2019-20 Women's Track and Field Roster
Biography
Honors
• All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference twice in cross country (2016, 2017)
• All-GCAC twice in track and field (2017, 2018)
• GCAC Runner of the Week nine times in cross country
• All-Louisiana cross country in 2019 and honorable mention in 2016
Briefly
• Fourth year at XULA
• Only woman to win three GCAC individual championships in cross country (2016, 2018, 2019)
• Holds GCAC women's cross country record for most Runner of the Week awards in a career: 13
• Member of teams that won a collective seven GCAC team championships:
three in outdoor track and field (2017, 2018, 2019) and four in cross country (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
• Won seven GCAC events in outdoor track — six individual, one relay — during career,
including three consecutive 5,000 titles (2017, 2018, 2019)
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 2-of-5 meets
• Ran the mile in 6 minutes, 1.59 seconds at the Houston G5 and Mid-Major Invitational
on Jan. 31, 2020
• Produced time of 12:28.49 in the 3,000 at the Bulldog Open in Birmingham, Ala.,
on Feb. 15, 2020
• Member of XULA's first women's indoor team since 2004
2019 Cross Country (Senior)
• Repeated as GCAC individual champion — winning by nearly two minutes —
and was all-conference for the fourth straight year
• Led XULA to its 13th consecutive GCAC women's team title and an automatic bid to NAIA nationals
• GCAC Runner of the Week twice
• Third place out of 67 women at Loyola's Allstate Sugar Bowl Festival
• First XULA woman since 2014 to make All-Louisiana in this sport
• Best season times were 19:26.0 (Sugar Bowl) and 19:44.5 (GCAC) for 5,000 meters
2019 Track and Field (Junior)
• Was XULA's No. 2 scorer at GCAC Championships with 30 1/2 points . . . Won the 5,000 and 10,000
and anchored the 3,200 relay team to a victory . . . Also placed second in the 1,500
• Helped XULA win its third consecutive GCAC team championship
• Produced top-10 finishes in the 5,000 in back-to-back weeks in meets at Southern Miss and McNeese
2018 Cross Country (Junior)
• Pulled away in final 300 yards from teammate and defending champion Maliya Vaughan
to win her second GCAC individual championship by nearly four seconds
• Led XULA to the GCAC women's team championship
• Helped XULA earned automatic bid to NAIA national meet
2018 Track and Field (Sophomore)
• Only Gold Nugget to win two events at GCAC Championships
• Repeated as GCAC champion in the 5,000 and won the league's inaugural 10K
• Also placed fourth at GCAC meet in the 1,500 and helped
the 3,200 relay finish second
• Scored 26 total points at GCAC meet, tying for second
on the team, and helped Gold Nuggets repeat as the league's team champion
2017 Cross Country (Sophomore)
• GCAC individual runner-up and helped Gold Nuggets win team title
• Finished 318th at NAIA National Championships with 5K time of 21:35
• Won GCAC Runner of the Week in each of the first four weeks of the season
• Ran 4,000 meters at Mississippi College Season Opener in 16:35.68 — No. 3 on the Gold Nuggets'
all-time list at that distance
• Produced third-fastest 2-mile run in XULA history when she won Big Easy Opener
in 12:51.42.
2017 Track and Field (Freshman)
• Gold Nuggets' No. 3 scorer — 22 points — at the GCAC
Championships, where XULA won the team title
• GCAC champion in the 1,500 and 5,000 and helped XULA
finish second in the 3,200 relay
2016 Cross Country (Freshman)
• GCAC individual champion and led Gold Nuggets to team title
• Best times of 18:07.5 (school record) for 5K, 25:42.23 for 6K
• Set 5K school record in second collegiate meet — Allstate Sugar Bowl Festival at
Metairie, La.
• Tied GCAC women's season record by being named Runner of the Week five times
• 292nd at NAIA National Championships . . . Ran 5K in 20:43.28
Club
• National champion st 2014 USATF Junior Olympics, winning the
3,000 in the 15-16 age group
• 10 years of AAU competition for the Houston Visions
High School
• 4-time qualifier for UIL state meet in cross country . . . Led
Ridge Point's Panthers to 16th-place team finish in Class 5A her senior year (2015) . . .
Three times was among top 40 runners at state, with highest finish 23rd as a sophomore (2013)
• Region III-5A individual champion in cross country as a senior (2015)
• Best 5K time was 18:08.72, a school record she set while winning the 2014 district meet
• Sixth place in 1,600 at 5A state outdoor track meet as a senior (2016)
Personal
• Left-handed
• Both parents are school principals
• Niece of Gerald McNeil, a Pro Bowl punt returner for the Cleveland Browns in 1987
Historical Player Information
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2016-17Freshman
Distance
5'8"
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2017-18Sophomore
Distance
5'8"
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2018-19Junior
Distance
5'8"
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