Georgia State University Athletics

CAREER AWARDS AND HONORS
Was conference champion in 2015...Earned All-Sun Belt six times: two times in cross country (2013 and 2012), three times in outdoor track (2013-15) and one time in indoor track (2014)...Has earned All-Sun Belt in five league competitions...Named to GSU All-Academic team at 2014 and 2015 athletics banquet for highest GPA on team.

ACADEMICS
• Won team’s highest GPA award at Athletics Awards Banquet
• Spring 2015 President’s List
• Fall 2014 President’s List
• Spring 2014 Dean’s List

OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2015
Won Sun Belt championship in 3,000m steeplechase (10:44.81)...Ran season-best 10:43.69 at Penn Relays...Ran 1,500m at Georgia and clocked 4:32.14 to finish sixth.

INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2015
Finished fourth in mile run at Sun Belt Championships (4:58.01) and ran a 5:01.31 at Ohio SPIRE...Finished second in 3,000m at ETSU (10:15.39)...Finished fifth at Sun Belt Championships with Distance Medley relay team (12:05.22).

CROSS COUNTRY 2014
High point of senior season was third-place finish at JSU Foothills in team’s first-place finish...Finished 30th at Sun Belt Conference Championships in 18:26.1...Was seventh in team’s 8-0 Duals win at the Chattanooga Invite...Had ninth-place finishes at both the WCU Invitational and the Winthrop Invitational...Was 38th of 292 runners in the Alabama Crimson Classic.

OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2014
Had the second-fastest 1,500m time in school history when she ran 4:26.64 at the Florida Relays, missing the school record by one second...Won the Yellow Jacket Invitational in the rain as her parents watched her run collegiately for the first time, posting a 4:32.26 in beating an Ohio State runner by a second...Won the 3,000m steeplechase at Troy in 10:32.02, the fourth fastest time in the school record book...Earned All-Sun Belt Conference honors by finishing third in 10:38.04.

INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2014
Set the school record in the mile run when she clocked a 4:54.47 at the Southern Miss Cupid Classic on Valentine’s Day...Earned All-Sun Belt Conference honors by finishing second in the mile in 4:56.77...Had the team’s second-best time of the season in the 3,000m run with a 9:51.11 time to finish seventh at the Sun Belt Championships...The time was two seconds better than her time at the Samford Invitational (9:53.42).

CROSS COUNTRY 2013
Earned All-Sun Belt second-team honors by finishing seventh at the championship meet at Troy with a time of 18:24.6...Lowered her personal-best times in the 4k (16:58.96) at the GSU Invitational and in the 5k (17:47.96) at the Crimson Classic at Alabama...Finished second on the team in seven races...Had four top-10 finishes on the year with a second-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-place finish over the season.

OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2013
Finished third in the 1,500m and fifth in the 800m at the Sun Belt Championships to score 10 points for the team...Won the 1,500m at the War Eagle Invite with a PR time of 4:29.16, which is the fourth-fastest time in program history...Best effort in the 800m came at the Samford Invite where she finished fourth with a time of 2:12.32...Recorded seven top-10 finishes in the two events...Named to the Dean’s List during the spring semester.

INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2013
Excelled in the middle distance events for the Panthers, running in the 800m and mile...At the Sun Belt Championships, placed seventh in the mile and eighth in the 800m to score three points for GSU...Top qualifier in the 800m at the Sun Belt meet with a personal-best time of 2:15.34...Ran the anchor leg of the distance medley relay team that placed seventh at the conference championship...Ran a personal-best 5:03.35 in the mile at the Samford Invite...Won the 1,000m at the Orange and Purple Winter Classic in 2:58.16.

CROSS COUNTRY 2012
Named to the All-Sun Belt third team after placing 12th at the conference meet...Third finisher for the Sun Belt champion team...Competed in all eight meets for the Panthers...Recorded three top-10 finishes during the season, including two fourth-place finishes at the GSU Invite and West Georgia Invite...Recorded a personal-best 5K time of 18:29.94 at the West Georgia Invite...Concluded the season with a 6K personal best of 21:59.8 at the NCAA Regional.

OUTDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2012
Placed second in the 1,500m at the Southern Invitational with a time of 4:39.81...Took home another second-place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:14.46 at the Georgia Intercollegiate...Fourth-place finisher in the 1,500m in 4:38.58 in the UGA Relays...Placed ninth at the Yellow Jacket Invite 800m with a time of 2:17.19...Runner-up in the 1,500m (4:36.58) and placed seventh in the 800m (2:16.25) at the Mississippi Open...Sixth-place finisher in the War Eagle Invite 800m by running 2:14.48...Placed fifth in the 1,500m at the CAA Championships to contribute four points to a third-place team finish.

INDOOR TRACK and FIELD 2012
Ran a 3:03.44 to finish third in the 1,000m at the Clemson Winter Classic...Placed sixth in the 800m (2:15.68) and 11th in the mile (5:05.10) at the Vulcan Invite...Won the mile (5:13.28) and placed second in the 800m (2:20.37) at the Sewanee Invite.

CROSS COUNTRY 2011
Placed 37th overall at the GSU Invite, running the 6K course in a time of 24:50...Placed seventh overall in a team victory at the Jaguar Invite, with a time of 24:24.1...Placed 31st at the CAA Championships with a time of 23:43...Finished third on the team and 93rd overall at the NCAA South Regional meet in a personal best time of 22:51.4.

PREP
Attended Loreto Abbey Dalkey High School in Dublin, Ireland…Coached by Ryan Montgomery and Theresa Kinane…School won national cross country titles in 2009 and 2010…Represented Ireland in junior international meets in cross country, indoor and outdoor track…Finished first at the 2008 Irish U18 cross country meet and the All-Ireland U19 1,500 meter in 2009…Won the U18 National 1,500 meter steeplechase and took third in the U19 National 3,000 meters… Also played soccer in high school…Her club soccer team won national championships in 2006, 2007 and 2009…Played on the Irish Women’s U17 and U19 teams in the European Championship league.

PERSONAL
Niamh Kearney was born Dec.4, 1992 in Dublin, Ireland and lives along the Irish Sea in Greystones...Parents are Pat and Deirdre Kearney…Has an older brother Ronan…Graduated with degree in nutrition an is pursuing a master’s degree in health science...Was named to GSU’s All-Academic team in 2014-15 and 2013-14 to represent team.