2018-19 Women's Track and Field Roster
Biography
Honors
• XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll in 2018 and 2019
• XULA Dean's List four times
• Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2019-20
Briefly
• Second year at XULA
• Returning letterwinner in track and field
• Member of XULA Athletics pep band
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)
• Did not compete in any meets
2019 Cross Country (Sophomore)
• First season on the cross country team
• Did not compete in any meets
• Member of team that won GCAC team championship and qualified for NAIA nationals
2019 Track and Field (Freshman)
• Scored in two events — seventh place in the triple jump (9.77 meters/32 feet, three-quarters of an inch)
and eighth place in the long jump (4.56 meters/14 feet, 11 1/2 inches) — at the GCAC Championships
• Helped XULA repeat as GCAC women's team champion
• Produced four total top-10 finishes during this season
• Triple jump best was 10.80 meters/35 feet, 5 1/4 inches at McNeese Spring Time Classic
• Long jump best was 4.75 meters/15 feet, 7 inches at Southern Miss Invitational
High School
• Competed on the track and basketball varsity teams four seasons apiece at
John Burroughs High School in St. Louis
• Also a member of the cheer team her final three years
• Class 3A state champion outdoors in the long jump and triple jump her senior year (2018)
• Best marks were 5.48 meters/17 feet, 11 3/4 inches in the long jump (2018 state meet) and
11.20 meters/36 feet, 9 inches in the triple jump (2016 sectionals)
• Helped the John Burroughs Bombers win Class 3A state track championships
outdoors her freshman and senior seasons
• In basketball she started as a senior and led her league in steals
• Team captain her final two track seasons and her senior year in basketball
Personal
• Her XULA minor is French
• Interested in becoming a dermatologist
• Worked 50 community service hours her first year at XULA through MAX (Mobilization at Xavier),
Girl Scouts, New Orleans Pelicans game day volunteer and in XULA's Saturday science program through the physics department
• Has played percussion instruments since fourth grade . . . Skilled on the marimba
• An uncle, Justin Smith, attended XULA
