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2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster

Simone Bessong

  • Event Sprints
  • Class Freshman
  • Hometown Florence, Ky.
  • Highschool Tatnall School

Biography

High School
  • Tatnall School Varsity Track & Field (2024, 2025)
  • 2024 Outdoor - 1st Team All-County (100), 1st Team All-State
  • 2024 Outdoor & Indoor Delaware State Champions 
  • 2024 - 4x1 State Champions, 4x1 Meet of Champs Champions, 4x1 County Champions
  • 2025 - Indoor 4x4 State Champions, Outdoor 4x4 Meet of Champs Champions
  • 2025 Indoor - 55m All-State, 200m, All-State, 400m All-State, 4x4m All-State
  • 2025 Outdoor - 100m All-State, 200m All-State, 4x4 All-State, 1st Team All County (100m)
  • Randall K. Cooper High School Varsity Track (2021-2023)
  • 2021 Outdoor - 1st Team All-Conference, 1st Team All-County, 1st Team All-Region, 1st Team All-Area, 1st Team All-State
  • 2023 Outdoor - 1st Team All-Region, 2nd Team All-State
  • 2021 Outdoor 4x4 Regional Champions
  • School Record Randall K. Cooper - 200m (24.92)
  • School Record Tatnall School -  55m (7.15 - 2025 Indoor State Champion), 60m (7.64), 300 (40.30), Indoor 200m (24.64), Indoor 400m (57.54 - 2025 State Champion), 100m (11.89), 200m (24.36), 4x1 (47.70), 4x4 (3:51.61)
  • Ran for Truspeed Athletics (2023, 2024)
  • 2022 - All A Honor Roll, Academic Excellence in English I Honors, Academic Excellence in AP Human Geography
  • 2023 - National Honor Society Recognition, All A Honor Roll, Gold Honor National German exam, AP Scholar w/ African American National recognition Program, Academic Excellence Award in English, Academic Excellence Award in German.
  • 2024 - University of Rochester Frederick Douglass and Susan B Anthony Award for History, Rensselaer Award for Math/Science, High Honors, AATG Gold Medal - German Exam
  • 2025 - High Honors, STEM + C Concentrations program, Cum Laude Society, Linda D. Margulis Life Science Award, Black & Gold Scholar Athlete Award, Deans List 
High School Personal Records
  • 55m - 7.15
  • 60m - 7.64 
  • 200m Indoor - 24.64
  • 300m - 40.30
  • 400m Indoor - 57.54
  • 100m - 11.89
  • 200m Outdoor - 24.36
  • 400m Outdoor - 56.76
Personal
  • Daughter of Sonya and David Bessong
  • Dad played professional soccer in Cameroon and Holland
  • Mom is in the Dickinson College Hall of Fame for Basketball, Field Hockey, and Softball
  • Siblings: Ashley and Arnaud
  • Learning German, loves to read and write
  • Chemical Engineering Major