2019-20 Women's Track and Field Roster
Biography
Honors
• NAIA All-America in outdoor track and field in 2019 (1,600-meter relay)
• USTFCCCA All-Academic in 2018-19
• All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference in cross country (2019)
• All-GCAC in outdoor track and field (2019)
• XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll in 2018 and 2019
• XULA Dean's List
• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2019-20
Briefly
• Second year at XULA
• Returning letterwinner in track and field
2020 Outdoor Track and Field (Sophomore)
• Did not compete; outdoor season was canceled in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic
2020 Indoor Track and Field (Sophomore)
• Competed in 2-of-6 meets, both times in the 1,600 relay
• Best time in the 1,600 relay was 4 minutes, 3.80 seconds in the LSU Twilight on Feb. 21, 2020 . . . Williams ran the leadoff segment, and she and Raven Riley, Darryan Horton and Ariel Ford were eight-tenths of a second from the NAIA's B-qualifying time for nationals
• Member of XULA's first women's indoor team since 2004
2019 Cross Country (Sophomore)
• First season on the cross country team
• Competed in 4-of-5 meets
• Named All-GCAC after running 5,000 meters in a career-best 23:59.6 to finish seventh and help the XULA women repeat as team champion
• Was XULA's third-fastest finisher at two meets: Lake Charles Toyota Cowboy Stampede and NAIA nationals
2019 Track and Field (Freshman)
• Ran anchor segment on 1,600 relay team that finished eighth at NAIA nationals (3:53.59) and earned All-America
• In the 1,600 relay prelims at NAIA nationals, she helped XULA set a school record of 3:48.75 — also on the anchor segment
• Helped the XULA women score their highest ever finish — 23rd place — at NAIA nationals
• Scored in three events — second place in the 1,600 relay (4:18.37), fifth in the 800 (2:44.84) and seventh in the 400 (1:00.18) — at the GCAC Championships . . . Ran second segment of the relay
• Helped XULA repeat as GCAC women's team champion
• Produced eight total top-10 finishes during this season
• Best time in the 200 was 26.21 at McNeese Spring Time Classic on March 15, 2019
• Best time in the 400 was 58.72 — her first collegiate meet — at the Southeastern Strawberry Relays on March 2, 2019
• Best time in the 800 was 2:28.86 at the William Carey Last Chance on May 10, 2019
High School
• Placed fourth in the 400 at the LHSAA Class 5A outdoor state meet as a junior (2017) and senior (2018)
• Helped Hahnville finish second at state in the 1,600 relay in 2018
• Williams won four meet MVP awards as a senior
• Regional runner-up in the 400 as a junior
• Her prep PR in the 400 was 57.13
• Three-time district champion in the 400 outdoors
• Helped the Hahnville girls win two district team championships outdoors
• Academic all-state as a senior
• Maintained a 4.0 GPA all four years
• Secretary of National Honor Society her senior year
• As a senior she was one of 10 nominees for Hahnville student of the year
Personal
• Born in Atlanta and moved to Louisiana in 2006
• ACT composite score of 27
• Entered XULA with 90 community service hours . . . She was a volunteer at the Louisiana SPCA in the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers
• Enjoys drawing and painting
Historical Player Information
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2018-19Freshman
Sprints
5'8"
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