Ariel Traver
Ariel Traver
  • Height:
    5'8"
  • Year:
    2023
  • Hometown:
    Palo Alto, Calif.
  • High School:
    Henry M. Gunn Senior
  • Position:
    Jumps/Sprints
  • Major:
    Computer Science

Bio

 

Link to TFFRS.org Career Statistics

 Collegiate Career Honors:
  • 2x NEWMAC Women's Track & Field Academic All-Conference Team (2021, 2022)
2022-23:
Outdoor Track & Field:
  • Opened outdoor season with a 10th place finish in the triple jump at Emory Thrills in the Hills (10.30m)
  • Took ninth place in the triple jump at the Coast Guard Invitational (10.14m)
  • Earned second in the triple jump (9.96m) and sixth in the long jump at the Wellesley Tri-Meet (4.54m)
  • Had personal-bests in the long jump (4.83m) and triple jump (10.45m) at the NEWMAC Championship
Indoor Track & Field:
  • Made season debut with third place finish in the triple jump and seventh place finish in the long jump against Smith and Mount Holyoke (10.20m, 4.46m)
2021-22:
Outdoor Track & Field:
  • Competed in the TJ and LJ at the 2022 NEWMAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Indoor Track & Field:
  • Finished sixth in the TJ with a 9.20m performance 
  • Competed in the LJ and TJ at the Wheaton Invitational
2020-21:
Track & Field: 
  • Did not participate due to Covid-19 Pandemic

2019-20:
Indoor Track & Field: 
  • Made six appearances in the indoor season
  • Set three personal bests
  • Finished the tripple jump with a distance of 9.59m and the 200m with a time of 31.59 at the Smith Winter Classic
  • Finished the long jump with a distance of 4.16m at the Tufts Cupid Challenge
Before Wellesley: 
  • Attended Henry M. Gunn Senior High School, graduated in 2019
  • Was captain of the long and triple jump team
  • Was first flute in wind ensemble
  • Founded a nonprofit for teaching CS in East Palo Alto
  • Taught CS to refugees ages 15-18 in Lesvos, Greece, for four weeks
  • Learned french for four years, studied for a month in France and two weeks in Senegal
  • Participated in Stanford Relay for Life for two years
Personal: 
  • Daughter of Dr. Christopher Traver and Dr. Erica Weirich
  • Has three half-siblings, Austin, Madeleine, and Cole
  • Has a German Shepherd and an Irish Wolfhound who is 6'3" when he stands up
  • Misses her cats
  • Wants to be a professor one day