Adelyn Fairley

Class:
Redshirt Senior
Position:
Distance
Height:
5-7
Hometown:
Mears, Mich.
Prev School:
Hart High School

TFRRS Profile (Track)
TFRRS Profile (XC)

CUSA Individual Titles (4)
2024 Indoor 5K
2025 Indoor 3K
2025 Indoor 5K
2025 Outdoor 10K

All-CUSA Honors (8)
2023 Cross Country – 2nd
2024 Indoor 3K - 3rd
2024 Indoor 5K - 1st
2024 Cross Country - 2nd
2025 Indoor 3K - 1st
2025 Indoor 5K - 1st
2025 Outdoor 5K - 2nd
2025 Outdoor 10K - 1st

ASUN Individual Titles (6)
2019 Cross Country
2021 Indoor 5K
Spring 2021 Cross Country
2021 Outdoor 5K
2022 Indoor 5K
2023 Outdoor 10K

All-ASUN Honors (10)
2019 Cross Country – 1st
2021 Indoor 5K – 1st
Spring 2021 Cross Country – 1st
2021 Outdoor 5K – 1st
Fall 2021 Cross Country – 3rd
2022 Indoor 3K – 2nd
2022 Indoor 5K – 1st
2022 Outdoor 1,500 – 3rd
2023 Outdoor 5K – 3rd
2023 Outdoor 10K – 1st

2024 Outdoor Track & Field (Sr.)

Did not compete in any races for Liberty and was redshirted
Racing unattached, her times included 4:29.79 (The Hill City Twilight 1,500), 16:14.53 (Virginia Challenge 5K) and 33:43.36 (Raleigh Relays 10K)
CUSA Commissioner’s Honor Roll member

2023-24 Indoor Track & Field (R-Jr.)

CUSA 5K champion in a thrilling race where the top four runners were separated by 0.6 seconds. She also earned a spot on the podium with a third-place 3K finish.
Indoor personal-best 5K time of 16:17.62 at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener ranks No. 3 in program history
Virginia Tech Invitational 3K champion
Fastest times of the year in the mile (4:50.83) and 3K (9:27.64) both came during the Penn State National Open

2023 Cross Country (R-Jr.)

Served as the Lady Flames’ No. 1 runner during all five of her races, capped off by a 22nd-place showing for all-region honors at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship
Earned first team All-CUSA distinction with a runner-up finish at the conference meet
Liberty’s first CUSA Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week on Sept. 26 following a personal-best 16:59.3 5K effort which netted 34th place at the Virginia Invitational
Fastest 6K time of the year (20:17.7) also came at Virginia, during the XC23 Pre-Nationals blue race
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team member
CUSA All-Academic Team member

2023 Outdoor Track & Field (Jr.)

Ran the 10K at the NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round meet for the second year in row
ASUN 10K champion and placed third in the 5K
Fastest 5K (16:30.19 at the Stanford Invitational) and 10K (34:02.76 at the Bryan Clay Invitational) of the season both happened in California
VaSID First Team All-State (distance)
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
ASUN Academic Honor Roll member

2022-23 Indoor Track & Field (R-So.)

Her only meet representing Liberty was the ASUN Championship, where she took fourth in the 5K and 20th in the 3K.

2022 Cross Country (R-Jr.)

Did not compete in any races for Liberty and was redshirted

2022 Outdoor Track & Field (So.)

Finished 14th in the 10K at the NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round meet, just missing a trip to Eugene by two spots
ASUN third-place finisher in the 1,500
Made a successful 10K debut at the Virginia Challenge, winning the race in a program-record 33:49.00
Clocked 15:54.98 for her lone 5K of the season, at the Stanford Invitational. That broke her own ASUN all-time record and made her Liberty’s second sub-16:00 runner in program history.
Moved into Liberty’s all-time top five with her 4:23.78 1,500 at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier
Two-time ASUN Women’s Track Athlete of the Week (April 27 and May 11)
VaSID First Team All-State (distance)
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
ASUN Academic Honor Roll member

2021-22 Indoor Track & Field (R-Fr.)

Repeated as ASUN 5K champion, placed second in the 3K and took fifth in the mile
ASUN Women’s Track Athlete of the Week on Feb. 9 after clocking a Liberty and ASUN all-time record 9:24.96 3K at the Camel City Elite meet
Lowered her mile personal best to 4:49.18 at the Bob Pollock Invitational, becoming the third Lady Flame ever to run under 4:50
VaSID First Team All-State (distance)

Fall 2021 Cross Country (R-So.)

Earned all-region honors thanks to her 14th-place showing at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship
Garnered her third straight first team All-ASUN award with a third-place finish at the ASUN Championship. Her time of 17:00.4 set a new 5K personal best and ranks No. 2 in program history and No. 6 in meet history.
Served as Liberty’s No. 1 runner at her first three races of the season, winning the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational and placing sixth at both the Roy Griak Invitational and FSU XC Invite/Pre-Nationals
Her 6K clocking of 20:04.9 at the FSU XC Invite/Pre-Nationals stood as the program record for a little over a month.
Two-time ASUN Runner of the Week (Sept. 14 & Sept. 28)
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
ASUN All-Academic Team

2021 Outdoor Track & Field (Fr.)

Placed 17th in the 5K in her NCAA Division I East Preliminary Round debut
ASUN 5K champion
Her 16:10.19 5K clocking at the Virginia Challenge took down the ASUN all-time record that had stood since 2004 and also set a Liberty freshman record
ASUN Women’s Freshman of the Week on April 21
VaSID First Team All-State honoree (distance)
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
ASUN Academic Honor Roll member

2021 Indoor Track & Field (R-Fr.)

ASUN 5K champion in a meet and Liberty freshman-record time of 16:25.24
ASUN Women’s Freshman of the Week on Feb. 17 after placing second to Coach Rachel Johnson in the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational 5K in 16:30.47
VaSID State Women’s Track Rookie of the Year and First Team All-State (distance)

Spring 2021 Cross Country (So.)

Finished a team-best 66th at the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
Successfully defended her ASUN individual title, leading the Lady Flames to their first ASUN team championship
Placed 23rd at her first race of the season, the FSU Winter XC Classic
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

2020 Outdoor Track & Field

Season was cancelled due to health concerns related to the COVID-19 virus

2020 Indoor Track & Field (Fr.)

Did not compete in any races and was redshirted
ASUN Academic Honor Roll member

2019 Cross Country (Fr.)

Won the ASUN women’s individual title with a 5K program-record time of 17:08.65, becoming the Lady Flames’ first NCAA Division I women’s cross country individual conference champion and the first freshman woman to claim the ASUN title since 1996
Was the top freshman finisher at the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational (seventh place) and the No. 2 freshman in the Pre-National Invitational blue race (15th place)
6K time of 20:33.3 at the Pre-National Invitational ranks No. 3 in program history
Won the first two races of her collegiate career, the Liberty Challenge 4K and FGCU Invitational 5K, by a total of 2:05
Swept the ASUN Women’s Runner of the Week and Women’s Freshman of the Week honors four times (Sept. 4, Sept. 11, Oct. 2, Oct. 23). She became the first athlete to win four ASUN Women’s Runner of the Week awards in a single season since 2009.

Prep

Graduated from Hart High School
Qualified for the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships twice, placing 10th nationally in 2017 and 16th in 2018
Placed fourth in the two-mile at the 2019 New Balance Outdoor Nationals
Captured three straight individual titles (2016, 2017 and 2018) at the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 3 Cross Country Championships, leading Hart to back-to-back team championships (2017 and 2018)
Hart also won the 2018 MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 3 Track & Field Championships title, aided by Ackley’s first-place finishes in the 3,200 and 4 x 800 relay
Top times included 2:14.37 (800), 4:49.42 (1,600), 10:13.37 (3,200) and 16:54 (cross country 5K)
Graduated second in her class of 500+ students

Personal

Wife of 2018 NCAA Division III men's steeplechase national champion Mark Fairley
Daughter of Calvin and Amy Ackley
Parents both ran cross country at Cornerstone
Sister Alayna ran cross country at Cedarville, where sister Savannah is currently running
Brother Clayton runs cross country at Colorado Christian
Birthday is Feb. 5
Graduated in May 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in zoo & wildlife biology
Pursuing a master's degree in visual communication design