2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster
Biography
ATHLETIC HONORS:
Center Parc Credit Union Student Athlete of the Week: 2/2/26
ACADEMIC HONORS:
Dean's List- Fall 2025
2025-26: Competed in eight meets total this indoor and outdoor season... Finished second in the 200-meter while setting personal records in the 200-meter and 400-meter after running a 23.57 and 54.21 at the Georgia Tech Invitational (Apr. 17-18)... Claimed first place in the 100-meter with a time of 11.85 and the 200-meter with a time of 23.93 during the Emory Dooley Elite (Apr. 4)... Placed third overall in the 200-meter after her time of 23.78 at the Don McGarey Invitational (Mar. 27-28)... Recorded the second fastest time in the 400-meter with a time of 54.45 and sixth as a member of the 4x400 relay team at the Sun Belt Indoor T&F Championships (Feb. 23-24)... Set a personal records in the 60-meter after running a 7.59 at the University of South Alabama Jaguar Invite (Feb. 1)... Opened the indoor season with a personal-best 39.72 300-meter at the UAB Blazer Invitational (Jan. 9).
2021-24 (AT DILLARD): NAIA ALL-AMERICAN... 9x Dillard university record holder... 200-meter national runner up... 400-meter national runner up... 4x GCAC/HBCUAC MVP... 16x GCAC/HBCUAC individual champion... 8x GCAC/HBCUAC Team champion... 20x GCAC/HBCUAC All-Conference... 8x NAIA Academic All American... 2025 indoor NAIA champion of character award... 2x national runner up (400m and 200m)... Multi-Winner of HBCUAC and GCAC athlete of the Week... HBCUAC 2025 Track Athlete Pre Season of the Year... 4x undefeated cross country all conference... HBCU Made Excellence Track Athlete of the Year 2024... HBCU Sports Award Sprinter of the Year Finalist... 2× South Region Athlete of the Year Finalist... National Runner-Up in NAIA Championships... NAIA Champion of Character Award 2025... Freshman of the Year 2022... XC and Track Team Captain (2023–2024)
HIGH SCHOOL: Top 5 state runner at Hahnville High School... Record holder in the 200-meter and the 4x100 relays... Participated on a team that won district four consecutive years... Honors student who participated in Beta Club and student council... Honors Theatre Student (thespian club)... Student of the Year finalist... Honors Choir student.
PERSONAL: Born Feb. 13, 2003 to parents Kevin and Shantrell Byrd... Relative of LaRon Byrd, who played for the Carolina Panthers...Comes to GSU as a graduate student from Dillard University, where she earned her bachelors in film and minored in business administration.
