ellie

TFRRS Performance Profile

Career Accolades

  • First-team indoor All-American in the distance medley relay 
  • World Under-20 Championships bronze medalist
  • Greek under-20 800 record-holder
  • Two-time NCAA West Region XC champions (2022, 2023)
  • Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (T&F 2022, 2023)
  • Five-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (T&F 2021; winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)

Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)

  • 800: 2:03.47
  • 1,500: 4:17.36
  • Mile: 4:39.45
  • 400: 55.65

As a Senior (2023-24)
Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • Did not compete

As a Junior (2022-23)
Outdoors

  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the 800
  • Earned highest Pac-12 finish, placing fourth in the 800
  • Ran season 800 best of 2:05.42, for fifth at the Payton Jordan Invite
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Ran a season 800 best of 2:03.79 at the Ken Shannon Invitational
  • Moved to No. 5 on Stanford's all-time indoor list
  • Earned mile PB of 4:39.45 at the Razorback Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country * NCAA West Region Champions

  • Ran one race, at the Bronco Invitational

As a Sophomore (2021-22)
Outdoors 

  • Earned her first individual NCAA appearance by running a PB 2:03.47 at the NCAA West Prelims, placing 11th overall
  • Her time placed her No. 6 at Stanford all-time
  • Placed fifth in the Pac-12 final in the 800 in 2:05.07 after winning her heat in 2:03.48
  • Anchored Stanford to a 4x400 victory against Cal in the Big Meet
  • Set a PB in the 1,500 of 4:17.36 to place fourth at the Stanford Invitational
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Spring All-Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Earned first-team All-America honors in the distance medley relay
  • Ran the third leg (800 meters) with a 2:03.77 split as Stanford placed second in 10:53.37
  • The time was the 11th-fastest in collegiate history and No. 2 all-time at Stanford
  • Ran a season best in the 800 of 2:06.87 at the Husky Classic, placing eighth
  • Second in the 800 at the Pac-12 Invitational (2:06.92)
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll

Cross Country

  • Did not compete

As a Freshman (2020-21)
Outdoors

  • Third in the 800 for Greece at the World Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2:04.66
  • Placed fourth at the European under-20 championships in 2:04.11
  • Broke Greek under-20 800 record
  • Moved to No. 4 800 on Stanford freshman list
  • Big Meet 800 winner
  • Won twice in her collegiate outdoor debut, in the 1,500 and anchoring 4x400 at the Hornet Invitational
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Won the 800 (2:08.86) at the Championships at the Peak at Air Force in collegiate debut

Cross Country

  • Did not compete

International/National Competition

  • Third in the 800 at the World Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2:04.66
  • Placed fourth at the 2021 European U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, setting a Greek U20 record of 2:04.11
  • Captured the under-18 400 title while representing Greece at the 2018 Balkan Outdoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Runner-up in the 2020 Balkan U20 indoor meet in the 800
  • Competed for Greece at the World Gymnasiade, an international multi-sport event for school-age athletes, in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2018

Prior to Stanford

  • Second at the 2020 Greek senior national indoor championships in the 800
  • 2019 Greek national under-23 outdoor champion in the 800
  • Won seven national championships, in the 400, 800, and 4x400 in the U18 to U23 age groups
  • A 2020 graduate of Athens College in Psychiko, Greece

Personal

  • Parents are Eleftherios Deligiannis and Angela Lyrintzis 
  • Has a younger sibling, Filippos Deligiannis
  • First Greek track and field athlete at Stanford since pole vaulter Katerina Stefanidi '12, the 2016 Olympic women's champion
  • Volunteered with the HOME Project, tutoring young refugee girls in theater, art, and physical education

Career Results

YearSeason (Meets)EventSeason BestConf.RegionNCAA
2023-24Cross Country (0)----------
2022-23Outdoors (6)8002:05.424 (2:06.20)32 (2:07.67)--
1,5004:19.47------
4x4003:49.10------
Indoors (4)8002:03.79------
Mile4:39.45------
4x4003:45.42------
DMR11:10.89------
Cross Country (1)6K21:31.6------
2021-22Outdoors (5)8002:03.475 (2:05.07)11 (2:03.47)23 (2:07.21)
1,5004:17.36------
4x4003:42.508 (3:42.50)----
Indoors (5)8002:06.87------
Mile4:47.53------
DMR10:53.37----2 (10:53.37)
Cross Country (0)----------
2020-21Outdoors (9)8002:04.1115 (2:08.57)15 (2:05.80)--
1,5004:22.33------
4x4003:46.7010 (3:48.70)----
Indoors (1)8002:08.86------
Cross Country (0)----------