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2024-25 Track & Field Roster

Kirstin Nichols

  • Height 5-1
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Position Distance
  • Major MPH, Behavioral and Community Health
  • Hometown Crofton, MD
  • High School Arundel
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Biography

As a senior (2023-24)
Outdoor
  • Participated in four competitions, earning two top-10 finishes, while placing second in one event 
  • Posted a personal best and placed second in the 5000-meter (17:33.68) at the 2024 George Mason Ebanks Invitational (4/5-4/6/24)
  • Recorded a personal best at the Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/3/24) in the 1500-meter (4:46.82)
Indoor
  • Participated in three competitions, earning one top-2 finish 
  • Recorded a personal best and placed second at Navy Select (2/16/24) in the 3000-meter (10:12.24)
Cross Country 
  • Participated in three competitions throughout the season
  • Posted a season best in the 6k (26.25.7) at the 2023 Navy Cross Country Invitational (9/9/23)
As a junior (2022-23)
Outdoor
  • Participated in three outdoor competitions, earning one top-five finish
  • Opened the season with a runner-up placement in the 5000m (18:13.26) at the Navy Outdoor Invitational (3/25)
  • Set a personal-best 17:57.87 in the 5000m at the Bison Outdoor Classic (4/14)
  • Notched a personal record in the 1500m at the Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/5), finishing in 4:52.97
Indoor
  • Competed in five indoor meets, yielding three top-10 finishes
  • Opened the season with a career-best mile time of 5:21.93 to take seventh at the Navy Invitational (12/3)
  • Finished eighth in the 3000m (10:38.91) at the Patriot Games (1/27)
  • Placed seventh in the 3000m (10:35.09) at the Doc Hale VT Meet (2/3)
  • Earned a personal-best time in the 3000m with a 10:25.48 performance at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational (2/10)
Cross Country
  • Opened the season with a season-best 19:52.2 finish in the 5k at the Baltimore Metro Meet (9/1)
  • Competed in the Navy Cross Country Invitational, finishing with a time of 23:58.2 in the 6k (9/16)
  • Set a personal best time of 23:04.3 in the 6K at the Lehigh Paul Short Run (9/30)
  • Raced to a 23:42.6 finish in the 6k at the Penn State National Open (10/14)
As a sophomore (2021-22)
Outdoor
  • Did not compete
Indoor
  • Opened her season at the Nittany Lion Challenge, racing to a 10:39.03 finish in the 3000m
  • Set a personal best in the 3000m at the Dr. Sanders Invite (10:28.61)
Cross Country
  • Opened her season racing to a 21:21.6 finish in the 5k at Mount St. Mary's (9/3)
  • Set a personal best of 23:37.5 in the 6k at the Lehigh Paul Short Run (10/1)
  • Competed in the 6k at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships (10/29)
As a freshman (2020-21)
Outdoor
  • Did not compete
Indoor
  • Competed in the 3000m (11:22.05) at the Nittany Lion Opener (1/16)
Before Maryland
  • Named to Capital Gazette First Team All-County Cross Country in 2017 and for Indoor Track & Field in 2020
  • Anne Arundel County and Maryland 4A East Region 3200m Champion for Indoor Track & Field 2020
  • Multi-year Arundel High School team captain
  • Set PRs in the 800m (2:23), 1600m (5:06), and 3200m (11:28.88)
  • Served as President of National Honor Society
  • Was a member of the English National Honor Society and Rho Kappa National Social Studies Honor Society
Personal
  • Daughter of Jonathan Nichols who competed as a member of the University of Delaware's soccer and track teams
  • Aunt Christy Nichols-Gelineau holds the MPSSAA 3200m indoor and outdoor track records and ran cross country and track for NC State
  • Mom, Susie, graduated from the University of Maryland
  • Also has a younger sister, Cassidy
  • Majoring in journalism
  • Aspires to conduct and publish research on social issues


Updated July 10, 2023

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

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  • 2021-22Sophomore

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  • 2022-23Junior

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  • 2023-24Senior

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  • 2024-25Graduate Student

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    5'1"