Katelyn Lehner started competing in track and field when she was 12 and her rise to the podium didn’t take long. She got her first taste of competition in the P4A track meets.

When she moved on to high school, her track and field success took off. During her four years of high school, she took home gold in each event she was entered in, both in the Prince Albert High School City Championships and the North Central District Championships. Her success during those years was in the 100 meter, 200 meter, high jump, long jump and 80 meter hurdles.

With her success in the city and district meets, Katelyn earned the right to represent the district at the SHSAA Provincial Track and Field Championships. She earned gold her first year in all four of her events and was named Aggregate Midget Female Athlete. In her grade 11 year, Katelyn won gold in five events at provincials as well as being named the Aggregate Senior Female Athlete at the meet. Her success continued in grade 12 with another four gold medals and the title of Aggregate Senior Female Athlete. The events she competed in at provincials were the 100 meter, 200 meter, long jump, hurdles and the 4×100 meter relay.

Katelyn’s success during her high school years also included numerous medals in more than a dozen meets including the Saskatchewan Summer Games. That success did not go unnoticed as she also took home the hardware in the way of awards including the 2012 Saskatchewan Sport Female Athlete of the year and the Prince Albert Kinsmen Female Athlete of the year.

During this time, she excelled at western Canadian events including the Midget Track and Field Championships and the Western Canada games. But she didn’t stop there. Katelyn also competed on the national and international stage including the Canada Summer Games and the 2012 Olympic trials. Her travels also took her to Hershey, Pennsylvania in 2009 to compete in the Hershey Track and Field games, earning a fifth-place finish in the 200 meters. At the Pan American Junior Championships in Columbia, Katelyn finished sixth in the heptathlon.

From high school she would move on to a bigger stage as a member of the University of Calgary Dinos and University of Saskatchewan Huskies track and field teams. During her time with the Dinos, she would earn one gold and two bronze in the pentathlon and a silver in the 4×100 meter relay at the Canadian Western (Can West) University Championships. As a member of the Huskies, at the Can West championships, she would take home medals in the 60 meter hurdles, long jump and 4×200 meter relay.

Katelyn also had success at the CIS national championships during her university career earning bronze and silver medals in the 60-meter hurdles and long jump, competing against the top university athletes in the country. She capped off her career in 2020 when she was invited to compete in the Saskatoon Knights of Columbus invitational meet in the 60-meter hurdles where she would finish sixth in a field of world-class athletes.

Katelyn Lehner had a remarkable journey through local, provincial, national, and international competitions attaining success at every level.