2019 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Morganne Hill
- Position:
- Sprints/Hurdles
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Bakersfield, Calif.
- High School:
- Liberty
Hill Features
» Triple Threat (GoHuskies.com; May 21, 2019)
2019: Moved up the Husky top-10 lists in the 400-meter hurdles, closing out her season with the two fastest times of her career at NCAA West Prelims … set a new PR in the NCAA Prelims first round in Sacramento, running 58.14 seconds to go to No. 7 in school history … finished 16th overall in the NCAA quarterfinals, with a time of 58.60, the second-fastest of her career … finished 11th in the Pac-12 Championships in the 400m hurdles in 1:00.12 … took second in the UW-WSU Dual in 59.13 in the 400m hurdles and third in the 100m hurdles in 14.09 … sixth at the National Relay Championships in Arkansas in the hurdles with a time of 59.43 … indoors, set a 400m best of 57.17 at the Last Chance Elite Meet … 29th in the 400m at the MPSF Championships … a season-best 60m hurdles time of 8.87 at the UW Invitational.
2018: A strong comeback season as she advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals in the 400-meter hurdles and broke into the Husky top-10 list … at the NCAA West Preliminaries, she took seven-tenths of a second off her 400m hurdles PR in the first round, running 58.65 to reach the quarterfinals where she finished 24th overall … that time put her at No. 9 in school history … broke sixty seconds in the 400m hurdles for the first time at the UW-WSU Dual where she ran 59.38 to finish fourth and also took second in the 100m hurdles in a season-best 14.07 … was 11th in the 400m hurdles at the Pac-12 Championships in 1:00.03 and also was 14th in the 100m hurdles in 14.10 … third at the Ken Shannon Invite in the 100m hurdles in a wind-aided 14.05 … was eighth in the 400m hurdles at the Mt. SAC Relays in 1:00.81 … at the Pepsi Team Invitational, took fourth in the long hurdles in 1:00.95 and was second in the 100m hurdles in 14.15 … indoors, took 23rd at the MPSF Championships in the 60m hurdles in a season-best time of 8.92 seconds … named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team ... a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
2017: Competed just one time during the indoor season at the UW Invitational and redshirted the outdoor season.
2016: A promising freshman season centering on the 400-meter hurdles, running at the conference meets indoors and out … had the second-fastest time on the squad in the 400m hurdles with a 1:00.92 posted at the Beach Invitational … also ran 1:00.94 at the UW-WSU Dual Meet, finishing third … at the Pac-12 Championships, finished 13th in the 400m hurdles in 1:01.88 … was the alternate on the 4x400m relay at NCAA West Prelims … fifth in the 400m hurdles at the Pac-12 vs Big Ten Invite in Tempe in 1:01.21 and also was fifth at the Pepsi Team Invite in 1:01.27 … best 100m hurdles time of the season was 14.48 at the UW-WSU Dual for fourth … indoors, ran a season-best 60m hurdles time in the first meet, the UW Indoor Preview, going 8.75 in the final for sixth and 8.76 in the semis … ran the hurdles at the MPSF Championships, taking 16th in 8.98 … top 4x4 relay time was 3:47.75 at the UW Invitational … ran an open 400-meters in 57.77 at the UW Indoor Open.
High School and Personal: Born in Moscow, Idaho … parents are Michelle and Scott Hill … has one older brother, Westin, one older sister, Ashlyn, and one younger sister, Alexa … brother Westin played basketball at Idaho … one of the top hurdler recruits in the nation, as she ranked seventh nationally in 2015 in the 300-meter hurdles, and third among seniors … ran a 300m hurdles PR of 41.47 seconds in the California Division I state finals, finishing fourth, as five of the top-seven hurdlers in the nation were from the state … also took sixth in the 100m hurdles finals as a senior, running 13.77, which ranked 22nd nationally … won the 2015 CIF-CS Masters meet going 41.76 in the 300m hurdles, and also won the Arcadia Invite earlier in the season in 42.23 … reached the California state finals in both hurdle events both as a sophomore and a junior … capped her junior year with a fifth-place finish in the 100m hurdles and a fourth-place finish in the 300m hurdles with a then-PR of 42.06 seconds, which ranked 22nd nationally in 2014 … also ran on the 4x400m relay squad that was third in the state finals her junior year … ran a just slightly wind-aided time of 13.66 in the 100m hurdles in 2014 … also ran some strong cross country during her career, finishing 47th at the 2013 CIF state meet as a junior … finished 11th at the CIF Central Section Championship as a senior in 2014 … graduated with a 3.6 GPA and interested in studying pre-health sciences, architectural design, or broadcasting.
Major Meets
2016 MPSF - 16th, 60m Hurdles
2016 Pac-12 - 13th, 400m Hurdles
2018 MPSF - 23rd, 60m Hurdles
2018 Pac-12 - 14th, 100m Hurdles | 11th, 400m Hurdles
2018 NCAA Prelims - 24th, 400m Hurdles
2019 MPSF - 29th, 400m
2019 Pac-12 - 11th, 400m Hurdles
2019 NCAA Prelims - 16th, 400m Hurdles
Outdoor Bests
100m Hurdles.......14.05w / 14.07
400m Hurdles.......58.14
Indoor Bests
400m.......57.17
60m Hurdles.......8.75
Academic Honors
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2019 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
2018 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2018 Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention
