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2023-24 Women's Track and Field Roster

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Aliyah Adams

  • Position Hurdles / Jumps
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Wentzville, Mo.

Biography

2023-24: NCAA West Region qualifier in the women’s triple Jump. Adams was named both the Ohio Valley Conference Indoor and Outdoor Female of the Championships (Meet MVP). Adams scored 28 points in the indoor championships, the most of any competitor. Adams won the long jump, triple jump, and placed second in the 60m hurdles, breaking the 60m hurdle school record from 1983 in the process at the OVC Outdoor Meet. In the outdoor season, Adams continued her dominance, earning Female Athlete of the Championships with a win in the triple jump, a second in the long jump, a third in the 100 hurdles, and running a leg on the fourth-place 4x400 relay team. Adams finished second in the women’s long jump and third in the women’s triple jump at the Drake Relays.
Adams put herself all over the WIU record book, placing in the top 10 all time in the indoor 60 hurdles (first), indoor long jump (first), indoor triple jump (third), indoor 200 (second), outdoor long jump (fourth), outdoor 100 hurdles (sixth) and outdoor triple jump (second).
 
2023-24 Bests
Indoor
60
: 7.77 (1/20/24 Larry Wieczorek Invitational)
200: 25.06 (2/22/24 OVC Indoor Championships)
60 hurdles: 8.61 (2/22/24 (OVC Indoor Championships)
4x400: 3:51.71 (12/1/23 PNW Classic)
Long jump: 20’0.25” (12/9/23 Jimmy Grant Invite)
Triple jump: 40’7.5” (2/22/24 OVC Indoor Championships)
 
Outdoor
100 Hurdles
: 13.99 (OVC Outdoor Championships)
200: 24.82 (5/11/24 OVC Outdoor Championships)
Long jump: 19’10.25” (4/27/24 Drake Relays)
Triple jump: 41’8’’ (4/13/24 Cougar Classic)
4x100: 46.58 (4/13/24 Cougar Classic)
4x400: 3:50.60 (5/11 24 OVC Outdoor Championships)


2022-23 COLLEGE BESTS
200: 25.33 (5/12/2023 / Summit League Outdoor Championships)
60h: 8.85 (2/26/2023 / Summit League Indoor Champioship)
400h: 1:06.16 (4/8/203 / SIUC Cornell Invite)
Long jump: 5.97m (19’7’’) (4/8/203 / SIUC Cornell Invite)
Triple jump: 12.12m (39’9.25”) (4/28/2023 / Janvrin Invite)

2023: Won the triple jump at the Janvrin Invite with a season-best 12.12m… Ran a leg on the second-place 4x400 relay team at the Drake Relays… Finished second at the Augustana Meet of Champions in the long jump… At the Cougar Classic, won the long jump and finished second in the triple jump… At the SIUC Cornell Invite, had a season best long jump effort of 5.97m to finish first; finished third in the 400 at the Cornell with a season-best 1:06.16… INDOOR: Finished third at the GVSU Big Meet in the triple jump… Was second in both the long jump and triple jump at the Hawkeye Classic… Finished second in the long jump, third in the triple jump and fourth in the 4x400 at the Jimmy Grant Invite… Ran a leg on the first place 4x400 at the Coughlan Invite.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

    Hurdles / Jumps
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Hurdles / Jumps