Kira Kelly

Height:
5-6
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Summit HS
Hometown:
Bend, Ore.

PERSONAL BESTS

1,500m – 4:36.14
Lewis & Clark Spring Break Invitational
Salem, Ore., 3/19/16
Mile - 4:59.38 (i)
Husky Classic
Seattle, Wash., 2/14/15
3,000m – 9:48.01 (i)
MPSF championships
Seattle, Wash., 2/28/15
5,000m– 17:15.18
Oregon Relays
Eugene, Ore., 4/17/15

Pac-12 Track and Field Championships
2015 - 5,000m, 27th, 17:42.71.
2013 – 5,000m, 23rd, 17:51.30

Pac-12 Cross Country Championships
2015, 67th, 22:07 (6,000m)
2012, 54th, 21:59 (6,000m)

NCAA Cross Country West Regionals
2015, 115th, 22:26 (6,000m)
2012, 86th, 21:26 (6,000m)

TRACK AND FIELD

2016
Outdoors: Competed in three meets ... set PR in 1500 in first meet of the season ... first-team Pac-12 All-Academic. Indoors: Competed in three meets ... placed 31st at MPSF Championships in 3000m in 10:04 ... named to MPSF all-academic team. Season Bests: Outdoors - 1500m, 4:36.15, Lewis & Clark Spring Break Invitational, Portland (3/19/16). Indoors - Mile, 5:01.63, Husky Classic, Seattle, Wash. (2/13/16). 3000m, 10:04.00, MPSF Championships, Seattle, Wash. (2/27/16).

2015
Outdoors: Placed 27th at Pac-12 meet in 5,000m in 17:42.71 ... Set 5,000m PR at Oregon Relays (4/17/15) ... Named first-team Pac-12 All-Academic. Indoors: Competed in two meets ... Placed 32nd at MPSF championships in 3,000 (9:48.01), the third-fastest indoor time in school history ... Named to MPSF All-Academic team. Season Bests: Outdoors - 1,500m - 4:33.37, High Performance Meet, Corvallis, Ore. (5/1/15); 5,000m - 17:15.18, Oregon Relays, Eugene, Ore. (4/17/15). Indoors - Mile - 4:59.39, Husky Classic, Seattle (2/14/15); 3,000m - 9:48.01, MPSF championships, Seattle (2/28/15).

2014
Outdoors: Did not compete. Indoors: Did not compete.

2013
Outdoors: Competed five times during the outdoor season, twice in the 1,500m and three times in the 5,000m … PR’d in the 1,500m in her outdoor debut at the Willamette Opener (March 2) when she ran 4:43.53 to finish third … Also PR’d in her first-ever 5K when she ran 17:17.45 at the Stanford Invitational (March 29) … Was Oregon State’s lone representative in the 5,000m at the Pac-12 Championships (May 12), finishing 23rd with a time of 17:51.30. Indoors: Finished fourth in the 3,000m at the UW Invitational (Jan. 20) with a time of 9:56.81, which places fifth on Oregon State’s all-time indoor list in that event. Season Bests: Outdoors – 1,500m – 4:43.53 (PR), Willamette Opener, Salem, Ore. (3/2/13); 5,000m – 17:17.45 (PR), Stanford Invitational, Palo Alto, Calif. (3/29/13). Indoors – 3,000m – 9:56.81, UW Invitational, Seattle, Wash. (1/20/13).

CROSS COUNTRY

2015
Ran in 3 of 6 races, with best finish a fourth place at the Westmoreland Quintet on Sept. 1 ... had season-best time of 22:07 for 6,000 meters at Pac-12 championships on Oct. 30 ... earned first-team Pac-12 all-academic honors.

2014
Redshirted.

2013
Named to the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team … Finished ninth at the Viking Classic in the season’s first race, running 16:44.96 … Posted her best 6,000-meter time at the Sundodger Invite (22:01) … Also came in 54th at the NCAA Inter-Regional Jamboree (17:54) and 100th at the Bronco Invite (22:05.5).

2012
Was Oregon State’s top freshman finisher and third overall at NCAA Regionals on Nov. 9, finishing 86th with a time of 21:27, which is the 11th-fastest 6,000-meter result in OSU history … Also posted the program’s 19th-best 5,000-meter time in her first career race at the Pier Park Invitational on Sept. 1, coming in 11th at 17:51.2 … Came in 54th at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 22:00 … Ran in the Women’s Red Seeded 6K at NCAA Pre-Nationals, registering a time of 21:57.9 for 149th on the 6,000-meter course … Came in sixth at the Charles Bowles Invitational on Sept. 29 (18:19.79; 5K).

SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL
Competed four years at the varsity level in cross country for head coach Dave Clark and in track for head coach Dave Turnbull … Served as a team captain for both the cross country and track teams … Was an all-state team member and also earned her school’s most inspirational and coach’s awards … Teams were both state and regional champions as well as national qualifiers … Personal records include 4:43 in the 1,500, 10:28 in the 3,000 and 18:42 in the cross country 5K.

PERSONAL
Kinesiology major ...Daughter of Nancy and Doug Kelly ... Has an older brother, Nate … Former prep teammates competing at the Division I level include Megan Fristoe and Ashley Maton at Oregon, Alyssa O’Connor at Cornell and Hilary Sharpe at Oregon State … Member of the National Honor Society … Lists Galen Rupp as her favorite athlete growing up … Describes running at Nike Cross Nationals in 2011 as her biggest athletic thrill to date … Chose Oregon State because of the “family atmosphere, it’s close to home and I love the team and the coaches.”