2021 Women's Track and Field Roster
Biography
SPU: Five-year letterwinner. ... USTFCCCA indoor 1st team All-American on the 4000-meter distance medley relay (2018). USTFCCCA indoor 2nd team All-American in the mile (2019). ... USTFCCCA outdoor 1st team All-American in the 5000 (2019). ... USTFCCCA outdoor 2nd team All-American in 1500 (2018). ... USTFCCCA indoor All-West Region on the DMR (2018) and the mile (2019). ... USTFCCCA outdoor All-West Region in the 1500 (2019) and 3000 steeplechase (2021). ... All-GNAC indoor in the 3000 (2020), DMR (2019, 2020) and mile (2019). ... All-GNAC outdoor in the 1500 (2019), 5000 (2021) and 3000 steeplechase (2021). ...CoSIDA Academic All-America (2020). ... CoSIDA Academic All-District (2020). ... GNAC All-Academic (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). ... USTFCCCA All-Academic (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020).
5th Year (2021): INDOOR – Eligibility complete. OUTDOOR – Capped her career with a pair of solid races at GNAC, placing 2nd in both the 3000-meter steeplechase in a personal-best time of 11 minutes, 12.99 seconds, and in the 5000 meters (18:07.23). ... Ran the steeple for the first time at the Peyton-Shotwell Invitational on April 24 in Tacoma, clocking 11:57.59, good for 2nd place. Just one week later at the Buc Scoring Invite in Spokane, cut 20 seconds off that time, finishing 3rd in 11:37.53.
Senior (2020): INDOOR – Ran in four meets. … Won the GNAC 3000 meters, her first conference crown in any of the three running seasons, posting a personal-best and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 9 minutes, 47.88 seconds, outsprinting teammate Dania Holmberg to the finish line by seven hundredths of a second. … Also placed 4th in the mile in 5:05.91, and ran the 1200-meter leadoff leg on the 2nd-place distance medley relay. … Posted an NCAA provisional time of 17:23.92 in the 5000 meters at the season-opening UW Indoor Preview. OUTDOOR – Ran in the 800 meters at the season-opening Ed Boitano / Puget Sound Invitational, placing 2nd in 2:22.91. … Rest of the season canceled because of the Coronavirus.
Junior (2019): INDOOR – Placed 12th in the mile at the NCAA Championships, clocking 4:54.79. ... Put herself in prime position to make nationals with a personal-best 4:52.21 at the SPU Final Qualifier on Feb. 23. That was nearly four seconds faster than the 4:56.96 she ran for 2nd place at the GNAC Championships just one week earlier, and took her from 29th on the national qualifying list all the way up to 15th. ... Placed 4th in the 3000 at GNAC (10:11.12) and also ran the 1200-meter leadoff leg on the 2nd-place 4000 distance medley relay that finished in an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 12:01.45. ... Clocked a PR 10:02.40 in the 3000 at the season-opening UW Indoor Preview. ... Scored a pair of wins at the Cougar Indoor in Pullman, winning the mile (5:09.89) and the 3000 (10:21.93). OUTDOOR – Placed an All-American 5th in the 5000 meters at the NCAA Division II Championships, clocking 17:23.33. Also ran the 1500 at nationals, placing 15th (4:39.51). ... Ran to 2nd place in the 1500 at the GNAC Championships with a personal-best time of 4:27.13. Also was 4th in the 5000 at GNAC (17:14.21). ... After five times of 4:30 and a fraction for the 1500 beginning in the 2018 season – including an NCAA provisional-qualifying 4:30.09 at the 2019 Bryan Clay Invitational – finally broke that barrier with a 4:28.99 at the regular-season finale Ken Shannon Invitational on May 4, then went even faster with her 4:27 at GNAC the following weekend. ... Ran the mile at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic, hitting the finish line in 4 minutes, 54.46 seconds. That converted to a 4:32.65 for 1500 meters, beating the NCAA provisional standard. ... Set a 5000-meter PR of 16:51.60 at the Bryan Clay Invitational to get onto the NCAA provisional list.
Sophomore (2018): INDOOR – Ran the 1200-meter leadoff leg on the distance medley relay at the NCAA D2 Championships, followed by Lani Taylor, Chynna Phan, and Mary Charleson for an All-American 5th-place finish in 11:31.69. Also ran the leadoff leg at the SPU Final Qualifer on Feb. 24 when that same foursome ran 11:39.11, going from on the bubble to effectively clinching a spot at nationals. ... Placed 6th in the mile at GNAC in 5:05.18, and 12th in the 3000 in 10:33.03. ... Ran the mile in each of her four meets. OUTDOOR – Placed 10th in the 1500 at NCAA nationals, coming across the line in 4:30.49. Ran a PR of 4:30.11 in the preliminaries, coming from the No. 23 seed (among 24 entries) to out-lean Darroneshia Lott of Coker (S.C.) by nine-hundredths of a second at the wire to grab a wild-card spot into the finals as the No. 11 seed. Then, she moved up one more place in the finals. ... Got onto the NCAA provisional list in the 1500 with a 4:33.34 on April 6 at the Western Washington Team Invitational in Bellingham, then got consistently faster the rest of the season: 4:30.30 at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, Calf., on April 20 to 4:30.29 at GNAC (5th place) to 4:30.11 in the NCAA prelims. ... Focused primarily on the 1500. Ran the 800 twice, setting a PR of 2:14.03 at the UBC Open in Vancouver, B.C., on March 30.
Freshman (2017): INDOOR – Scored with a 6th-place finish in the mile at GNAC, clocking 5:11.58. Also ran the 800 at GNAC, taking 9th in a PR time of 2:15.40. ... Broke the five-minute mark and beat the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in the mile on Feb. 25 at the SPU Final Qualifer meet, going the distance in 4:56.96. That was nearly 11 seconds better than her previous PR of 5:07.82, set on Jan. 28 at the UW Invitational. OUTDOOR – Placed 10th in 1500 at GNAC in 4:47.64. ... Ran that distance in six meets, with a PR of 4:34.60 on April 28 at the Oregon State High Performance meet in Corvallis. ... Also ran the 800 in three meets, with a best of 2:15.20 at the Doris Heritage Distance Festival on March 25 in West Seattle. ... In that same Heritage meet, led off the winning 4x400 relay, followed by Olivia Gabriel, Hannah Calvert, and Kyra Brannan.
Hazen High School: Went to the Washington Class 3A (medium-large school) state meet in the 800 as a sophomore (15th in 2:24.96), junior (11th in 2:20.65) and senior (6th in 2:16.74). ... Also was 6th in the state 1600 as a senior with her first-ever sub-5 (4:57.76). ... Ran the second leg on the 3rd-place state 4x400 relay as a senior. ... Set an 800-meter PR of 2:14.83 as a senior in 2016. ... On the cross country course, ran twice at the 3A state meet. After placing 120th as a junior in 21:26.28, made a huge climb as a senior in 2015, moving all the way up to 44th and dropping more than a 90 seconds off of her time, finishing the 5 kilometers in 19:50.3. ... Took 3rd in both the Seamount League and West Central District meet as a senior. ...
Personal: Kate Nicole Lilly. ... Mathematics major.
Fun facts: Has run on and off since 2nd grade, then consistently since 8th grade. ... Prior to that, also did soccer, basketball, and skateboarding. ... Favorite sport to watch is soccer. ... Dumbest movie she has ever seen is "The Babadook." ... Book she just couldn't put down was "Calvin & Hobbes." ... Favorite junk food is a chocolate milkshake. ... Favorite healthy food is dried mangos. ... Favorite TV program is "Doc Martin." ... Favorite sports team is the Seattle Sounders. ... Favorite athlete is runner Allie Ostrander. ... Easiest subject in school is math. ... Toughest subject is history. ... If she could be any action hero, would be Louie CK "because I'm a middle-aged comedian on the inside." ... Her friends call her Katilda. ... While in middle school, she wore hats every day, "even to basketball practice."
INDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
800: 2:15.40 (2/17/2017)
Mile: 4:52.21 (2/23/2019)
3000: 9:47.88 (2/22/2020)
5000: 17:23.92 (1/31/2020)
OUTDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
400: 1:01.93 (3/30/2018)
800: 2:14.03 (3/30.2018)
1500: 4:27.13 (5/11/2019)
Mile: 4:54.46 (3/30/2019)
5000: 16:51.60 (4/18/2019)
3000 steeple: 11:12.99 (5/14/2021)
CAREER RESULTS
