Katie Easton

Class:
Senior
Height:
5-9
Hometown:
Melbourne, Australia
High School:
Methodist Ladies College
Major:
Public Health, Business Administration (minor)

At Michigan
• Team Captain (2024)
• Three-time Pocock/CRCA All-American (second team, 2023-25)
• Member of two Big Ten Championship Teams (2023, '24)
• Two-time Big Ten Champion (2023, '24, 1V8)
• Three-time All-Big Ten (first team, 2023-25)
• Won a gold medal for Australia (4+) at the 2023 U23 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• Represented Team Australia (8+) at the 2024 U23 World Championships in St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada
• Two-time CSC Academic All-District (2024, '25)
• Two-time CRCA Scholar-Athlete (2023-25)
• Two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2023-25)
• Two-time Academic All-Big Ten (2023-25)
• Two-time member of the Big Ten Boat of the Week (April 11, 2023; April 2, 2024) following the 1V8's performance at the Big Ten Invitational and Big Ten-ACC Duals
• Organized the team's Robert Connor Dawes Fundraiser in both 2022 and 2023
• Enrolled in School of Public Health

Senior (2024-25)
• Helped the 1V8 (two) place 15th in Championship Eight event at the Head Of The Charles Regatta (Oct. 20)
• Rowed the stroke seat of the 1V8 as it finished second (6:27.17) against Syracuse and Penn in the morning session of the Big Ten/Ivy Dust Up (March 22)
• Timed 6:14.6 with the 1V8 from the seventh seat against Yale during the afternoon session at the Big Ten/Ivy Dust Up
• From the fourth seat of 1V8, timed 6:46.4 against Oklahoma and 7:04.8 against Virginia at the Big Ten/ACC Challenge (March 29)
• Placed second (6:19.13) with the 1V8 in the stroke seat at Texas (April 12)
• Finished first (6:19.93) in the stroke seat of the 1V8 in the morning on day one (April 18) of the Big Ten Invitational
• From the stroke seat, placed fourth (6:30.70) in the 1V8 on day two (April 19) of the Big Ten Invitational
• On the first day of the Big Ten Championship (May 17), helped the 1V8 advance to the grand finals in second place (6:30.17) from the sixth seat
• Earned bronze in 6:10.09 from the sixth seat of the 1V8 to help the team finish third overall on finals day of the Big Ten Championship (May 18)
• From the sixth seat, helped the 1V8 advance to petite finals and time 6:20.14 to finish 12th as a boat and 11th as a team at the NCAA Championship (June 1)

Junior (2023-24)
• Team Captain
• Named to the inaugural CRCA Athletes to Watch List ahead of the spring season
• Rowed in stroke seat of the 1V8 as it timed 6:53.5 over Virginia in the morning and 6:40.4 to beat Duke in the afternoon at the Big Ten-ACC Challenge (March 30)
• Rowed in stroke seat of the 1V8 as it timed 6:30.8 against Michigan State (April 6)
• Helped the 1V8 finish second against Texas (April 13) in 6:08.1 (+5.2) from stroke seat
• Finished second (6:23.720) and first (6:29.927) from stroke seat of the 1V8 on the first day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 19)
• Placed second (6:24.693) with the 1V8 in stroke seat on the second day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 20)
• Won a gold medal in 6:17.859 from the stroke seat of the 1V8 to help the team win the Big Ten Championship (May 19)
• Rowed in the fourth seat of the 1V8 as it placed third in the Petite Final (6:20.834) at the NCAA Championship (May 31-June 2), ninth overall, to help the team finish seventh

Sophomore (2022-23)
• Named the team's Rower of the Year
• From the 1V8's fifth seat, timed 7:02.7 against Duke (March 31) and 6:44.07 against Virginia (April 1) at the ACC-Big Ten Double Dual
• On the first day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 7), placed second from the seventh seat of the 1V8 in 6:23.920 behind Stanford and over SMU, Indiana; won the afternoon race against Duke, Iowa, and UCLA in 6:21.374
• On the second day of racing at the Big Ten Invitational (April 8), helped the 1V8 finish third in 6:14.527 from the seventh seat, ahead of Ohio State and behind Stanford and Brown
• Member of the Big Ten Boat of the Week (April 11) following the 1V8's performance at the Big Ten Invitational
• Rowed in the seventh seat of the 1V8 as it timed 6:21.922 against Texas (April 15)
• On Senior Day against Louisville (April 30), helped the 1V8 to an 18-second win from the fifth seat
• Won gold from the seventh seat of the 1V8 (6:21.292) to help the team win the Big Ten Championship (May 14)
• From the seventh seat, rowed with the 1V8 to finish ninth overall (third, Petite Final) with a time of 6:33.818 at the NCAA Championship (May 26-28) to help the team place 11th

Freshman (2021-22)
• Made her U-M debut in the seventh seat of the 2V8 in a scrimmage against Indiana (March 25)
• From the 2V8's second seat, helped time 7:07.2 against Virginia at the ACC-Big Ten Challenge (April 2)
• Helped the 2V8 time 7:14.7 against Duke from the second seat at the ACC-Big Ten Challenge (April 2)
• Rowed the 2V8's second seat, and timed 6:38,49 against Texas (April 9)
• Rowed in the fourth seat of the 2V8 on the first day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 15), placing second in the morning to Virginia in 6:37.957 (-.456) and second to Brown in the afternoon in 6:46.249
• Placed second to Stanford with the 2V8 (6:21.081) in the fourth seat on the second day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 16)
• On Senior Day against Louisville (May 1), rowed the 1V8 to a win from the seventh seat with a time of 6:33.6
• From the seventh seat, helped the 1V8 to a silver medal at the Big Ten Championship (May 15) in a time of 6:14.466
• Seventh seat of the 10th-place 1V8 (fourth, Petite Final) at the NCAA Championships (May 29), which timed 6:26.210 to help the team finish 10th

Prep
• Graduated from Methodist Ladies College in Melbourne, Australia
• Academic distinctions in mathematics and geography; school prefect and House Captain
• MLC Sports Achiever and Oars Women award-winner
• Rowed with Melbourne University Boat Club
• Part of Australia's sixth place-finishing JW4+ at the 2019 Junior World Championships in Tokyo
• Rowed with the first place 8+ at the Victoria State Championships and Head of the School Girls regatta
• Won gold at the School Girl 8+ National Championships
• Competed with the basketball, cross-country, netball and Australian football teams at MLC
• Also played club and representative basketball

Personal
• Parents Sharon and Jonathan Easton
• Has one older brother, William