Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Kirstin Slater returned to the Rutgers-Camden athletic program during the 2021 fall semester, running in all eight invitationals for the cross country program after sitting out the 2020-21 pandemic year. An athlete for all seasons, she owns three cross country and indoor track letters at Rutgers-Camden, while competing with the outdoor track team twice.
 
Slater helped the Scarlet Raptors set an indoor track program record in the 1,600 Sprint Medley. In the classroom, she has earned several academic honors during her first two years on campus.
 
Program records (through 2020-21 school year): Indoor Track – 1,600 Sprint Medley (4:43.41) at the Seahawk Shootout (Dec. 7, 2018) with Erica Gilmore, Tathiana Henry and Alexis Jones.
  Outdoor Track 2022: Injured for most of the spring, she returned for one late-season meet, running with the 4x400 relay team at the Lions Invitational (April 30)…The team finished fourth of four squads with her PR time of 4:39.99.
  Indoor Track 2019-20: Competed in seven different events over eight meets, establishing a PR in five events…At the Fastrack Season Opener (Dec. 6), finished 10th of 16 at 1,000 meters (3:35.05) and placed 19th of 33 in the mile with a PR of 5:52.35…Notched a PR of 1:56.20 at 600 meters (19th of 23) and ran with the sprint medley team (4:54.19, ninth of 11) at the Wagner Seahawk Shootout (Dec. 13)…Ran both the mile (fifth of nine, 6:15.00) and the 3,000-meter run (fifth of 11, a PR of 12:16.58) at the Dutchmen Invitational (Jan. 17)…Ran 5,000 meters at both the Collegeville Classic (third of six, 20:52.90) and the Frank Colden Invitational (ninth of 25, 20:24.85) on Jan. 25 and Feb. 8, respectively…Finished 23rd of 41 in the mile (6:01.18) at the Susquehanna Invitational (Feb. 15)…Captured a pair of PRs at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships (Feb. 24), finishing 12th of 15 at 5,000 meters (20:23.28) and ninth of nine with the 4x400 team (4:57.07)…At the ECAC Championships, placed sixth of seven at 5,000 meters (20:38.19) on March 6 and finished seventh of 14 in the mile (5:52.46) on March 7.
   
Outdoor Track 2019: Competed in the 1,500-meter run at six outdoor meets, while also adding one race at 800 meters…Notched a time of 5:46.66 at 1,500 meters to finish 22nd of 29 at the season-opening Stockton Invitational (March 23)…Finished 58th of 93 at 1,500 meters (5:29.41) at the Danny Curran Invitational (March 30)…Placed seventh of 14 in the 1,500-meter run (5:49.69) at the Oscar Moore Open (April 5)…Posted her PR at 800 meters (2:47.96, 28th of 49) and also finished 17th of 32 at 1,500 meters (5:32.26) at the Osprey Open (April 13)…Placed 65th of 82 at 1,500 meters with a PR of 5:29.07 at the Widener Invitational (April 20)…Closed her season at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships (May 5), placing 18th of 24 at 1,500 meters (5:39.91).
 
Indoor Track 2018-19: Competed in five meets, running the mile four times and competing at 1,000 meters, 3,000 meters and the Sprint Medley once each…Helped set the program’s record in the 1,600 Spring Medley (4:43.41) at the Seahawk Shootout (Dec. 7), while finishing third of eight…Also set her individual PR of 3:34.40 at 1,000 meters in the Seahawk Shootout, finishing ninth of 12…Started her indoor season at the TCNJ Open (Dec. 1), finishing 11th of 13 in the mile (6:06.61)…Finished 33rd of 44 in the mile (6:21.63) at the Moravian Invitational (Jan. 26) and 19th of 37 in that event (6:08.02) at the Frank Colden Invitational (Feb. 2)…Added a PR at 3,000 meters (12:20.93) to place 15th of 18 in the Frank Colden meet…Set a PR in the mile (6:02.82) to finish 13th of 17 at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships (Feb. 18). Cross Country 2018: Ran in all eight Raptor invitationals, making her debut in the season-opening Bryn Mawr Invitational (Aug. 31), when she finished third on the team and 44th of 102 overall with a 24:02.2 clocking…Set her 5K PR of 23:44.6 at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Invitational (Sept. 8), placing third on the Raptors and 51st of 112 overall…In her first collegiate 6K race, placed second on the team and 35th of 60 overall with a time of 28:04.2 at the Delaware Invitational (Sept. 15)…Finished third on the Raptors and 45th of 117 at the NJAIAW Championships (Sept. 22) with a 27:42.02 clocking…At the Paul Short Run (Sept. 29), finished 225th of 357 (27:44), placing third on the team…Beginning with the Inter-Regional Border Battle (Oct. 13), finished second on the team in her last three races…At the Inter-Regional Border Battle, set a 6K PR of 25:29.8, placing 269th of 347 overall…Finished 48th of 97 at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships (Oct. 27) in a time of 26:25.43…Placed 197th of 305 at the NCAA Atlantic Regionals (Nov. 10) in a 26:44.3 clocking.