(Editor's note: The Day will be publishing a profile of a spring athlete for each day of the canceled high school athletic season.)

School: Norwich Free Academy

Class: Senior

Sport: Girls' track & field

Events: 200 meters, 400, 4x400 relay

College choice: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.

Chosen major: Biomedical engineering

Favorite sport besides track: I love to watch baseball (my favorite team is the Yankees).

Athlete you grew up admiring: Throughout high school, I have looked up to (hurdler) Sydney McLaughlin, who has been an inspiration for being a great athlete as she attended the 2016 Olympics as a high schooler and has already gone pro at the age of 20 years old.

Checking in with Emma Grace: "I was mostly looking forward to one last season with my coaches and friends. I had been putting in a lot of work after indoor track ended and I felt like I was the most prepared for a season as I have ever been."

What you need to know about Emma Grace: Ricketts competes at NFA in cross country, as well as indoor and outdoor track. She calls indoor track her favorite, partly due to the camaraderie with her coaches and teammates during the indoor season, which is run as a co-ed program. Ricketts was the Eastern Connecticut Conference 600 champion indoors as a junior, which she recalls as the best moment of her track career. "I had been dealing with medical issues and injuries," said Ricketts, who won in a personal best 1 minute, 41:87 seconds. "... That win showed me my hard work after all the setbacks I had paid off and that I could accomplish anything if I put my mind to it." A CIAC scholar-athlete recipient, Ricketts will continue to run at RPI. She chose the biomedical engineering major because she has always been interested in math and science. Specifically, after she graduates, she would like to work designing prosthetic devices. Ricketts began competing in Irish step dancing when she was in first grade and danced for 11 years, qualifying for the world championship five times and dancing in Scotland, London and Ireland. Ricketts and her brothers Simon and Jacob are triplets, making five children in her family along with an older brother and a younger sister. She enjoys watching Criminal Minds. Said Ricketts: "I would like to say to my teammates that I have loved running with all of you and running would not have been the same without all of you. To my coaches, you have been amazing and worked with me throughout all of my injuries and health problems; you went above and beyond for me and I am extremely grateful."