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2025-26 Women's Track and Field

Katie Koryczan

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Crown Point
  • Hometown Crown Point, Ind.

Biography

2025 CSC Academic All-District
2024 CSC Academic All-District

2024-25: Set a program record in the indoor pentathlon and recorded the third best indoor 60m hurdles in program history at the 2025 MVC Indoor Track & Field Championship… Set a new personal best in the indoor shot put and javelin throw at the IWU Polar Bear Classic… Recorded four new personal bests including the third best outdoor heptathlon in program history at the Gibson Invitational on Apr. 17-19… Earned Valparaiso University Presidential Academic Honors, MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award, MVC Honor Roll and College Sports Communicators Academic All-District. 

2024: Earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors… Had a program-record of 2,583 in the pentathlon at the MVC Indoor Championships (Feb. 25-26) including a PR of 9.80 seconds in the 60 hurdles with a time that ranked fifth in program history and was the program’s best since 2016… Cleared a PR of 1.45m (4-9) in the high jump on Jan. 20 at the Butler Invitational… Totaled 3,166 points in the heptathlon at the 2024 MVC Outdoor Championships.

Before Valpo: Spent her freshman year at Purdue Northwest, where she became the program recordholder in the pentathlon... Scholar-Athlete all four years of high school at Crown Point... 2021 Mental Attitude Award winner... 2021 team MVP, HSR qualifier in 2022 (60m H), Nike Indoor National Qualifier (2022, 60m H), Crown Point & Princess Relays Shuttle Hurdle Record (1:06.27)... Adidas Nationals All-American in Shuttle Hurdles (1:04.78)... Graduated Magma Cum Laude and was a National Honor Society director... Earned a 4.0 GPA both semesters at Purdue Northwest.

Personal: Majoring in exercise science... Daughter of Kim and Dave Koryczan... Has a sister, Jenny.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Multi
  • 2024-25Junior

  • 2025-26Senior