2014-15 Women's Track and Field

Kira Garry

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Friends Academy
  • Hometown Montauk, N.Y.

Biography

Collegiate Bests

1500m 4:24.8

3000m 9:21.90

3000m steeplechase 10:08.10

5000m 16:25

6k (xc) 20:14

High School Bests:

2k steeplechase 7:00

1,500m 4:46

3,000m 10:02

5,000m 17:46

2014-2015: In cross country, led the team in every meet she competed in…Finished 92nd in the DI National Championships…Awarded DI All-Academic Status, All-Ivy first team and All-Region honors…Ran a personal best in the 6k of 20:14 at Lehigh, placing ninth…Fourth overall at the Heptagonal Championships and 11th overall at the Northeast Regional meet…Won HYP…Awarded the Mike Stanley-John Cleary Class of 1954 Women''s Cross Country Award…In indoor track, led the team in the mile, 3,000-meter run, and 5,000-meter run…Awarded All-East honors and first team All-Ivy League honors…On Yale’s all-time lists, No. 4 in the 3,000-meter run, No. 6 in the one mile and No. 3 in the 5,000-meter run…Won the 5,000-meter at ECACs with PR of 16:27.53…Fourth at the BU Terrier Invitational with PR of 9:21.90 in the 3,000-meter run…Second in the mile at Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia with PR of 4:45.82…In outdoor track, lowered Yale record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase to 10:08.10 at the NCAA DI East Preliminary Round, placing 19th…Earned a personal best of 4:24.8 in the 1,500m at the Boston Twilight Meet #3 and a personal best of 16:25 in the 5,000m at the Boston Twilight Meet #4...On Yale''s all-time lists, No. 4 in the 1,500m, No. 7 in the 5,000m and No. 9 in the 3,000m...Sixth in the steeplechase at the Heptagonal Championships…Won the steeplechase at Harvard-Yale…Competed at the Virginia Challenge and Penn Relays...Ran a leg of Yale''s No. 2 DMR team.

2013-2014: In cross country, ran personal best in 6k of 21:26 at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, finishing first on the team….First on the team and 25th overall at Boston College Invite, running a season best 5k of 17:55….First on the team at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships…First on the team and 13th overall at the New England Championships….10thoverall at Harvard-Yale…Competed in the NCAA Northeast Regional meet. In indoor track, earned personal best in the mile of 4:50.68 at HYP…Earned personal best in the 3,000m run of 9:29.57 at the Boston University Terrier Invitational…Also claimed personal best in the 5,000m run of 16:42.19 at Heps. In outdoor track, lowered her previously-set record in the 3,000m steeplechase to 10:17.52 at the NCAA East Preliminary Round, where she placed 16th…Earned All-East Honors as part of the 4x800-meter relay team that took fifth place at the ECAC Championships…Third in the steeplechase at Heps…Took eighth place in the steeplechase at the Stanford Invitational…Earned personal best in the 1,500m of 4:33.53 at Harvard-Yale, taking fourth place.

2012-2013: In cross country, competed at the NCAA Regionals, Heps, the Wisconsin Invitational, and the Paul Short Invitational...In outdoor track, ran a personal best of 4:38.66 in the 1,500m, placing fifth at Harvard-Yale...Finished fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at ECACs...Placed second in the 3,000m at the Sam Howell Invitational...Eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at Heps.

2011-2012: In cross country, fifth on the team and 53rd overall at NCAA Northeast Regional to help the Bulldogs to a sixth-place finish...Competed at Heps...Scored in her first collegiate meet, the Fordham Invitational...Competed at HYP and the Princeton Invitational...Sixth on the team at the Paul Short Invite, where the Bulldogs beat the nationally ranked Duke Blue Devils…In indoor track,  competed in the 3,000-meter run at ECACs, placing fourth in 9:45.87…Also placed 12th in the 5,000-meter run at Heps…In outdoor track, qualified to compete in the NCAA Regional in the 3,000-meter steeplechase…Ran a season-best 10:28.63 in the steeplechase at Heps, good for fifth…Won the steeplechase at HY…Competed in the 10,000-meter run at the Raleigh Relays, placing 13th…Ninth in the 3,000-meter run at ECACs in 9:57.17…Set the Yale record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:22.81) at the New Balance Boston Twilight Meet, earning a spot in the U.S. Junior National Championships, where she placed fifth.

High School:  Two-time All-American in the steeplechase (2009-2010)...2010 All-American in the 5,000m... All-State and All-Federation in XC (2009-2010)... All-State in the steeplechase (2009-2011)... Third at States in XC and steeple 2009... Two-time NY state sportsmanship winner... A News 12 Scholar Athlete.

Personal: Berkeley College.

2014-2015 Track and Field Captain

Historical Player Information

  • 2011-12First Year

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  • 2012-13Sophomore

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  • 2013-14Junior

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  • 2014-15Senior

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