2024 Cross Country Roster
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Catherine Farrell
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Height:
- 5-2
- Hometown:
- Nesconset, N.Y.
- Prev School:
- Smithtown High School East (Manhattan College)
Bio
TFRRS Profile
Conference USA Cross Country Championship (6K)
2023 (Bowling Green, Ky.): 5th place, 21:52.8 (1st Team All-Conference)
ASUN Cross Country Championship (5K)
2022 (Huntsville, Ala.): 17th place, 17:26.0 (3rd Team All-Conference)
NCAA Southeast Regional Championship (6K)
2022 (Louisville, Ky.): 98th place, 22:16.6
2023 (Spartanburg, S.C.): 80th place, 21:25.1
2024 Outdoor Track & Field (R-Jr.)
- Did not compete in any races
- CUSA Commissioner’s Academic Medal winner
- CUSA Commissioner’s Honor Roll member
2023-24 Indoor Track & Field (R-Jr.)
- Did not compete in any races
2023 Cross Country (R-Jr.)
- Liberty’s No. 2 runner for most of her breakout season, capped off by an 80th-place showing at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship
- Came in fifth at the CUSA Championship to earn first team All-CUSA accolades
- Improved her 6K personal best to 21:23.4 at the XC23 Pre-Nationals
2023 Outdoor Track & Field (R-So.)
- Clocked a personal-best 4:28.89 for seventh in the ASUN 1,500 final
- First collegiate finisher in both the 800 (personal-best 2:14.32) and 1,500 at the Dr. Jack M. Toms Alumni Invitational
2022-23 Indoor Track & Field (R-So.)
- Led off for Liberty’s ASUN runner-up distance medley relay squad, which posted the No. 3 time in program history (11:42.50)
- Also placed 22nd in the ASUN 3K in a personal-best 10:05.34
2022 Cross Country (R-So.)
- Clocked a 5K personal-best time of 17:26.0 at the ASUN Championship for 17th place overall and fifth on the team, earning third team All-ASUN honors
- Served as Liberty’s No. 7 finisher at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship, crossing the line in 98th
- Her big breakthrough came in the Paul Short Run open 6K, where she clocked a personal-best 21:35.5 for second place in the field of 314
2022 Outdoor Track & Field (R-Fr.)
- Improved her 1,500 clocking each time she ran the race, culminating with a 4:46.27 effort at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier
- Placed third in her lone 800 of the season at the WildCat Twilight (2:18.31)
- ASUN Academic Honor Roll member
2021-22 Indoor Track & Field (R-Fr.)
- Posted her fastest times of the season on back-to-back weeks, including a 2:22.98 800 at the Liberty Open and a 5:17.60 mile at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational
Fall 2021 Cross Country (R-Fr.)
- Ran one race, clocking a 5K time of 19:15 for 63rd at the Queen City Invite
Previous School
- Spent two years at Manhattan College (2019-20 and 2020-21)
- Placed 50th at the 2019 Metropolitan Athletic Cross Country Championship with a season-best 5K time of 20:50.7
- MAAC All-Academic Team honoree as a sophomore
Prep
- Graduated from Smithtown High School East
- New York indoor and outdoor state meet qualifier in the 1,500 as a senior, clocking a personal-best time of 4:40.17 outdoors
- Set the 4K cross country school record of 15:11 as a senior
- Other top times included 2:18.37 in the 800, 10:32.89 in the 3K and 18:42.95 in the cross country 5K
Personal
- Daughter of Gerald and Elizabeth Farrell
- Birthday is June 28
- Graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 2023
- Working toward a master's degree in finance
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