University of Detroit Mercy Athletics

Career Highlights:

• 2x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2023, 2024)
• Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2024)
• Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2025)

• Earned sixth in the 3,000m steeplechase in 12:13.57 for sixth at Oakland's Golden Grizzlies Invite
• Posted a career-best 11:05.57 for 10th in the Chippewa Challenge
• Ran 19:23.42 for 18th in the 5,000m at Oakland's Elaine Leigh Invite
• Claimed 17th in the 3,000m steeplechase in 12:35.80 at the Jesse Owens Classic
• Ended the year finishing 17th in the 3,000m steeplechase (12:15.70) and 36th in the 1,500m (5:18.04) at the Horizon League Championships

• Opened the season taking seventh in the 3,000m (11:08.11) at the SVSU Classic
• Tallied a pair of PR's in the 800m (2:34.47) for 24th and in the mile (5:34.23) for 21st at EMU's Bob Parks Memorial
• Ran a career-best 19:11.24 for ninth at the Akron Invitational
• Was 22nd in the 5,000m (19:20.70) and 35th in the 3,000m (11:13.77) at the Horizon League Championships

• Recorded a 12:15.34 in the steeplechase for third at Eastern Illinois' Big Blue Classic
• Posted a season-best 11:17.31 in the 3,000m for fifth at the Chippewa Challenge
• Finished eighth in the steeplechase (12:23.52) and 16th in the 1,500m (5:11.21) at Oakland's Elaine Leigh Invite
• Clocked a couple of season-bests at the Horizon League Championships, taking 11th in the steeplechase (11:54.72) and 26th in the 1,500m (5:00.85)

• Made her collegiate debut in the 3,000m and finished 14th in 11:38.97 at the SVSU Classic
• Ran the mile in 5:49.89 for 18th at Eastern Michigan's Bob Parks Memorial
• Tallied a time of 20:10.77 for 19th in the 5,000m at the Akron Invitational
• Placed 38th in the 3,000m in 11:23.23 at the Horizon League Championships

• Lettered in cross country and track and field
• Helped her team to a pair of OFSAA bronze finishes in 2022 and 2023
• Was the Lambton Kent District individual champion in cross country in 2019, leading her team to a title
• Also won the 2019 Windsor Invite title and guided the team to a SWOSSAA championship
• Won the SWOSSA steeplechase in 2022 and 2023, setting a meet record as a junior

• Daughter of Susan and Scott Burns
• Has a younger brother and sister
• Chose Detroit Mercy because of the academic reputation and the atmosphere
• A Computer Science major