Kayla Cooper Named Most Outstanding Athlete of 2025 ECC Indoor T&F Championships

Washington, DC- The University of the District of Columbia's women's Indoor Track and Field Junior, Kayla Cooper was named the 2025 ECC Indoor Track and Field Championships Most Outstanding Athlete as voted on by the league's head coaches and announced today.

Cooper took home three gold medals at the ECC Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship on Sunday, boasting PRs in the 60m, 200m, and long jump, and went on to earn bronze as the second leg of the third-place 4x400m relay. The UDC junior opened the championship meet with a 60m prelims time of 7.92 and an event-winning 7.67 in the final; that mark ranks second in the ECC and third in the NCAA East Region and missed the NCAA Provisional Mark by just .04 seconds. Cooper then made her way over to the long jump, where she posted an NCAA Provisional Mark of 5.73m; this event-winning mark tops the ECC, ranks third in the NCAA East Region, and ranks 42nd across all of NCAA Division II. In the 200m, Cooper clocked an event-winning 25.25, which tops the ECC and ranks fourth in the NCAA East Region. The ECC Female Athlete of the Meet totaled 30 individual points in addition to the six points from the relay to lead the Firebirds to a third-place team finish (100 points). Click Here for Full ECC release.