University of South Dakota Athletics

Career Bests

2020-21
Cross Country
Fall cross country season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors as a member of the Coyotes’ third-place distance medley relay at the Summit League Championships with a clocking of 12:06.80 … clocked a season-best time of 2:20.49 for 800 meters at the Division I Challenge … took fourth in the mile at the Dakota Realty Invitational with a season-best 5:10.29 … finished runner-up in the 800 meters at the USD Invitational … tallied nine top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Recorded a season-best 800-meter time of 2:17.45 at the South Dakota Tune-Up … finished runner-up in the 1,500 meters at the USD Twilight in 4:50.74 … ran on USD’s sixth-place 4x800-meter relay at the Drake Relays, clocking 9:11.04 for the fifth-fastest relay time in school history … ran the 1200-meter leg of the Coyotes’ ninth-place distance medley relay at the Drake Relays, recording a time of 12:08.67 for the fifth-best time in USD history … tallied four top-10 finishes during the spring … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

2019-20
Cross Country
Earned all-Summit League second-team honors … placed 11th at the Summit League Championships in 21:51.3 … her time at the Summit meet was a season-best for 6,000 meters … one of seven women to race in all seven meets … scored for the Coyotes in all seven meets as well ... clocked a season-best 5,000-meter time of 18:03.2 at the Augustana Twilight to go with a 12th-place finish at the meet … finished 95th at the Chile Pepper Festival with a time of 18:21.2 for 5,000 meters … took 11th at the NDSU Open with a 4,000-meter clocking of 14:46.5 … placed 29th at Nebraska’s Woody Greeno Invitational … member of the Coyotes’ squad at the NCAA Midwest Regional, finishing 140th in 23:07.7 … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors as a member of the Coyotes’ third-place distance medley relay at the Summit League Championships with a time of 12:08.97 … also finished ninth in the mile in 5:12.20 and 11th in the 5,000 meters in a season best 18:11.33 at the league meet … clocked a personal best mile time of 4:59.53 at the Iowa State Classic … placed third in the 3,000 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet with a personal best time of 10:07.63 … clocked a personal best of 2:17.00 for 800 meters to finish fourth at the Nebraska Tune-Up … finished ninth in the mile at the Adidas Classic in 5:04.18 … tallied seven top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Season cancelled by NCAA and The Summit League due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2018-19
Cross Country
Placed 16th at the Summit League Championships, just outside of all-Summit League contention, with a time of 22:06.06 … helped South Dakota capture its fifth-straight Summit League Championship team title … with a dramatic improvement from her freshman campaign, found herself in the Coyotes’ scoring five at all six meets during the season … clocked a season-best 6,000-meter time of 21:36.0 at the NCAA Midwest Regional to place 52nd … also broke 22 minutes at the Bradley Pink Classic, clocking 21:40.5 … placed 10th at the Augustana Twilight with a 5,000-meter time of 18:08.70 … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

Indoor Track & Field
Competed at five meets indoors … clocked a personal best mile time of 5:12.81 at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet with a fourth-place finish … notched a season-best of 10:17.82 for 3,000 meters at the SDSU Indoor Classic … took eighth in the 3,000 meters at the Nebraska Tune-Up in 10:22.05 … tallied four top-10 finishes during the indoor season.

Outdoor Track & Field
Placed seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Summit League Championships with a personal best time of 11:24.92 … the time ranks 10th for the steeplechase in South Dakota program history … also finished 20th in the 5,000 meters with a season-best time of 18:18.51 at the Summit League Championships … ran a leg of the Coyotes’ sixth-fastest 4xmile relay at the Drake Relays, clocking 20:37.38 … finished runner-up in the 1,500 meters at the USD Twilight with a time of 4:48.47 … took third in the 1,500 meters at the Wildcat Classic … tallied five top-10 finishes outdoors … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

2017-18
Cross Country
Competed in four of six meets for the Coyotes … recorded a season best of 24:05.9 for 37th place at the Woody Greeno Invitational … also clocked 24:48.5 at the Bradley Pink Classic … made the Summit League honor roll.

Indoor Track & Field
Finished fourth in the mile and eighth in the 800 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … clocked 5:16.94 for the mile and a season best of 2:24.48 in the 800 meters at the Dakota Realty meet … posted a season best of 5:15.97 for the mile at the Jack Johnson Classic … took sixth in the 1,000 meters at the Hawkeye Invitational in 3:11.21 … finished 11th in the 3,000 meters at the Nebraska Tune-Up with a time of 10:36.84 … recorded three top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Won the 1,500 meters at the USD Twilight with a time of 4:57.67 … clocked a season best of 4:51.62 in the 1,500 meters at the Kip Janvrin Open, placing eighth … posted a season best of 2:19.55 for 14th place in the 800 meters at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … took fifth in the 1,500 meters at the Red Raider Open in 4:51.74 … tallied three top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll.

Prep
A five-time top-20 finisher at the South Dakota Class AA Cross Country Championships ... posted a fourth-place finish as an eighth grader with a 14:58 clocking for the 4,000-meter course ... also took fourth in the 800 meters at the 2016 South Dakota Class AA Track & Field Championship with a personal best of 2:17, tying the Washington High School record ... earned six letters in track and field, five in cross country, four in basketball and one in soccer at Washington ... also a four-time academic letterwinner and academic all-state honoree.

Personal
Daughter of Don and Tracy Kearney ... finance major.