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2020 Women's Cross Country Roster

Kathryn Gearhart

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Highschool Easton HS
  • Hometown Easton, Md.

Biography

Personal Bests:

1500m (O) 4:43.02 Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/3/19)
3000m (I) 9:58.62 SPIRE NCAA D1 Indoor Track Meet (2/10-11/17)
3000m (O) 9:57.57 Virginia v. Maryland, Pitt, West Virginia (4/6/19)
5000m (I) 17:11.24 Big Ten Indoor Championships (2/24-25/17)
5000m (O) 16:52.60 Penn Relays (4/25-27/19)
10,000m (O) 35:07.77 Big Ten Outdoor Championships (5/10-12/19)
5K (XC) 17:33.1 UVA Cavalier 5K Challenge (9/14/19)
6K (XC) 21:02.2 Paul Short Invite (10/5/19)

2020 Indoor (Senior): Opened season in the 3000m (10:01.36) at the Terrapin Invitational (1/18)...finished ninth in the 3000m (10:07.17) at the Rod McCravy Memorial (1/24)...finished in the top-10 in the 3000m (10:07.17) at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet (1/25)...took home first place in the 5000m (17:34.45) at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite (2/8)...finished ninth in the 3000m (10:09.70) at the Darius Dixon Memorial meet (2/15)...ran the 5000m (17:36.51) at the Big Ten Indoor Championships (2/29)

2019 Cross Country (Senior): Opened the Cross Country season with a first place finish (18:02.04) at the Mt. Saint Mary’s 5K run (8/30)...finished 7th (17:33.1) at the UVA 5K (9/14)...finished 70th(21:02.2) at the 6K Leigh High Paul Short meet (10/5)...placed 25th (21:23.7) at the Penn State National Open (10/18)...finished 68th (21:46.0) at the 2019 B1G Championship (11/3)

2019 Outdoor (Junior): Academic All-Big Ten... placed 2nd in the 5000m (17:14.11) at the North Florida Spring Break Invitational (3/21-22)...finished 6th with her personal best in the 500m (4:46.02)...placed 3rd in the 3000m (9:57.57) at the UVA Quad Meet...finished 17th with her personal best in the 5000m (16:52.60) at the Penn Relays (4/25-27)... placed ninth in the 1500m (4:43.02) at the Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/3/19)... finished 21st in the 10,000m (35:07.77) at the Big Ten Championships (5/10/19)

2019 Indoor (Junior): Placed 17th in the 3000 with a time of 10:13.47 at the Simmons-Harvey Big Ten Invitational (1/19)...placed 2nd in the 5000 with a time of 17:32.44 in the Penn State National (1/25-1/26)...placed 1st in the 3000 with a time of 10:09.94 in the 2019 Liberty Flames Invite (2/2)...placed 15th in the 5000 with a time of 17:35.45 in the Music City Challenge (2/8-2/9)... finished 31st in the 5000m (17:44.31) at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships (2/22-23).

2018 Cross Country (Junior): Opened the cross country season with a 48th place finish (21:41.9) at the Paul Short Gold (9/29/18)... finished 29th (22:17.4) at the Princeton Cross Country Invitational (10/12/18)... finished 78th (22:13.2) at the Big Ten Championships (10/28/18)... finished 73rd (22:43.5) at the NCAA Regional Cross Country Championships (11/9/18)

2018 Outdoor (Sophomore): Placed 3rd in the 5000m (17:45.94) at the Maryland Invitational (3/17)…placed 3rd in the Navy Men’s Invitational (3/31) in the 5000m (17:51.27).

2017 Outdoor (Freshman): Won the 5000m (17:27.94) at the UNF Spring Break Invitational (3/24)…finished in 9th place in the 3000m (10:03.60) during the Colonial Relays (3/30-4/1)…had a top 20 finish in the 5000m (17:21.66) at the Larry Ellis Invitational (4/21-22)…took 2nd place in the 5000m (17:35.19) during the Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/5)…finished in 22nd place in the 10000m (35:52.37) during the Big Ten Championships (5/12-14).

2017 Indoor (Freshman): Competed at five events…finished 13th in the 3000m (10:10.81) at the Nittany Lion Challenge (1/14)…took 6th place in the 5000m (17:29.15) during the Terrapin Invitational (1/21)…placed 4th in the 5000m (17:19.21) at the Armory Track Invitational (2/3-4)…had a top 20 finish in the 3000m (9:58.62) during the SPIRE NCAA D1 Indoor Track Meet (2/10-11)…finished 24th in the 5000m (17:11.34) during the Big Ten Championships (2/24-25).

2016 Cross Country (Freshman): Put together solid freshman campaign, where she was a top-three runner for the Terps in all six meets…won first collegiate meet at the Mount St. Mary’s 5K Duals, leading the pack with a mark of 18:01.50 (9/2)…was the No. 1 runner for the Terps at the Salty Dog Invite, finishing third overall with a time of 23:06.76 (9/10)…was Maryland’s No. 1 runner at Paul Short Invite, clocking in at 21:10.00 to take 78th overall (10/1)…took 11th overall as Maryland’s No. 2 runner at Princeton Invitational (10/15)…finished 67th as Maryland’s No. 2 runner at Big Ten Championship in 22:51.50 (10/30)…58th overall and UMD’s No. 3 runner at NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals (11/11).  

Before Maryland: Lettered in cross country and track at Easton High School...also played lacrosse.

Personal: Daughter of Brian and Shelly Gearhart...has three brothers, Graham, Ben and Jack...majoring in letters and sciences. 

Historical Player Information

  • 2016Freshman

  • 2017Sophomore

  • 2018Junior

  • 2018Junior

  • 2018Junior

  • 2019Senior

  • 2020Graduate Student