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Pomona-Pitzer Athletics

2012 Women's Track and Field

Leslie Canter

Leslie Canter

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    St. Stephen's School
  • Hometown:
    Austin, TX

Summary

Biography

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed her senior season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Track and Field team, where she competes in the 5K and steeplechase...Transferred to Pomona-Pitzer from NYU...Broke school steeplechase record in 2012 (11:41.73) and finished eighth in the event at SCIAC Championships...High School: Attended Saint Stephens Episcopal School in Austin, Texas...Competed on the track, volleyball, tennis, swimming and field hockey teams for the Spartans...Was captain of the varsity swim team, and earned the Sportsmanship Ward for the the Saint Stephens Tennis Academy...Graduated with honors...Personal: Attending Pitzer College, where she majors in philosophy...Has two brothers and one sister...Brother Logan plays rubgy at the University of Texas...Hobbies include traveling, writing surfing, painting, splashing around in the ocean, walking, hiking and hunting for stories...Lists The Sound of Music as her favorite movie...Favorite authors are Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf...Lists "English As a Second Language Pedagogy", "Enlightment Literature" and "The Art of Living" as the most interesting courses she has taken while at Pitzer...Hopes to enter a career in media or public relations after graduation...Organized an aid trip to the Irrawaddy Delta, Burma to teach English and construct a school...Spearheaded fundraising efforts in the Shan Kwin Gyi village in 2008 and 2009...Taught English as a second language at Newcomer School in Ontario, then returned to Southeast Asia to teach refugees from Burma and work on an upstart NGO focusing on educating refugee women from Burma...Born November 14, 1989 in Houston.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2010Sophomore

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  • 2011Junior

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  • 2012Senior

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