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2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster

Elaina Panagakos

  • Event Throws
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Scarborough, Maine
  • Highschool Scarborough

Biography

2024-2025 (Senior - Maine)
Outdoor
  • PR in both the shot put (12.96m) and the hammer throw (45.82m) to finish sixth and 13th at the America East Championships
  • Grabbed fifth in both the hammer throw (41.62m) and shot put (12.02m) at the UNH Jim Boulanger Invite
2023-2024 (Junior - Maine)
Outdoor
  • Finished ninth at the America East Championships in the shot put (12.34m)
  • Grabbed second in the hammer throw (45.13m) and third in the shot put (11.85m) at the UNH Jim Boulanger Invite
Indoor
  • Placed third in the shot put (12.26m) at the Gordon Kelly Invite
  • Finished third in the shot put (12.09m) and set a PR in the weight throw (13.98m) to finish fourth at the UMaine Meet #1
2022-2023 (Sophomore - Maine)
Indoor
  • Placed second in the shot put (12.39m) and fifth in the weight throw (12.93m) at the UMaine Open Invitational
  • Finished fifth in the shot put (11.69m) at the Bates Invitational and Multi
2021-2022 (Freshman - Maine)
Outdoor
  • Placed eighth in the shot put (12.11m) at the America East Outdoor Championships
  • Posted a PR in the discus throw (28.09m) at the UMass Outdoor Invitational
  • Finished third in the shot put (11.74m) at the UNH Outdoor Season Opener 
Indoor
  • Finished third in the shot put (11.81m) at the Bates Invitational and Multi
  • Made her collegiate debut in the Shot Put (11.19m) at the Maine & New Hampshire Dual Meet 
High School
  • 4x varsity letter winner in Track & Field (2017-2021)
  • First Team All-State and Shot Put State Champ (2021)
  • School Record Holder in the Shot Put
  • 4x varsity letter winner in soccer (2017-2021)
  • Soccer Regional Champ (2019, 2020)
  • Basketball Conference Champ (2018) and Basketball Regional Champ (2019)
Personal
  • Daughter of Gina and Peter Panagakos
  • Sister Gabriella, played soccer at Maine
  • First time not living in Maine
  • Grad. Student: Masters in Business Administration