2025-26 Women's Track & Field Roster

Kate Borton

  • Academic Year Freshman
  • Position Sprints
  • Hometown Auckland, New Zealand
  • Highschool St. Cuthberts College

Biography

Joins the Villanova sprint group in 2025-26 after competing at a high level during her scholastic career in New Zealand ... Top individual event is the 400 meters ... Has a wealth of experience both individually and in the relays.
 
 
PERSONAL BESTS
60 Meters 8.18 High School
100 Meters 12.62 High School
200 Meters 25.16 High School
400 Meters 55.40 High School
800 Meters 2:12.63 High School
 
 
BEFORE VILLANOVA

St. Cuthberts College: Competed on the track & field, netball and orienteering teams ... In 2024 she was the New Zealand senior girls' 400 meter champion ... Ran on 4x400 meter relay teams which set the New Zealand U18, U19 and U20 age group records ... Named the 2024 College Sport Auckland Track Athlete of the Year ... Won a silver medal that year in the New Zealand Secondary Schools championships ... Member of New Zealand Secondary Schools championship teams in 2022 and 2024 ... In 2023 was a New Zealand Secondary Schools 4x100 meter relay and 4x400 relay champion in addition to earning bronze in the 400 meters ... Winner of the College Sport Auckland Orienteer of the Year and All Rounder of the Year awards in 2023 ... Won multiple NZSS orienteering titles as both a sprint champion and a long champion ... Member of the 2023 NZSS Orienteering Team ... Named an Academic Scholar in 2023 and won an Economics Scholarship in 2024. 

Personal: Born 6/17/06 ... One of three chilrden of Louise and Paul Borton ... Has two siblings: Nathan and Harry ... Chose to attend Villanova for the amazing opportunities it will bring her ... Plans to major in Biochemistry.