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2022 Women's Cross Country Roster

Kaitlin Murray

Kaitlin Murray

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    Divine Child
  • Hometown:
    Redford, Mich.

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results

Career Highlights:
  • 4x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • 3x Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)
  • 3x Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023)
  • CSC Academic All-District (2023)

Career Best:
  • 5k: 19:18 at 2021 Live In The Lou Classic
  • 6k: 23:04 at 2021 NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships


2022:

  • Finished 3rd at the BSN Titans Invitational
  • Took 30th at the Horizon League Championship


2021:

  • Competed in all six races on the year, setting PR's in the 5k and 6k
  • Ended the year registering a career-best 23:04 in the 6k for 171st
  • Recorded 35th at the Horizon League Championships in 24:22
  • Earned 51st at Notre Dame in 19:54
  • Was top 20 at the Running Fit-Detroit Mercy Titan Invite taking 17th in 20:11 and registered her 5k career-best of 19:18 for 54th at Louisville  


2020:

  • Ran in both races on the season taking 17th in 19:53 at the Wright State Winter XC Challenge
  • Crossed the finish line in 24:58 for 50th at the Horizon League Championships

2019:
  • Made collegiate debut at the 33rd Annual Running Fit- Detroit Mercy Titan Invitational finishing 16th over-all in the 5k with a time of 20:07
  • Finished with a PR of 23:52 at the Horizon League Championships placing 74th 
  • Ran a 20:39 in the 5k at the Canisius Alumni Classic

Prior to Detroit Mercy: 
  • Four-year letter winner at Divine Child
  • A silver medalist at the MHSAA D2 cross country region 18 as a senior
  • Won the Running Fit-Detroit Mercy Cross Country Invitational in 2018
  • Named the MVP of the cross country team as a senior and was the Rookie of the Year as a freshman 
  • Won the distance award in track in 2016

Personal: 
  • Daughter of Patricia and Guy Murray
  • Her dad was the Titans President's Award winner at Detroit Mercy in 1989 running cross country and track and has been the head coach at the University for the past 27 years
  • Has a younger brother
  • Lists her biggest thrill in sports as winning perennial Catholic League titles
  • A Biology major

Career Finishes:
2021 Results

Sept. 11 - 35th Annual Running Fit - Detroit Mercy Titan Invitational (Cass Benton Park - Northville, MI) - 20:11 - 17th
Sept. 17 - National Catholic Championships (UND Cross Country Course - South Bend, IN) - 19:54 - 51st
Oct. 2 - Live In The Lou Classic (EP "Tom" Sawyer Park - Louisville, KY) - 19:18 - 54th
Oct. 16 - Falcon Invitational (BGSU XC Course - Bowling Green, OH) - 25:11 - 54th
Oct. 30 - Horizon League Championships (Northview Church Course - Carmel, IN) - 24:22 - 36th
Nov. 12 - Horizon League Championships (Angel Mounds XC Course - Evansville, IN) - 23:04 - 171st

2020 Results (run in the spring of 2021)
Feb. 6 - Wright State Winter XC Challenge (Fairborn Community Park - Fairborn, OH) - 19:53 - 17th
Mar. 4 - Horizon League Championships (Northview Church Course - Carmel, IN) - 24:58 - 50th

2019 Results
Sept. 7 - 33rd Annual Running Fit - Detroit Mercy Titan Invitational (Cass Benton Park - Northville, MI) - 20:07 - 16th
Sept. 20 - National Catholic Championships (UND Cross Country Course - South Bend, IN) - DNF
Oct. 5 - Greater Louisville Classic (Tom Sawyer Park - Louisville, KY) - 20:25 - 214th
Oct. 19 - Canisius Alumni Classic (Delaware Park - Buffalo, NY) - 20:39 - 54th
Nov. 2 - Horizon League Cross Country Championships (Valhalla Cross Country Course - Highland Heights, KY) - 23:52 - 74th
Nov. 15 - NCAA Great Lakes Regional (Thomas Zimmer Cross Country Course - Verona, WI) - 25:21 - 202nd

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