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2017 Cross Country Roster

Kayla Ferron

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • High School Redondo Union
  • Hometown Torrance, Calif.

Biography

2016 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
2016 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention (Cross Country)

Personal Best Marks

Indoors:
800-meter race – 2:17.20 (Cherry & Silver Invite 1/25/14)
Mile – 4:59.22 (Husky Classic 2/15/14)
Outdoors:
800-meter race – 2:22.50 (ASU Invitational 3/28/15)
1,500-meter race – 4:40.28 (LSU Alumni Gold 4/18/15)
3,000-meter: 10:33.19 (Jim Click Shootout 4/09/16)
5,000-meter race – 17:42.00 (Brutus Hamilton Invite 4/22/16)
2,000-meter steeplechase: 7:33.53 (Willie Williams Classic 3/17/17)
3,000-meter steeplechase: 11:05.73 (Pac-12 Championships 5/13/17)
 
2017
Indoors: Did not compete in the indoor season …
Outdoors: Competed in a pair of 3,000-meter events, one 2,000 steeplechase and four 3,000-meter steeple chase events … Tabbed second place finishes at the Duel in the Desert and TCU Big 5 Classic in the 3,000-meter steeplechase … 


2016 (XC): Ferron competed in every meet for the Wildcats this season totaling at seven races. She had three top-15 finishes, taking fourth at the ASU Invitational, 10th at the Dave Murray Invitational, and 13th at the George Kyte Classic. Ferron went on to take 85th at the Pac-12 Championships and another 85th place finish at the NCAA West Regional.

2016: Indoors, Ferron competed in the 800-meter race, the 3,000-meter race, and the mile race over the 2016 indoor campaign. She competed in each event one time. She had a top-10 finish in the 800-meter race where she placed eighth overall at the Lumberjack Team Challenge with a time of 2:28.02 … Outdoors, Ferron ran in two 3,000-meter races placing in the top-four in both. In addition, she ran in three 5,000-meter races where she placed in the top-seven for each race. She claimed a new personal best at The Brutus Hamilton Invite, where she marked 17:42.00 for a sixth-place finish. 

2015 (XC): Took first place at the ASU Invitational in a 3K race at a time of 17:46. … Finished 12th in a three-mile race at the Dave Murray Classic with a time of 17:49 … Placed in 84th place at the NCAA West Regional with a time of 22:12.20 to help the Cats to a 14th place finish.

2015: Indoors, took 33rd at the MPSF Championships in the mile run with a time of 5:11.66 … Set a season best time at the Husky Classic in the mile with a time of 5:01.91 … Outdoors, set a personal best in the 1,500-meter race at the LSU Alumni Gold meet with a time of 4:40.29 … Took 31st in the Pac-12 Championships in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:48.82 … Ran the 800-meter run in a time of 2:22.50 at the ASU Invitational.

2014 (XC): Took second place at the ASU Invitational by clocking a time of 18:10.60 in the three-mile race … Finished with a time of 22:34 at the Pac-12 Championships in the 6K.

2014: Indoors, Ferron ran the 800-meter race at the Cherry and Silver Invitational, clocking a time of 2:17.20 … Ferron ran the mile at the Husky Classic, clocking a time of 4:59.22 … She also competed at UW Invitational, running the mile in 5:02.90 … Outdoors, Ferron redshirted the season.

2013 (XC): Ferron redshirted the season.

HIGH SCHOOL: She is a graduate of Redondo Union High School … She was the team captain of cross country and track for her senior year … She was the cross team MVP her freshman, junior and senior year … She earned the MVP honor for the track and field team her junior and senior year … She earned first-team all-city honors for cross country as a junior and senior … On the track, she earned second-team all-city accolades as a junior and first-team all-city accolades as a senior … She was a member of the CIF DII Champion 4x400-meter relay team … She took 10th place at the Nike Cross Country Nationals … She was a member the 4x1,600-meter relay team that set the national record.

PERSONAL: She is the daughter of Julie and John Ferron and was born in Key West, Fla. … She has not selected a major yet.

Historical Player Information

  • 2013Freshman

    5'5"
  • 2014Redshirt Freshman

    5'5"
  • 2015Redshirt Sophomore

    5'5"
  • 2016Redshirt Junior

    5'5"
  • 2017Redshirt Senior

    5'5"
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