UND Roster
2020-21 Cross Country
Roster
Cassie Keyes
Distance
Class
Sophomore
Hometown
Ridgewood, NJ
High School
Ridgewood
PREP AND PERSONAL
- Graduated from Ridgewood High School in spring 2019
- Competed in cross country, track and field, and basketball
- Was an 11-time varsity letter-winner at Ridgewood
- Eight-time State Sectional Champion
- Was just the 20th girl in Bergen County (NJ) history to break five minutes in the 1,600 meters
- 2017 Cross Country All-Suburban Freshman of the Year
- 2018 1,600 Meters league champion
- 2018 1,600 Meters Bergen County Champion
- 2018 All-North Jersey Cross Country Second Team
- 2019 All-North Jersey 1,600 Meters First Team
- Two-time Penn Relays competitor
- Three-time Arcadia Invitational competitor
- Team Captain
- Member of Maroon Mentors Club
- Served as peer counselor
- High Honor Roll honoree
- Daughter of Karen (‘91) and Kevin (‘90) Keyes
- Has a set of twin siblings, Johnny and Katie
- Mother Karen played basketball for Irish head coach Muffet McGraw
- Father Kevin played tennis for the Irish
- Comes from a big family of Notre Dame graduates, including her parents; grandfather John Keyes (‘58); uncles Joseph Nelligan (‘86) and Jonathan Kronstein (‘90), cousins Andrew Nelligan (‘11), Matthew Nelligan (‘13), Tristan Mitchell (‘18), Liam Nelligan (‘18) and Tess Nelligan (‘19)
- Uncle Joseph Nelligan played tennis for the Irish and cousin Liam Nelligan played on the Irish men’s basketball team under Mike Brey
- Intends to major in psychology