Meridith Kisting

Position:
Player
Height:
5-11
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Loves Park, Ill.

2015-16: Graduate transfer who made the most of lone year with the Blue Devils, beginning with the 2V8 before moving up to the V8 for the remainder of the season … began the spring with the 2V8 at the Carolina Cup as the boat won with a time of 6:37.6 … with the 2V8 for the Pac-12 Challenge as the boat finished second against UCLA and Stanford with times of 6:42.5 and 7:19.2 … at the Virginia Dual, with the 2V8 as it took second in 7:05.9 … helped the Blue Devils tie for first overall with No. 14 Indiana and No. 17 Notre Dame at the Dale England Cup as the V8 placed third in two races, clocking times of 6:53.1 and 6:44.9 … ended the regular season at No. 9 Princeton as the V8 took second in 7:03.3 … a member of the V8 for the ACC Championship as the boat placed second in a year-best 6:20.444 mark in helping Duke to a second-place overall finish, its best at the event since 2006 … V8 entered the event as the No. 5 seed and outrowed the competition to come in second, with a photo finish ahead of Syracuse … during the program’s first NCAA Championships appearance, with the V8 that placed 18th overall, finishing the C Final in 6:31.650 … crew also placed second in the C/D Semifinals (6:32.862) … during the fall was a member of the 2V8 for the Princeton Chase with the boat coming in 29th overall (15:59.382) … with the 4V4 at the Chase, placed 20th with a time of 18:39.145 … ended the fall with the 2V8 and 5V4 at the Rivanna Romp, helping the eights place 12th in 14:07.6 and fours 20th in 16:16.2.

Prior to Duke: Rowed four years for the Illinois Women's Rowing Club ... squad won the American Collegiate Rowing Association Novice 4+ National Champion in 2012 ... named the team's 2012 Women’s Rowing Athlete of the Year ... an American Collegiate Rowing Association Second Team All-America in 2014 and 2015 ... also selected to the American Collegiate Rowing Association All-Great Lakes Region squads in 2014 and 2015 ... served three years as the club president ... at Harlem High School, was a four-year letterwinner in swimming, earning All-Northern Illinois Conference-10 honors as a sophomore and honorable mention recognition as a freshman, junior and senior.

Personal: Born August 23, 1993 … daughter of Mary and David Kisting … has one younger sister, Adrienne ... graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor of science in 2015 ... majored in biochemistry and earned distinction in her curriculum ... is currently enrolled in the cell and molecular biology program at Duke.