2026-27 Track & Field, Cross Country Roster
Katelyn Adel
- Position:
- Multi
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Zurich, Switzerland
- High School:
- Allgemeine Berufsschule Zurich
Accolades
- 2025 USTFCCCA First Team All-American - Heptathlon
- 2025 SEC Outdoor Silver Medalist - Heptathlon
- 2025 Second Team All-SEC - Heptathlon
- 2025 SEC Women's Freshman of the Week - April 1
- UA Heptathlon school-record holder (5,834 points)
- 2025 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll member
2025-26
IndoorÂ
- Finished 2nd in the pentathlon at the 2026 SEC Indoor Track and Field Championship with a career best score of 4312 points, a career best Shot-Put (13.63m) and a career best 60m Hurdles (8.62), while also placing 5th in the 800m, 12th in the Long Jump and 3rd in the High Jump on Feb 26-28Â
- Placed 2nd in the High Jump finals and 10th in the Shot Put finals at the Tiger Paw Invitational on February 13-14
- Finished 8th in the 60m Hurdles finals (9.07), 8th in the High Jump finals (1.70m), 9th in the shot-put finals (12.47m) at the Indiana Invitational on Jan 16-17Â
- Placed 1st in Pentathlon at the Orange and purple Invite, placing 1st in the 60H, 1st in Shot Put, 2nd in High jump, 2nd in Long Jump and 4th in 800-meter on January 22-23Â
2024-25
OutdoorÂ
- Earned First Team All-America honors after her eighth-place finish in the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships
- Captured silver during her first-career outdoor conference meet
- Awarded SEC Women's Freshman of the Week honors (April 1) following her first-place finish at the Texas Relays
- Became the first UA student-athlete to earn All-America honors (first team) in the heptathlon since Kaylon Eppinger in 2012 (honorable mention)
- Bettered her UA-career-heptathlon point-total in consecutive meets and set the school record at the national meetÂ
- Texas Relays - 1st place - 5,587 points
- SEC Championships - 2nd place - 5,619 points
- NCAA Championships - 8th place - 5,834 points
- Set new PRs in all seven events throughout her rookie season
- 100m hurdles - 14.12 - NCAA Championships
- High jump - 1.77m (5-9.75) - Texas Relays
- Shot put - 12.92m (42-4.75) - SEC Championships
- 200m - 24.65 - NCAA Championships
- Long jump - 6.18m (20-3.50) - NCAA Championships
- Javelin - 36.57m (119-11) - NCAA Championships
- 800m - 2:16.85Â - NCAA Championships
- Competed for the Crimson Tide in eight total meets during the outdoor campaign
IndoorÂ
- Represented Alabama in the pentathlon at the SEC Championships, setting a PR in the 60m hurdles (8.70)
- Captured second-(high jump, 1.66m | 5-5.25)-and-third-place (long jump, 5.85m | 19-2.50) finishes in her UA career-debut at the Samford Invite (Jan. 17-18)
- Competed in five total meets for the Crimson Tide during the indoor campaign
Prep Highlights
- Personal bests: 6,092 points in the heptathlon; 4,328 points in the pentathlon
- 2024 Combined Events champion
- 2023 seventh-place finisher in the heptathlon at the European U23 Championships
Personal
- Born Oct. 23, 2002
- Daughter of Suzanne and Andries Adel
- Has two siblings, Isabelle and Victoria
- Majoring in kinesiology
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