Cathryn Lariviere of Windham, amidst a standout season for the women’s cross country team at Emmanuel College in Boston, has spent her senior year chasing down records most every time she laces up her running shoes.

A three-sport captain who also participates in indoor and outdoor track and field, Lariviere has broken several program records at Emmanuel and won three of six cross country meets this season.

The Salem High alumna’s accomplishments have garnered her numerous Great Northeast Athletic Conference awards. She has been voted the conference’s women’s cross country runner of the week six times, unprecedented for an Emmanuel College athlete.

“She’s had some ups and downs the first three cross country seasons due to injuries and other health issues,” said her head coach, Tony DaRocha, referring to Lariviere’s season-ending injury during her freshman year, as well as her struggles with asthma. “This was definitely a dream-come-true season for her. She worked hard over the summer and during the season, and the results were beyond what I had expected.”

Her success this season began when she outlasted 95 competitors to win the Massachusetts Maritime’s Travis Fuller Invitational on Sept. 13. Her time, 18 minutes, 52 seconds, set a new Emmanuel College women’s program record for the 5-kilometer distance, helping the Saints to a third-place team finish.

The 2005 SHS grad then finished 20th among 310 entrants at UMass-Dartmouth’s Shriners Invitational on Sept. 20, the best finish ever for an Emmanuel athlete at this meet.

After winning Gordon College’s Pop Crowell Invitational on Oct. 4 – breaking the course record by eight seconds and her own Emmanuel program record by 20 ticks in the process – Lariviere added another first to her collection.

On Nov. 1 at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, Maine, she took the Great Northeast Athletic Conference championship, the only Saint to ever win GNACs. Her course-record time of 19:46, the only sub 20-minute time in the meet and the fourth-best time in conference meet history, easily outdistanced a field of 127 competitors, one of the largest in meet history. Not surprisingly, Lariviere was named the GNAC Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year.

The soon-graduating student-athlete is, perhaps, even better with the books.

She has maintained a 4.0 grade-point average throughout her three-sport collegiate career, winning the Student-Athlete Academic Award all four years at Emmanuel.

“She is a hard-working young lady,” said DaRocha, “Always ready to help her teammates as well as her classmates.”