2025-26 Track and Field Roster

Rudecia Bernard Track and Field Roster

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Class Graduate Student/Senior
Hometown Dedham, MA
High School Dedham/Brown
Rudecia Bernard - Track and Field - Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Bio

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • 2026 All-ACC Second Team – Indoor High Jump

PRIOR TO NOTRE DAME (at BROWN)

2025 Outdoor: Did not compete.

2024-2025 Indoor: Did not compete.

2024 Outdoor: Qualified for the NCAA East First Round… tied the second-best high jump mark in school history with 1.79 meters

2023-2024 Indoor: First team All-Ivy in the high jump… set the third-best high jump mark in school history with 1.80 meters at the Dr. Sander Invitational Columbia Challenge

PREP AND PERSONAL

  • Three-time team MVP at Dedham High School
  • New England Championship medalist
  • Two-time All-State Championship runner-up
  • Three-time MIAA Division 4 champion
  • Four-time Tri-Valley First Team All-Star
  • AP Scholar with Honor
  • Massachusetts Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish Language recipient
  • Three-time National Spanish Exam gold medalist
  • Received the Frederic Chopin Award for Excellence in Piano Performance
  • Daughter of Rudolph and Alecia Buchanan-Bernard
  • Has two brothers, Cameron and Corey
  • Corey competed on the track and field team at Stonehill College