Education
Columbia University.
Columbia University.
She competes in the women"s 3000 meters steeplechase. She is a 2001 graduate of Queen of Peace High School in Burbank, Illinois and a 2005 graduate of Columbia University, where she majored in sociology. In May 2011, Delilah received her master"s degree in Sports Management, also from Columbia University.
She now competes for the New York Athletic Club and trains with the New Jersey-New York Track Club under the guidance of Coach Frank Gagliano.
As of 2013 she is sponsored by Puma and continues to compete on a world wide level She competed at the 2008 United States. Olympic trials where she made the finals, but did not qualify for the Olympic team
She fared better in cross country running the following year: at the United States of America Cross Country Championships she finished in fourth place, and qualified to compete at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finishing in 33rd (which was the second-best performance by a North American athlete after Julie Culley). DiCrescenzo qualified for the 2011 IAAF World Track and Field Championships in the 3000m steeple chase by finishing third at the United States Championships in a time of 9:46.31.
However, she did not compete due to injury.
DiCrescenzo failed to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, finishing 13th at United States of America 10 km Championships (33:36) and 7th in steeplechase at Olympic Trials (9:4630). On February 2, 2013, she again qualified for the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championship with a 6th place finish in a time of 26:57.2 at the United States of America Cross Country Championships in Forest Park in Saint Louis, Missouri. At the world championships, she finished 47th.
She is the subject of the Plain White T"s song, which reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Higgenson was inspired to write the song after meeting her.
She finished 3rd in the steeple chase at the 2006 United States Nationals, and won the 6K title at the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships in the fall of 2007. She headed Team United States of America to the gold with a win at the Americas Cross Country Championships – she won the NACAC-endorsed competition over a 6 km course at the Mountain. Irvine Resort in Tobago, beating several other Americans who had previously beaten her in qualifying at the United States of America Cross Country National Championships. Though the two were never in a relationship, Delilah did attend the 2008 Grammy Award show as the guest of Higgenson, where her namesake song was nominated for 2008 Song of the Year (won by Amy Winehouse).
