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2024-25 Women's Track & Field Roster

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Dylan Weaver
Brenna Barkley
Brenna Barkley

Christina Palmer

  • Height 5-9
  • Events Throws
  • Hometown Carlos, Minn.
  • High School Alexandria Area
  • Prev School Queens
  • Indoor Yr. Graduate Student
  • Outdoor Yr. Gr.

Biography

TFRRS Career Results Page (CMU)
TFRRS Career Results Page (Queens)

Overall Career Honors


CMU
  • 3x Second Team All-RMAC
    • 2024 Outdoor - Discus
    • 2025 Indoor - Shot Put
    • 2025 Outdoor - Shot Put
  • CMU School Record Holder - Shot Put
    • Indoor (13.34m/43-9.25) & Outdoor (13.79m/45-3)
  • RMAC Field Athlete of the Week (Apr. 10, 2025)
  • 2x USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2024 & 2025)
Queens
  • Second Team All-South Atlantic Conference (2022 - Discus)
  • USTFCCCA All-Region (Southeast Region) (Discus - 2022)
2025 Outdoor (5th Year @ CMU): Competed in five meets, including the RMAC Championships… Contested all four throwing events at the conference meet… Scored seven team points thanks to a fourth place finish in the shot put and a seventh place effort in the discus… Also placed 15th in the hammer throw and 21st in the javelin throw… Broke her own school-record with a mark of 13.79 meters (45-3) in the shot put… Earned Second Team All-RMAC accolades… Was ranked fifth on the RMAC’s performance list… Had a season-best discus throw effort of 46.33 meters (152-0) to win that event at the Maverick Invitational while also garnering RMAC Field Athlete of the Week honors… That mark ranked her third on the RMAC’s season-long performance list and put her 40th on the national list…Recorded a throw of 43.08 meters (141-4) at the RMAC Championships… Also set a season-best of 47.12 meters (154-7) in the hammer throw and a career-best of 34.53 meters (113-3) in the javelin throw during the Maverick Invitational… Ranks ninth in program history with the javelin effort… Was ranked 13th in the RMAC in the hammer throw and 14th in the javelin… Earned a spot on the RMAC Academic Honor Roll... Selected to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team for the second straight year.

2024-25 Indoor (5th Year @ CMU): Threw in four meets, including the RMAC Championships… Qualified for the finals in both the shot put and weigh throw, earning Second Team All-RMAC honors in the shot put… Finished fifth at the conference meet… Had broke her own school-record with a mark of 13.34 meters (43-9.25) to win at the Mountaineer Open… Also scored an additional team point at the RMAC Championships with an eighth place finish in the weight throw… Had a mark of 15.23 meters (49-11.75) to do so, which was just one centimeter off her season-best of 15.24 meters (50-0) at the Ichabod Invitational… Was ranked fourth in the shot put and 11th in the weight throw on the RMAC’s season-long performers list… Earned a spot on the RMAC Academic Honor Roll.

2024 Outdoor (Graduate @ CMU): Competed in all eight regular season meets, including the RMAC Championships… Contested the shot put, discus throw and hammer throw at each of the first four before focusing on the discus throw at the late-season last chance meets… Set a season-best and NCAA provisional qualifying throw of 46.76 meters (153-5) at the Air Force Twilight… Ranks second in program history with that mark, just a single centimeter off teammate Heather Yackey’s school-record… Also finished fourth on the RMAC performance list and 27th on the national qualification list… Earned Second Team All-RMAC honors with a fourth place finish and throw of 46.21 meters (151-7) at the conference meet… Won the discus throw five times throughout the season… Scored two additional team points at the conference meet in the shot put, placing seventh with a throw of 13.06 meters (42-10.25)… Had turned in a former school-record throw of 13.72 meters (45-0.25) at the Maverick Invite & Multi… Was ranked sixth on the RMAC’s season-long performance list… Had a season-best hammer throw of 47.15 meters (154-8) at the Maverick Invite #2 before placing 13th at the conference meet with a mark of 46.33 meters (152-0).

2023-24 Indoor (Redshirt Junior @CMU): Threw at five meets, including the RMAC Championships… Placed 11th in the shot put and 14th in the weight throw at the conference meet… Won the shot put and broke the school-record at her first meet as a Maverick with a season-best throw of 13.25 meters (43-5.75) at the Mountaineer Open… Took second at her next three meets… Had a season-best weight throw of 15.82 meters (51-11) in the weight throw at the Western Colorado Open, also placing second… Ranks third in program history with that effort… Finished seventh on the RMAC season-long performance list in the shot put… Was tenth in the weight throw.

2023 Outdoor (Junior @ Queens): Competed in five meets… Won the shot put and discus throw at the LR Bears Open… Had a career-best discus throw of 45.43 meters (149-0) in the discus to do so… Set a career-best shot put mark of 13.74 meters (45-1) in her final Charlotte Invitational, her final meet as a Royal… Had a season-best mark of 41.25 meters (135-4) in the hammer throw at the LR Bears Open.

2022-23 Indoor (Redshirt Sophomore @ Queens): Competed in five meets during the Royals’ first season at the Division I level… Finished seventh in the shot put and 15th in the weight throw at the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships… Had a season-best mark of 12.89 meters (42-3.5) in the shot put at that meet… Also had a mark of 13.40 meters (43-11.75), just off her career-best of 13.45 meters (44-1.5), which came at the Carolina Challenge.

2022 Outdoor (Sophomore @ Queens): Competed in six meets, including the South Atlantic Conference Championships… Placed second in the discus throw and seventh in both the shot put and hammer throws… Earned Second Team All-SAC honors in the discus throw… Was also a USTFCCCA All-Southeast Region award winner thanks to her season-best mark of 41.10 meters (134-10) at the Charlotte Invitational… Also took 15th in the javelin throw… Had a season-best mark of 43.48 meters (142-8) in the hammer throw at the Electric City Invitational… Also set a shot put season best of 12.10 meters (39-8.5) at that meet, recording three top-four finishes in it… Set a career-best of 30.82 meters (101-1) in the javelin throw at the LR Outdoor Invite.

2021-22 Indoor (Redshirt Freshman @ Queens): Competed in five meets, including the South Atlantic Conference Championships… Finished tenth in the shot put and 11th in the weight throw… Set a season-best of 12.80 meters (42-0) in the weight throw to do so… Had a season-best of 11.70 meters (38-4.75) in the shot put at the Visit Winston-Salem College Kick-off.

2020-21 Indoor (Freshman @ Queens): Competed in three meets during the COVID abbreviated season, posting season-best marks of 11.27 meters (36-11.75) in the shot put and 9.18 meters (30-1.5) in the weight throw at the Winter Classic, hosted by VMI in Lexington, Virginia.

2021 Outdoor (Freshman @ Queens): Competed in five meets, including the South Atlantic Conference Championships… Placed fourth in the discus throw, ninth in the shot put and 12th in the hammer throw at that meet… Set a season-best hammer throw mark of 38.14 meters (125-1) at the conference meet… Had a season-best shot put mark of 12.61 meters (41-4.5) to finish third at the Hub-City Invitational… Had a season-best discus throw of 40.42 meters (132-7) at the Mount Olive First Chance & Multi.

Prep: 2020 graduate of Alexandria High School… Set high school PR marks of 125-10 (discus) and 38-6 ½ (shot put) as a junior in 2019 before her senior season was canceled… Finished third at the Central Lakes Conference Championships with that mark… Won the event at the State True Team Championships… Finished third at the Section 8AA Finals.

Personal: Is pursuing a doctorate of physical therapy at CMU… Says, “I have always wanted to help people and form connections with others. Physical therapy is a career that is able to do both and after shadowing a few different physical therapists, I knew that this is what I wanted to do as well. I want to be able to help people like the therapists that I shadowed and help them improve function in their every day life.”

Why I Chose CMU: “There are three reasons that I chose CMU. The first one was to be able to continue my education in the DPT program.  I also love being out in nature and the surround area is full of many opportunities, and also being able to be on the track team.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Redshirt Junior

    Throws
    5'9"
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    Throws
    5'9"