2017-18 Women's Track and Field Roster

Kayla Quincy

  • Position Sprints
  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • High School Xavier Prep
  • Previous School Southeastern Louisiana
  • Hometown Avondale, La.
  • Major Psychology / Pre-Medical

Biography

Honors
•  XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll in 2015
•  NAIA All-America in 2016 (1,600-meter relay)
•  Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Track Athlete of the Week in 2016

Briefly
•  Third year at XULA
•  1-year letterwinner
•  Transferred after competing at a pair of NCAA Division I schools: Southeastern Louisiana and Tulane

2018 (Senior)
•  Produced NAIA B-qualifying mark of 57.33 seconds in the 400 and finished second at University of Mobile Invitational March 30
•  Helped 1,600 relay team run NAIA B-qualifying mark (3:55.26) at Louisiana Classics March 16

2017
•  Did not compete

2016 (Junior)
•  Earned NAIA All-America after helping Gold Nuggets finish eighth in 1,600 relay (3:52.43) at national meet . . . It was the Gold Nuggets' first All-America honor in an outdoor running event . . . Squad set school record (3:49.87 — since broken) during preliminaries
•  Also qualified for nationals individually in 200 and 400 but competed only in the 200 at that meet . . . 19th in preliminaries in 25.12 and did not advance
•  Fourth place in the 200 (25.05 — XULA's best time of the season) and 400 (57.32) at GCAC Championships . . . Also helped Gold Nuggets place third in 1,600 relay
•  Had team's best 400 time of the season — 57.06 — at the Louisiana Classics meet

2015 (Sophomore — SLU)
•  Best 400 time was 57.76 in a sixth-place finish April 4 in the LSU Battle on the Bayou
•  Was 11th outdoors in the 400 preliminaries of the Southland Conference Championships but did not advance to the final
•  Placed 21st in the 400 at the Southland indoor meet

2014
•  Did not compete

2013 (Freshman — Tulane)
•  Produced team's four fastest times of the season in the 400, including 55.99 at the South Alabama Invitational April 13
•  21st in 400 at Conference USA Championships
•  Anchored 1,600 relay team in sixth-place finish indoors at Conference USA Championships and season-best time of 3:45.53

Club
•  Qualified for 2011 AAU Junior Olympics in the 400

High School
•  5-time LHSAA state champion in individual events
•  Class 3A state champion in the 200 in 2010 and 2011 . . . 3A state champion in the in 2010 and 2012 . . . Indoors she was the Division II state champ in the 400 in 2012
•  District and regional champion in the 200 and 400 three straight years (2010-12)
•  Set school record in the 400
•  Helped Xavier Prep's Yellow Jackets win LHSAA Division II state championship indoors in 2012 . . . Team won district and regional championships outdoors in 2011 and 2012
•  Also competed in cross country
•  Member of National Honor Society and chosen a WWL-TV A+ Athlete

Personal
•  Grew up on the West Bank of suburban New Orleans
•  Enjoys cooking and sewing

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Junior

    5'5"
  • 2017-18Senior

    Sprints
    5'5"