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2023 Cross Country Roster

Ashley Cefali

Klaudia O'Malley

Klaudia O'Malley

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    McBain, Mich.
  • High School:
    McBain

Summary

Biography

2023: USTFCCCA All-American... USTFCCCA All-Region... First-Team All-GLIAC...
Ran a personal-best 5k time at the Louisville XC Classic crossing the finish line 15th at 17:23.9... Finished third at the GLIAC Cross Country Championships at 21:15.6... Placed fourth with a finish at 20:15.4 at the NCAA DII Midwest Region Championships... Ran a personal-best 20:07.6 6000m time to place eighth at the NCAA DII Cross Country Championships...

2022: Finished first at the NCAA Division II Midwest Regionals with a time of 21:19.2… Placed third at the NCAA Division II Nationals crossing the line at 20:43.0… Earned third at the GLIAC Championships with a time of 21:27.2… Ran a personal-best 5k of 17:25.1 at the Louisville Classic…

2021: NCAA DII National Runner-Up finishing with a personal-best time of 20:26.9... Earned NCAA DII and USTFCCCA All-American honors... Placed fourth at the Midwest Region Championships with a time of 20:47.6... Finished second at the GLIAC Championships with a time of 22:05.6... Earned All-Region and First Team All-GLIAC honors... Finished first at the Lewis Crossover crossing the line at 21:54.1...Named USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week... Ran a time of 22:18.8 at the MSU Spartan Invitational placing 12th.

2020: Season canceled due to COVID. 

2019: Ran a season best time of 20:50.7 at the DII National Championships to earn 24th place and USTFCCCA All-American honors… Placed 10th at the Midwest Regionals in 21:17.9 to earn USTFCCCA All-Region honors… Finished 3rd at the GLIAC Championships in 21:36.7 to earn All-GLIAC First Team honors… Named the GLIAC Freshman of the Year… Helped the women’s team collect their 21st consecutive GLIAC Championship and Midwest Regionals titles… Earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors…

High School: Attended McBain High School where she participated in cross country and track & field.  Named to the cross country All-Conference and All-State teams during the 2015-2018 seasons.  Cross country team captain and MVP all four years and track & field captain and MVP 2016-2018.  Helped cross country team become conference champions during 2017 and 2018 seasons and qualify for state in 2018.  Track and field conference champions 2016-2018.  Recorded her best 800m time of 2:17.97 at the Comstock Park State Finals in 2018.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2019Freshman

  • 2020Sophomore

  • 2021Sophomore

  • 2022Junior

  • 2023Senior