2025-26 Women's Track and Field Roster
Biography
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.
