Hanna Kiess

Outdoor Track & Field (Freshman*): Saw action in six meets in the outdoor season … Opened the season at the New Mexico Spring Invitational on March 23, securing 2nd place in the 400m with a personal-best time of 57.92 … Finished 2nd in the 400H with a time of 1:02.04 and 3rd in the 4×400 relay at the Don Kirby Tailwind Open on April 19 … Improved her 400H time to a season-best 1:01.75 at MW Outdoor Championships, placing 12th in the preliminaries on May 9 … Also contributed to the 4×400 relay team, which finished 7th with a time of 3:42.58 at the same championship.

Indoor Track & Field (Freshman*): Competed in four meets after joining the team at the semester … Kicked off her first collegiate season at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational on January 20, competing in the 60m and finishing 42nd … She posted improvements in the 60m, 200m and 400m in subsequent meets, including a 16th-place finish in the 400m with a time of 58.22 and a 9th-place finish in the 4×400 relay at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic on February 3 … Notched a season-best in the 400m with a time of 57.98 and a personal best in the 200m (25.90) at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational.

*Junior academically.

Raced her way to a Top-5 finish in at least one event for five years in a row at NMAA 5A State Championships, doing so as an eighth-grader in 2017 … Won 5A New Mexico state titles in the 100m Hurdles and 300m Hurdles her senior year in 2021 while competing for Cleveland HS, posting personal bests of 14.85 in the 100m Hurdles and 44.61 in the 300m Hurdles … Also finished third in the High Jump (4′ 10″) … Her sophomore year in 2019, finished 2nd and 3rd in the state in the 100H and 300H, respectively, running a leg of a 4x200m Relay team that finished fourth … As a freshman, finished fifth in the 300m Hurdles … As an eighth-grader in 2017, contributed to Cleveland’s state championship 4x400m Relay team (3:59.04) and finished fifth in the 300H.