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2021-22 Track and Field Roster

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Kiara Birch

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Position Multis
  • Height 5-6
  • Hometown Jamaica, N.Y.
  • High School Campus Magnet High School

Biography

Honors and Awards
  • NE 10 Academic Honor Roll - Academic Excellence (Spring '20)
  • USTFCCCA All-Region - Outdoor Heptathlon (2019)
  • NE10 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Fall '17)
  • NE10 Academic Honor Roll - Academic Distinction (Fall '19, Fall '20)
  • NE10 Academic Honor Roll - Academic Honors (Spring '21, Fall '21)
2020-21
2019-20
  • Recorded three Top 10 finishes at the Elm City Challenge, including a third-place finish with a career-best time of 8.90 in the 55-meter hurdles (12/6-12/7)
  • Won the pentathlon at the NE10 Indoor Championships with a career-best 3,394 points - including first-place finishes in shot put and high jump (2/20-2/21) 
  • Also posted a second-place finish in the distance medley relay at the NE10 Indoor Championships (2/20-2/21)
  •  Finished sixth with a career-best time of 9.37 in the 60-meter hurdles at the UAlbany Winter Classic (2/7)

2018-19
  • Had nine Top 10 finishes on the year across sprints and multis
  • Placed a season-best second in the javelin with a mark of 29.78m in the Stony Brook Wolfie Invitational (4/20)
  • Finished fourth in the heptathlon at the famed Penn Relays with a combined score of 3,918 points, finishing just ahead of her sister, Eboni, a senior at St. John's University (4/23-4/24)
  • Earned points for the women's team in the pentathlon at the Northeast-10 Indoor championships, placing fourth overall with 2976 points - which included a second-place finish in the long jump (2/16-2/17)
  • Placed ninth in the javelin for a career-best with a distance of 32.11m, and third in the heptathlon with a season-best of 4186 points in the Northeast-10 Outdoor Track and Field Championship

2017-18
  • Finished in the top four with the 4x400 a total of four times on the year
  • Posted the team-best mark in the long jump on the season with a jump of 5.12m
  • Took second place with the 4x400 with a time of 3:55.65 at the NE10 Outdoor Championships, and fourth in the NE10 Indoor Championships
  • Posted two Top 10s as an individual at the TCNJ Invite in the 400m and the javelin (4/6-4/8)

At Campus Magnet
  • Graduated as class valedictorian
  • PSAL MVP Student Athlete
  • National Honor Society member
  • Academic Achievement in English, Social Studies, Science and Math
  • Also named MVP in soccer

Personal
  • Daughter of Laquita and Sidney 
  • Computer science major
  • Sister Eboni ran track and cross country at Saint John's 
  • Volunteer at the Bronx Zoo
  • Plans to go to veterinary school to become a zoological veterinarian

Birch's Career Bests 
  • 200m: 26.59 (5/4/19) 
  • 400m: 1:01.48 (2/14/20)
  • 55H: 8.90 (12/6/20)
  • 60H: 9.37 (2/7/20) 
  • LJ: 5.17m (2/19/19) 
  • SP: 10.98m (2/16/19)
  • DT: 29.31m (4/20/19)
  • WT: 10.80m (2/3/18) 
  • JT: 32.11m (5/3/19)  
  • PENT: 3394 (2/20/20)
  • HEP: 4,186 (5/3/19)

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Freshman

    Sprints/Javelin
    5'5"
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    Sprints/Javelin
    5'5"
  • 2019-20Junior

    Sprints/Javelin/Heptathlon
    5'5"
  • 2020-21Senior

    Sprints/Javelin/Heptathlon
    5'5"
  • 2021-22Graduate Student

    Multis
    5'6"