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2025 Women's Track & Field Roster

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Michelle Cates

  • Position Hurdles/Sprints
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Douglasville, Ga.
  • High School South Paulding
  • Major Mass Communication

Biography

Honors & Awards:
- 2023 CCS 100m Hurdles Champion
- 2023 CCS 400m Hurdles Champion
- 2024 CCS 400m Hurdles Champion
- All-CCS Team (2023)
  - First Team 100m Hurdles
  - First Team 400m Hurdles
  - Third Team 4x100m Relay
- All-CCS Team (2024)
  - First Team 400m Hurdles
  - Second Team 100m Hurdles
  - Third Team 4x400m Relay

2024 Indoor:
- Competed in five meets
- Set a career-best in the 60m hurdles at the USC Indoor Open (10.33)

2024 Outdoor:
- Competed in eight meets
- Won the 400m hurdles with a career-best at the Collegiate Conference of the South Championship (1:08.57)
- Placed 2nd in the 100m hurdles at the Collegiate Conference of the South Championship (16.28)
- Helped the team to a 3rd place finish in the 4x400m Relay at the Collegiate Conference of the South Championship (4:24.35)

2023 Indoor:
- Competed in four meets

2023 Outdoor:
- Competed in six meets 
- Set a career-best and won the 400m hurdles at the CCS Championships 
(1:09.17)
- Won the 100m hurdles at the CCS Championships (16.42)
- Helped Piedmont place third in the 4x100 relay at the CCS Championship (52.03)

Prep & Personal:
- Native of Douglasville, Georgia
- Gradauted from South Paulding High School in 2022
- Majoring in mass communication

Historical Player Information

  • 2023Freshman

    5'3"
  • 2024Sophomore

    Hurdles/Sprints
    5'3"
  • 2025Junior

    Hurdles/Sprints
    5'3"