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2019-2020 Women's Track & Field Roster

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Kelly Groth

  • Class Senior
  • Events Sprints
  • Height 5-2
  • Hometown Audubon, Pa.
  • High School Methacton
  • Major Elementary Education

Biography

Career Honors
2019 CoSIDA Academic All-District
2019 PSAC Champion (60m)
2x All-Atlantic Region (1x 60m, 1x 200m)
2019 PSAC Most Outstanding Runner
School-Record in Indoor 55m
School-Record in Indoor 60m
School-Record in Indoor 200m
School-Record in Outdoor 100m
School-Record in Outdoor 200m
PSAC Track Athlete of the Week (1/29/19)
4x All-PSAC (4x400m (2x), 60m, 200m)
2x PSAC Scholar-Athlete
5x Dean's List Honors
D2ADA Academic Achievement Award (2017-18)

PSAC Championship Performances
2017 Indoor - 60m (7th), 200m (11th), 4x400m (5th)
2017 Outdoor - 4x100m (8th)
2018 Indoor - 60m (10th), 200m (14th), 4x400m (2nd)
2018 Outdoor - 100m (9th), 200m (15th), 4x400m (5th), 4x100m (8th)
2019 Indoor - 60m (1st), 200m (2nd), 4x400m (1st)

2019 (OUTDOOR): Earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors (5/29).

2018-19 (INDOOR): USTFCCCA All-Atlantic Region in the 60m and 200m (2/27)...Became a PSAC champion by winning the 60m in a time of 7.70, was also a member of the winning 4x4 relay team, and was named the Most Outstanding Runner at the 2019 PSAC Indoor Championships (2/23)...Voted PSAC Track Athlete of the Week (1/29)...Posted a new school-record time of 25.42, winning the 200m at the Bison Open (1/25)...Earned a PSAC and personal-best mark of 25.84 in the 200m at the NYC Gotham Cup (1/18)...Ran a 7.23 55m in setting the school-record at the Golden Bear Invitational (1/11)...Set a new school-record in the 60m with a PSAC-Qualifying time of 7.73 and also earned a PSAC mark in the 200m at the Fast Times Before Finals meet at Lehigh University (12/8).

2018 (OUTDOOR): D2ADA Academic Achievement Award...PSAC Scholar-Athlete...Broke the school-record in the 100m dash in prelims of the PSAC Championships. She finished in ninth place in 12.14 seconds, breaking a 35-year record. She finished 15th in the 200m with a PR of 25.59 for eighth in school history. In the relays, she ran as part of the fifth-place 4x400m relay team that ranked fifth in school history at 3:53.78, and ran in the finals of the 4x100m that timed a 47.90 in finals for third in school history and eighth-place at PSACs (5/4)...Moved up to third all-time with a 12.30 in the 100m dash to finish sixth in finals at Shippensburg's Paul Kaiser Classic (4/28)...Competed in the 4x400m relay at the Penn Relays, finishing 47th (4/26)...Won the 100m dash and moved into fourth in school history with a prelim time of 12.40 seconds at Moravian's Greyhound Invitational (4/21)...Ran a PSAC existing time of 12.60 in the 100m at the Bison Outdoor Classic (4/15)...Posted PSAC qualifying marks of 12.59 in the 100m and 25.76 in the 200m respectively at the Colonial Relays (4/6)...Fourth place in the 200m in a Quad Meet at West Chester (3/31).

2017-18 (INDOOR): At the PSAC Championships, she ran as the second-place and All-PSAC 4x400m relay team in 3:56.97, second in school history. She also placed 10th in the 60m dash in a season-best 7.86 seconds, and 14th in the 200m in a season-best 25.97 (2/24)...Won the finals of the 55m dash in a PR of 7.30 seconds, third in school history, at KU's Last Chance Invite (2/16)...Second place in the finals of the 60m dash at Susquehanna, finishing in 8.08 seconds (2/3)...Part of the winning 4x400m relay team at the Bison Open (1/27)...Finished second in the finals of the 55m dash in a new PSAC time at the Golden Bear Invitational (1/12)...Posted a PSAC mark in the 60m and 200m at the Bison Opener (12/2).

2017 (OUTDOOR): PSAC Scholar-Athlete...Competed in the eighth-place 4x100m relay at the PSAC Outdoor Championships (5/5)...Ran the eighth-fastest time in school history in the 100m (12.50)...Ran the final leg of the second-place 4x100m relay that ranked fifth in school history at 48.39 at the Paul Kaiser Classic (4/29).

2016-17 (INDOOR): Was part of the fourth-fastest 4x400m in school history and ran the third-fastest time in the 200m (25.87) in school history at the PSAC Championships. She also ran a season-best 7.83 in the 60m dash (2/26)...Recorded a season-best in the 55m dash (7.36) for fifth in program history at the KU Last Chance Qualifier (2/18)...Tallied a then-season-best in the 60m dash (7.97) which improves her sixth fastest time in program history at the Monmouth Winter Collegiate Invitational (2/11)...Posted the sixth-fastest time in program history in the 60m dash (7.98) at the Frank Colden Invitational (2/4)...Second place in the 55m in 7.41 for sixth all-time at the Golden Bear Invitational (1/13)...Recorded the seventh-fastest time in program history in the 60m (8.00) at the Bison Opener (12/3).

TFRRS Performance List
Personal Bests
Event Indoor Outdoor
55m 7.23 --
60m 7.70 --
100m -- 11.96
200m 25.42 25.21
4x1 Relay -- 55.21

The Groth File
Nickname: KG
Why Kutztown: Education program
Favorite Place on Campus: The track or O’Pake Fieldhouse
Place I’d like to visit: Bermuda
I spent the summer: Working at a daycare
Favorite Show to Binge Watch: The Simpsons
If You Could Choose any Superpower, What Would it Be: Teleportation
Goal for 2018-19: Make finals at PSACs

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-2017Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2017-2018Sophomore

    Sprints
  • 2018-2019Junior

    Sprints
  • 2019-2020Senior

    Sprints
    5'2"
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