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2025 Women's Outdoor Track & Field Roster

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Jason Plante

Cat Dacey

  • Class Senior
  • Event Distance
  • Height 5-3
  • Hometown Hopkinton, Mass.
  • High School Hopkinton
  • Major Neuroscience

Biography

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I knew that I wanted to attend a small liberal arts college, and I was drawn to Union because of the strong academics and athletics. When I visited campus, I loved everything about it.


Honors and Awards:
- All-Liberty League Honorable Mention - 4x400 Meter Relay (2023)
- CSC Academic All-District Team (2023, 2024, 2025)
- Liberty League All-Academic Team (2023, 2024, 2025)
- Robert M. Ridings Memorial Award (2024-25)
- ECAC Medal of Merit (2023-24)
- Female Sophomore Athletic Prize (2022-23)
- Terry Lynch-Jackie Havercamp Cuttita Memorial Award (2021-22)

At Union: Member of Union's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee ... Nu Rho Psi Neuroscience National Honor Society ... a 3x Dean's List student ... also runs on the cross country team in the fall.

2025 Outdoor: Appeared in six meets … finished the season with new school records in the 800 meters, 1500 meters and 5000 meters … ended the year by breaking the 1500 record with a fifth-place finish at the AARTFC Championships (5/15), finishing in 4:37.60 … smashed the school record in her first collegiate attempt at the 5000, placing fifth in 17:44.05 at the Liberty League Championships (5/3) … raced to a program-record time of 2:15.63 in the 800 at the Trinity Invitational (4/19).
 
2024-25 Indoor: Appeared in eight meets … broke her own school records in the 1500 meters and mile … took fifth in the mile at the AARTFC Championships (3/7) with a program-record time of 5:04.99 … claimed the school standard in the 1500 by finishing in 4:52.91 at the BU John Thomas Terrier Classic (1/31) … helped to break the school record in the distance medley relay with a time of 12:18.34 at the D-III Elite Meet (2/15).

2024 Outdoor: Appeared in all seven meets…competed in the 800, 1500, 4x400, and 4x800…broke two individual records and part of a third relay record this season…broke program’s 35-year-old 800 record at Farley Inter Regional (5/11), crossing the line in 2:17.01 to finish fifth…reset her own program record in the 1500 at AARTFC Regionals (5/16) with a 4:41.92 time, coming in sixth…helped smash 4x800 relay record by over 12 seconds in final event of season at Regionals, finishing third…picked up a pair of wins in the 1500 at Trinity Invitational (4/20) and RPI Under the Lights Invitational (4/12)…also took fourth in the 800 at Under the Lights Invite…finished in second in the 800 at RPI Capital District Classic (4/26)…finished in third in 1500 and on third place 4x400 team at Pioneer Spring Invitational (4/6)…took seventh in the 1500 at Liberty League Championships (5/4).

2023-24 Indoor: Appeared in six meets for the Garnet Chargers…competed in the 800, mile, and 3000…began season by smashing the program’s 3000 record with her 10:30.31 time at Suffolk Relays (12/2), finishing eighth…scored victory in the mile and fourth in the 800 at Utica Blue and Orange Invite (1/27)…set personal best in the mile in final three competitions of the season, finishing with a 5:07.68 time at Tufts National Qualifying Meet (3/2)…took fifth in the mile and eighth in the 800 at Liberty League Championships (2/23-2/24).

2023 Outdoor: Appeared in five meets this season … competed in the 800m, and the 1500m … Dacey set the 1500m school record with a 4:45.19 and earned fourth place at the Liberty League Championships (5/5-6) … recorded three wins in the 1500m this season … in the 800m she clocked a season-best 2:22.75 at the RPI Capital District Classic (4/28) … competed in the All-Atlantic Regional Track and Field Championships (5/18) with a 4:48.85 in the 1500m.

2022-23 Indoor: Appeared in all nine meets … competed in the 800m, mile, 1000m, and 3000m … won two races this season in the 800m and the mile … ran a 11:07.12 in the 3000m at the Springfield College Home Opener (12/3) … clocked a season-best 3:13.95 in the 1000m at the Utica Winter Opener (1/14) … ran a personal best at the AARTFC (3/3-4) with a 5:10.44 in the mile … qualified for the AARTFC in the mile.

2021-22 Outdoor: Appeared in all six outdoor meets for Union … finished first three times, twice in the 1500m and once in the 800m … ran a season best 4:52.99 in the 1500m at the Liberty League Championships (5/7) … ran a season-best 800 at the RPI Capital District Classic (4/30) with a 2:21.47 ... qualified for the AARTFC (5/19) in the 1500m, where she ran a 4:49.67 for a seventh place finish overall at the meet. 

2021-22 Indoor: Earned the team's Excellence Award as a first-year ... appeared in ten meets in the indoor season … ran a season best 5:14.44 in the mile at Liberty League Championship (2/26) … won the mile at the West Point Tune Up (2/19) … ran a new best in the 600m with a 1:44.73 at the Utica Holiday Classic (12/12) … set a new best in the 3000m with an 11:52.97 at the Springfield College Season Opener (12/4).

Prior to Union: A 2021 graduate of Hopkinton High School … a four-year member of the indoor track and lacrosse teams and also spent two years with the cross country and soccer teams as well … earned the Coaches Award during her final indoor season … helped the Hillers to a D3 state indoor title as a junior … a National Honor Society and National Art Honor Society student.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2022First Year

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2023Sophomore

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2024Junior

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2025Senior

    Distance
    5'3"