2022-2023 Track and Field Roster
Kayla Werner
- Class:
- Freshman
- Position:
- Distance
- Height:
- 5-5
- Hometown:
- Forest, Va.
- Prev School:
- Home Schooled
TFRRS Profile
All-ASUN Honors (1)
2022 Cross Country – 8th
2023 Outdoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Did not compete in any races for Liberty and was redshirted
• ASUN Academic Honor Roll member
2022-23 Indoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Did not compete in any races for Liberty and was redshirted
2022 Cross Country (Fr.)
• Fourth-fastest freshman at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship, where she crossed the finish line 35th overall
• Earned ASUN All-Freshman Team and second team All-ASUN honors by placing eighth at the ASUN Championship
• Two-time ASUN Women’s Freshman of the Week (Sept. 21 and Oct. 19)
• Fastest times of her freshman season were 16:40.0 in the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational 5K and 20:58.3 in the Weis-Crockett Invitational 6K
• Started off her collegiate career with a sixth-place showing at the Liberty Challenge, her first of four top-10 finishes
Prep
• Home schooled
• During her senior outdoor track & field season, won the RunningLane 3,200 title, placed fourth in the two-mile at New Balance Track Nationals and came in fifth in the Brooks PR two-mile (personal-best 10:05.65)
• Also set personal bests for the 1,500 (4:27.95) and 5K (16:44.51) while competing alongside collegiate competitors during the 2022 outdoor campaign
• National Merit Scholarship finalist
Personal
• Daughter of Aaron and Kathy Werner
• Father competed in track & field at Liberty
• Mother played basketball at Campbell
• Birthday is Oct. 20
• Undecided on a major
