One of the fastest runners in school history, Alicia Collier enters her first season as an assistant coach with the Cal U cross country and track & field programs.
Collier was a member of three different league champion relays while a standout sprinter for the Vulcans from 2016-21. She earned an individual conference title in the 100-meter dash at the 2019 PSAC Outdoor Championships and finished her career as an 11-time All-PSAC honoree. As a junior, Collier set the outdoor school record in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.76 seconds.
In 2018, Collier claimed her first league crown while a member of the distance medley relay and also was member of the distance medley relay that set the school record with a time of 11 minutes, 45.76 seconds. The following year, she became the first women’s sprinter at Cal U to win a conference title since 2012. Collier won the 100 meters after placing third in the preliminaries and also received All-PSAC laurels in the 200-meter dash.
Collier earned All-PSAC status in three events at the 2020 PSAC indoor Championships while helping the Vulcans finish fourth at the event for the third time in six years. She was a member of the league champion 4x400-meter relay and also finished as runner-up to teammate Divonne Franklin in the 200 meters and placed third overall in the 60-meter dash with a personal-best time of 7.64 seconds in the finals.
Last spring, Collier helped Cal U record its highest finish at the PSAC Outdoor Championship by finishing third in the teams standings with a total of 88 points, the most in program history. She was a member of the 4x100-meter relay that won the race by nearly four-tenths of a second to mark the first women’s outdoor relay league title for Cal U since 2016. Individually, Collier earned USTFCCCA all-region accolades in both the 100 and 200 meters during the 2021 campaign.
Collier earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cal U in 2020. She recently completed her master’s degree from Cal U in exercise science and health promotion with dual concentrations in performance enhancement and injury prevention and sport psychology in 2021.
