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COLLEGIATE PERSONAL BESTS: 60mH – 8.48, 100mH – 13.70, 200m – 25.35
AWARDS: Academic All-Big Ten (2021)
AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Big Ten Outdoor Championships (5/14-16/21): Set a personal best of 13.70 in the 100h prelims.
Big Ten Indoor Championships (5/25-27/21): Competed in the 60h.
Big Ten Indoor Championships (2/28-29/20): Matched a personal-best mark in 60mH (8.57).
2021 Outdoor
Jesse Owens Invite (4/30-5/1): Set a season best in the 100h with a 13.68w.
2021 Indoor
Penn State Tri-Meet (2/6): Won the 60h with a personal best time of 8.48 and placed fourth in the 200m dash.
2020 Outdoor
Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 Indoor
Season: Set a personal-best mark in 60mH at Big Ten Indoor Championships...Placed in top 10 three times in 60mH event.
Sykes & Sabock Challenge (2/8): Set new personal-best mark in 60mH (8.57).
2019 Outdoor
Season: Won two 100mH events...Posted five top-10 finishes...Set a collegiate-best time in the 100m hurdles (15.20)
Bison Outdoor Classic (4/13-14): Ran collegiate-best in 100m hurdles (15.20). Bucknell Team Challenge (4/20): Won 100mH (15.46). Jim Thorpe (5/3): Won the 100mH (15:05w).
2019 Indoor
Season: Set two personal-bests in 200m and 60m hurdles...Won 60mH at Penn State Tune-Up.
Penn State National (1/25-26): Posted two personal-best times in 200m (25.90) and 60m hurdles (8.68). Penn State Tune-Up (2/16): Won 60mH.
BEFORE PENN STATE
High School PRs: 60mH - 8.91, 100mH - 14.36, 300mH - 44.54
Earned four varsity letters in track & field...Won the 100mh and 4x100m league championship in 2018...Finished as league 100mH and 300mH as runner-up (2017)...Holds Sunshine League record in the 100mh...Member of school record shuttle hurdle relay team (2018)...Earned 2018 PrepCalTrack “Elite Marks” in 100mH, 300m, and as a member of 4x100m and shuttle hurdle relays...Finished 2018 indoor season ranked third in California in 60mH by MileSplitCA...Named Varsity Women’s 2018 MVP...Won Sunshine League Championship (2017-18)...Placed second at
California Interscholastic Federation Division 3 (2018)...Qualified for the New Balance National Indoor and Outdoor Championships (2018)...Finished sixth in the 100mH and the 4x100m relay at the Mt. SAC Relays (2018)...Earned three USATF Youth All-American honors in long jump and hurdles...Participated at USATF Junior Olympic National Championships (2010-12, ’14, ’17).. and participated in AAU Junior Olympic National Championships (2011, ’17).
PERSONAL
Full name is Ekaterina Nicole Hupalo...Daughter of Rodney and Christine Hupalo...Has one sister, Alexa...Father, Rodney competed in track & field at Cal Lutheran University...Majoring in health and human development...Chose Penn State “To be a part of a school that takes a great amount of pride in improving the community and offers excellent academic opportunities”... Born on March 21, 2000, in Valencia, California.