Butler University Athletics

2020 Indoor All-Big East (5000m)
2020 Indoor Track Athlete of the Week (1/15/2020, 2/5/2020)
2019 USTFCCCA Cross Country All-Region
2019 All-Big East Cross Country First Team

Collegiate Results:
https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/7383989/Butler/Emily_Royston.html

Collegiate Bests (through the 2022 Outdoor Season):
3000m - 9:32.21, 2020 Iowa State Classic (Indoor)
5000m - 16:13.76, 2020 Big East Indoor Championships
10,000m - 35:39.69, 2022 Raleigh Relays (Outdoor)
5K (XC) - 17:01.2, 2019 Joe Piane Invitational
6K (XC) - 20:34.7, 2019 Pre-National Invitational

2021-22 Track: 7th place finish in the 3000m at the Jim Green Invitational (1/15)...10th place in the 5000m at the Big East Indoor Championships (2/25)...7th place in the 5000m at the Bryan Clay Invitational (4/14)...8th place in the 10,000m at the Big East Outdoor Championships (5/13)

2019 Cross Country: Had a stand-out Butler debut season, qualifying for the 2019 NCAA Cross Country Championships... Finished 134th at the National Championship with a time of 21:29.1... Placed 17th at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional with a time of 20:50.4, earning an automatic individual bid... Led the Bulldogs to the program's first BIG EAST title with a fifth place finish (22:00.9)... Finished 18th overall at the NCAA Pre-National meet with a time of 20.34.7, helping the Bulldogs to an eighth-place team finish.. Was 45th overall at the Joe Piane (Notre Dame) Invite witha time of 17:01.2... Won her first race in a Butler Uniform at the Butler Twilight with a time of 17:19.6, just a few seconds off the meet record.

Transferred to Butler prior to the 2019-20 academic year after two seasons in the Milwaukee program. 

• 2019 NCAA West Regional Qualifier (10,000m)
• 2019 Horizon League 10,000m Champion
• 2018 Second-Team All-Horizon League (Cross Country)

2018-19 Season at Milwaukee

2019 Outdoor: Capped her remarkable sophomore season with a pair of records during the outdoor season ... earned her first trip to the NCAA West Regionals, moving way up from her 45th-place seeding and finishing 32nd overall with a time of 35:00.71 despite navigating through an early pile up ... was crowned Horizon League Champion in the 10k with a new league-record time of 34:58.67 to lead a big showing for the Black & Gold in the event ... also brought home the bronze medal in the 5k at the league meet with a PR time of 17:02.77, now ranking her sixth in MKE history ... started her outdoor season with a massive time drop in the 5000m, winning the event at the Washington University Distance Carnival Mar. 29 in 17:12.63 ... was named Horizon League Runner of the Week April 16 after shattering the Milwaukee school record in the 10,000m her first time ever running the event, crossing the finish line in 34:30.13 to take first at the Bison Outdoor Classic at Bucknell, taking down former All-American Angie Molter's previous record by 26 seconds.

2019 Indoor: Continued her impressive sophomore campaign by taking fourth in both the 3000m and 5000m at the Horizon League Championships ... had a PR time of 10:08.60 in the 3k at the league meet ... started her season winning the 3k in 10:09.95 at the Tierney Classic Jan. 19 ... was a part of a big day for Milwaukee's distance crew Feb. 8 at the GVSU Big Meet, taking 17th overall in 17:05.75 - a two-minute time drop that now ranks her fourth in program history.

2018 Cross Country: Had a breakthrough sophomore season, scoring in each of the final four meets on the year ... helped Milwaukee win its first Horizon League Championship in program history ... earned second-team all-league honors with an eighth-place finish at the conference championships with a career-best time of 22:02.3 ... started the season taking third overall in 20:29.7 at Green Bay Sept. 1 ... dropped that 5k time down to 18:39.1 to earn a scoring spot at the Loyola Lakefront Invite Sept. 29 ... finished runner-up for MKE two weeks later with a 6k time of 22:02.8 at the Bradley Pink Classic ... finished her season scoring second for Milwaukee and came in 90th overall in 22:20.8 at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Nov. 9.

2017-18 Season at Milwaukee

2018 Outdoor: Competed at two meets as a freshman ... started things off in the 5000m with a time of 19:25.16 at the Big Blue Classic Mar. 31 ... finished 21st in the same event at the Don Church Twilight April 21.

2018 Indoor: Competed in three meets in her first indoor season ... made her collegiate track debut Jan. 20 at the home Tierney Classic, taking 17th in the 3000m in 11:14.83 ... two weeks later, notched her first collegiate win by posting the top time in the 5000m at the Parkside Classic Feb. 3 ... finished the 3k in 11:25.12 at the GVSU Big Meet Feb. 10.

2017 Cross Country: Came in 86th overall as a freshman at the Horizon League Championships ... made her collegiate debut Sept. 2 at the UIC Opener, taking 87th overall in 17:16.43 ... two weeks later, helped Milwaukee to a third-place showing as a team at the Bradley Intercollegiate, taking 83rd in 20:28.9 ... came in 90th overall in her first 6K of the season, crossing the line in 25:25.31 at Indiana's Sam Bell Invite Sept. 30 ... lowered that time to 24:37.8 two weeks later at the Bradley Classic.

HIGH SCHOOL: Helped run the streak of consecutive cross country titles in the Badger Conference to six for Waunakee Community High School ... named first-team all conference all four years in cross country ... qualified for the state meet as both a freshman and a senior ... made school history by helping her team win sectionals her senior year ... in track, crowned conference champion in both the 1600m and 3200m as a senior ... helped the Warriors to a team conference title the same year ... named first-team academic all state senior year for cross country.

PERSONAL: Daughter of Rob and Stacey