Millersville

The most decorated and accomplished runner to step on the Millersville University track, Priscilla Jennings Landis earned election into the hall of fame in her first year of eligibility. The 2009 graduate is the only athlete in Millersville history to be an All-American in cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field. She earned All-America honors a total of five times and won an incredible 10 PSAC Championship events during the course of her four-year career. She was All-PSAC in 16 events, set 10 school records in track and field, including the PSAC indoor record in the 800 meters and the PSAC Outdoor Championship record in the 800 meters. While Landis was considered a mid-distance specialist, she still finished in the top four at the PSAC Championships three times including a runner-up finish in 2009. She finished in the top three of the cross country NCAA Atlantic Regional twice and took runner-up status in 2009 before capturing eighth place at the NCAA Championship.
 
Landis arrived at Millersville in 2005-06 and scored at the PSAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships in four events, setting the stage for a remarkable career. In 2007, Jennings took first place in the indoor 800 and then swept the 800 and 1,500-meter runs at the outdoor championships. She qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships for the first time that season and took ninth in the 1,500. Her breakout season was in 2008, though. After suffering an injuring and missing nearly the entire cross country season, Jennings rebounded with memorable indoor and outdoor seasons. At the indoor championships, Landis took first in the mile and runner-up in the 800 while helping the distance medley relay team to a first-place finish. She went on to place fifth in the mile at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The outdoor season was even more remarkable. She dominated the event, taking first place in the 800, 1,500 and 3,000-meter run. She was named PSAC Track Athlete of the Meet and the Most Outstanding Athlete of the Meet. Her time of 2:10.22 in the 800 set a PSAC Championship record. And while she didn’t run the event at the PSAC Championships, Landis took fifth in 5,000-meter run the NCAA Championships for All-America status.
 
The momentum gathered from stellar track seasons carried into her 2008 cross country season were she was PSAC Runner of the Week three times, placed fifth at the NCAA Championships and third at the Atlantic Regional to become the program’s first national qualifier since 1999. Her final track season was again, one for the record books. At the PSAC Indoor Championships, Landis finished runner-up in both the 800 and the mile, but she would have her triumph in the outdoor season. Running in front of her home crowd at Biemesderfer Stadium, Landis ran away with the 800 meter title and then clipped eventual, multiple-time NCAA Champion Neely Spence of Shippensburg in a photo finish in the 1,500. Landis closed her Millersville track career with a sixth-place finish in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA Championships.
 
With a medical redshirt received in the fall of 2007, Landis had one season of cross country remaining. She delivered a runner-up finish at both the PSAC and Atlantic Regional championships and captured her fifth career All-America honor by placing eighth at the NCAA Championships.
 
Landis, who earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, was also a four-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete, two-time member of the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team in track and was an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Third Team honoree in the spring of 2009.

On Oct. 10, 2010, Landis married her longtime boyfriend Brent Landis. The two attended Solanco High School and ran track together. Three years later, the couple added a girl, Bailey, to the family.