAC Runner of the Week (10/10) ... Named to First Team All-GLIAC ... earned Great Lakes All-Region honors after placing fourth at the NCAA Regionals (top-15 are named All-Region) ... earned All-America honors after placing 14th in the NCAA Championships ... GLIAC All-Academic Team ... competed in all seven meets ... had three first-place finishes (Tommy Titan Invitational, Paul Short Invitational and Michigan Intercollegiate) ... led the team in every race ... all other races except Nationals she came in top-five (UP Collegiate Opener, 4th; Mel Brodt Invitational, 2nd; GLIAC Championships, 2nd; and NCAA Regional, 4th) ... came in 14th place at Nationals to earn All-America honors, the second-highest female performance in Wayne State history at that time.
2005: Was the top-finishing Warrior in five of her six races ... placed eighth or better in her first four races, including a second-place run at the C.C. Only Nationals 6k (Sept. 24) ... finished 17th at the NCAA Regional.
High School: A 2005 graduate of Holy Names in Windsor ... participated in cross country, soccer and track for the Knights ... finished first in the city cross country meet both in 2002 and 2005 ... won the city championship in the 800m, 1500m and 3000m in 2003 ... was 14th in the Canadian Nationals in 2005 at 3000m ... helped squad to a third-place finish at Canadian Nationals as a sophomore finishing 35th individually ... was All-Ontario in cross country in 2002 and track (3000m) in 2003.
Personal: Full name--Rachelle M. Malette ... born November 3, 1987, in Detroit ... daughter of Renee Malette and the late John Malette ... has a younger brother, John, and two sisters, Jacqueline and Gabrielle ... Jacqueline runs cross country and track at the University of Windsor ... is a pharmacy major ... named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (term gpa 3.5+) for Fall 2005 and Winter 2006 ... serves on the student-athlete advisory committee (SAAC).
| Rachelle Malette's Career Statistics | ||||||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | ||||
| Meet | Time | Place | Time | Place | Time | Place |
| UP Collegiate Opener | 19:47 | 4th | ||||
| Iowa - 3k | 10:55 | 8th | ||||
| Kansas Invitational - 6k | DNR | |||||
| Detroit Mercy - 5k | 18:48 | 5th | 18:31 | 1st | 17:57 | 1st |
| Mel Brodt Invitational | 18:35 | 2nd | ||||
| Wis.-Parkside - 5k | 18:47 | 5th | 17:36 | 1st | ||
| CC Only Nationals - 6k | 22:28.32 | 2nd | ||||
| Lehigh/Paul Short - 6k | 22:05.0 | 80th | 21:44 | 1st | ||
| Louisville Classic - 5k | 17:20.82 | 3rd | ||||
| Michigan Intercollegiate - 6k | 18:51 | 1st | 22:09.5 | 1st | ||
| GLIAC Championship - 6k | 21:10.8 | 2nd | 22:00.17 | 1st | ||
| NCAA Regional - 6k | 22:37.7 | 17th | 21:48 | 4th | 21:12.33 | 1st |
| NCAA Championship | 20:46 | 14th | 20:48.7 | 5th | ||