Athlete Awards

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Student-Athletes of the Month

Kayla Williams

Kayla Williams

  • Award
    Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Student-Athletes of the Month
  • Week Of
    1/27/2020
  • Sport
    Women's Track & Field
  • Bio
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A transfer from Division II Lee, women's track & field sophomore Kayla Williams (Decatur, Ga.) came in to the program with a personal best in the 60-meters that equaled the existing program record. It would take exactly one event at the BSC Indoor Icebreaker (12/6) for her to break a record set six times by standout senior Nia Elmore (Hinesville, Ga.).
 
After notching a mark of 7.93 in the preliminaries to qualify for the semis, Williams would blaze a time of 7.68 to break Elmore's record of 7.70, coming within one one-hundredth of an NCAA Provisional mark in the process. The latter record was last set on January 20, 2019 at the Emory CrossPlex Invitational. Williams would then go on to post a time of 7.74 in the finals to place an impressive 6-of-69 in the event.
 
It would not be her only performance that surpassed a program record, however, as she covered the 200-meters in 25.47 to finish 10-of-77. This beat another Elmore mark, this one 25.61 from November 30 at the BSC Panther Indoor Icebreaker. Unlike her 60-meter performance, this one would not stay in the Laker record book though.
 
That honor would go to senior Jasmine Radford (Lawrenceville, Ga.) who finished ahead of her with a record-shattering time of 25.39, beating the previous mark by an impressive 0.22.
 


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
1/10/2017 Dantez Bennamon Men's Basketball
1/10/2017 Tierra Johnson Women's Basketball
12/10/2016 Jaumonee Byrd Men's Basketball
12/10/2016 Tierra Johnson Women's Basketball
11/7/2016 Ryan King Men's Soccer
11/7/2016 Maria Marti Bartis Women's Soccer
10/7/2016 Iain Smith Men's Soccer
10/7/2016 Jessica Charman Women's Soccer
4/28/2016 Jessica Matthews Women's Track & Field
4/28/2016 Keith Egan Men's Golf
3/31/2016 Jessica Matthews Women's Track & Field
3/31/2016 Alfonso Davis Men's Basketball
2/8/2016 Alfonso Davis Men's Basketball
2/8/2016 DaQuenna Moore Women's Basketball
1/11/2016 Dantez Bennamon Men's Basketball
1/11/2016 Andrea Benford Women's Basketball
12/27/2015 Maria Marti Bartis Women's Soccer
12/27/2015 Nathan Powell Men's Basketball
11/2/2015 Avery Shepard Men's Soccer
11/2/2015 Maia Kuhnen Women's Cross Country
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