2019-20 Women's Track and Field Roster

Jerek Wolcott
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics

Justyce Riggs

  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • High School Choctawhatchee
  • Hometown Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
  • Major Business Management

Biography

Honors
•  NAIA All-America in outdoor track and field in 2019 (400-meter relay)
•  XULA Dean's List seven times
•  All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference in outdoor track and field in 2018
•  Six-time GCAC Track Performer of the Week
•  USTFCCCA All-Academic in 2018-19
•  Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar honorable mention in 2017-18
•  GCAC Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2017-18 and 2019-20
•  XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019

Briefly
•  Four-year letterwinner at XULA
•  Two-year team captain
•  Member of teams that won a collective four GCAC team championships: three in outdoor track and field (2017, 2018, 2019) and one in cross country (2019)
•  Received XULA bachelor's degree in May 2020 and will attend Indiana University's Master of Science in Accounting program beginning in the fall of 2020
•  Holds XULA women's track and field record for most GCAC Track Performer of the Week awards in one season: six in 2018
•  Finalist for XULA Female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2019-20

2020 Outdoor Track and Field (Senior)
•  Did not compete; outdoor season was canceled in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 Indoor Track and Field (Senior)
•  Competed in 4-of-6 meets, all in the 60-meter dash
•  Best time in the 60 was 8.04 seconds in the Houston G5 and Mid-Major Invitational on Jan. 31, 2020
•  Member of XULA's first women's indoor team since 2004

2019 Cross Country (Senior)
•  First and only 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 (Junior)
•  Ran leadoff segment on 400 relay team that placed sixth at NAIA nationals and earned All-America honors . . . Teammates were Ariel Ford, Alexis Milton and Shalysa Wray
•  Helped the XULA women score their highest ever finish — 23rd place — at NAIA nationals
•  Ran second segment on 400 relay that set school record of 46.23 and produced an NAIA A-qualifying mark at season-opening Southeastern Strawberry Relays (March 2, 2019) . . . Teammates were Alexis Milton, Raven Davis and Shalysa Wray
•  Placed sixth in the 100 at the GCAC Championships and helped XULA repeat as team champion

2018 Track and Field (Sophomore)
•  All-GCAC in two events — the 400 relay and the 100 — after second-place finishes the league meet . . . Also placed fourth in the 200
•  Helped XULA repeat as GCAC team champion
•  Ran her best collegiate time in the 100 — 12.04 — in a fifth-place finish at the Southeastern Strawberry Relays (April 13, 2018)
•  Ran third segment on 400-meter relay team that produced A-qualifying times for NAIA National Championships in each of the first two meets

2017 Track and Field (Freshman)
•  Fifth place in long jump (season-best 5.06 meters/16 feet, 7 1/4 inches) and eighth in 100-meter dash (12.66 seconds) at GCAC Championships
•  Helped Gold Nuggets win GCAC team championship
•  Competed in the preliminaries of the 400 relay at NAIA nationals
•  Best sprint times were 12.64 in the 100 and 26.86 in the 200

Club
•  Competed unattached for two years at AAU and USATF events
•  Qualified for AAU Junior Olympics in 2015 after regional finishes of third in the long jump and fifth in the 100
•  PRs in 100 (12.1, won gold medal) and 200 (25.6) for U.S. team in Down Under Sports meet in Australia . . . Also helped 400 relay win gold

High School
•  4-year track and basketball standout
•  District champion in long jump and regional finalist as a senior (2016) . . . District champion in 400 relay as a freshman and junior
•  Helped 400 relay win regionals her freshman year and qualify for state
•  Member of three state runner-up and three district champion basketball teams . . . Started final two seasons at shooting guard and had high game of 21 points . . . Won team awards for best defender as a sophomore and junior and for inspiration as a senior
•  Worked 63 community service hours, most of them with ambassador group Link Crew

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Sprints, Jumps
    5'6"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Sprints, Jumps
    5'6"
  • 2018-19Junior

    Sprints, Jumps
    5'6"
  • 2019-20Senior

    5'6"