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2025-26 Track and Field Roster

Jade Ecoffey

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Wounded Knee, S.D.
  • Highschool Red Cloud HS
  • Major Psychology

Biography

Career Honors & Awards
• All-Summit League Indoor (2025: DMR)
• Summit League Commissioner's List (2024-25)
• Summit League Honor Roll (2024-25)
School Records
• Outdoor Distance Medley Relay (11:40.66)
Coyote Indoor Top 10
• 8th in the mile (4:52.56)
• 7th in the Distance Medley Relay (11:54.18)
Coyote Outdoor Top 10
• 9th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:56.21)

Career Bests

2024-25
Cross Country
Ran a personal best in the 6k distance at the Summit League Championships with a time of 22:12.5 to place 24th... Earned a 5k best of 18:41.6 at the Platte River Rumble... placed ninth at the Coyote Invite with a time of 19:02... Competed at hte NCAA Midwest Regional, running 22:29.3.

Indoor Track & Field
All-Summit League in the distance medley relay with a time of 11:54.18 at the Summit League Championships... added personal bests in the mile (4:52.56) and the 5,000 (18:07.7) at the championships... placed inside the top 10 in all but one race during the season... took second in the mile at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational (4:57.88) and the SDSU Indoor Classic (4:55.6)... added a third place finish in the 1,000 at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational with a time of 2:53.41.

Outdoor Track & Field
Competed in two events at the Summit League Championships… placed seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a clocking of 11:12.87… ran a personal best of 10:56.21 in the steeple at the Drake Relays… placed second at the Mt. SAC Relays in the 1,500-meters with a personal best time of 4:33.55… helped set the school record in the distance medley relay with a time of 11:40.66 at the Drake Relays… totaled six top-10 finishes during the season.

2023-24
Cross Country
Did not compete...redshirted.

Indoor Track & Field
Did not compete...redshirted.

Outdoor Track & Field
Did not compete...redshirted.

Prep
A four-time state champion who also participates in basketball and rodeo ... claimed the Class A state title in the 1,600 and 3,200 as a sophomore and junior ... a six-time state placer in state cross country, finishing third as a senior, leading Red Cloud to fourth as a team in Class A ... helped basketball team qualify for state tournament twice and competed in the state rodeo finals ... National Honors Society member ... owns personal bests of 5:09 in the 1,600 and 11:09 in the 3,200.

Personal
Daughter of Trudy and Lee Ecoffey ... psychology major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

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  • 2024-25Sophomore

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  • 2025-26Junior

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