Career Bests
2021-22
Indoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors in the 60-meter hurdles … placed third in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.02 seconds … clocked a season best of 7.81 seconds in the 60 hurdles at the Hawkeye Invitational to open the season … named Summit League Track Athlete of the Week (1/18) following the performance … won the 60 hurdles at the Jim Emmerich Alumni Meet … clocked a personal best 6.86 seconds in the 60 meters at the Nebraska Adidas Classic … moved to ninth on the Coyote Top 10 in the 60 meters with that clocking of 6.86 seconds … finished in the top-10 of all five races during the season … named USTFCCCA All-Academic.
Outdoor Track & Field
Competed at three meets during the spring … won the 110-meter hurdles at the South Dakota Challenge in a season-best time of 13.62 seconds … named Summit League Track Athlete of the Week (4/26) for the performance … posted the second-best preliminary time in the 110 hurdles at the Drake Relays.
2020-21
Indoor Track & Field
All-American in the 60-meter hurdles … Summit League Indoor Track Athlete of the Year … Summit League Champion in the 60-meter hurdles … placed 10th at the NCAA Championships in the 60 hurdles with a time of 7.79 seconds … clocked 7.99 seconds to successfully defend his Summit League title in the 60 hurdles … clocked a season-best of 7.77 seconds in the preliminaries of the Summit meet … broke the DakotaDome record at Dakota Realty Invitational, winning the 60 hurdles in 7.90 seconds … garnered the Summit League Track Athlete of the Week on Jan. 26 following the meet … captured the hurdles at the Division I Challenge in a then-league leading 7.79 seconds and named the Summit League Track Athlete of the Week on Feb. 16 … won the 60 hurdles at the Dakota Quad Classic in 7.84 seconds and was named Summit League Track Athlete of the Week on Feb. 9 … swept the 60 hurdles and the 4x400-meter relay at the SDSU Holiday Invitational … took first in the 60 hurdles at the SDSU Last Chance meet … three-time Summit League Athlete of the Week during the season … captured seven event titles and tallied 10 top-10 finishes during the season ... named USTFCCCA All-Academic.
Outdoor Track & Field
Clocked a personal best of 13.54 seconds to finish runner-up in the 110-meter hurdles at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays … the time broke South Dakota’s school record and set a state of South Dakota collegiate record for the 110-meter hurdles … named Summit League Track Athlete of the Week on March 30 following the Texas Relays … missed the remainder of the season due to injury, but the time ranked 13th in the country at the conclusion of the spring … made the Summit League honor roll.
2019-20
Indoor Track & Field
Summit League Track Athlete of the Year … All-American in the 60-meter hurdles … South Dakota’s Male Rookie of the Year … qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 60-meter hurdles in the 16th position in the field; the meet was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic … Summit League Champion in the 60-meter hurdles … clocked a blistering season best of 7.74 seconds in the 60 hurdles to break the Summit League Championships meet record and the South Dakota school record, both previously held by his coach Teivaskie Lewin … garnered Summit League Athlete of the Week (2/18) honors following a win at the Iowa State Classic where he initially tied the South Dakota school record of 7.77 seconds … also captured Summit League Athlete of the Week (2/4) following a victory in the 60-meter hurdles at the Adidas Classic in 7.79 seconds … helped the Coyotes rank No. 24 in the final USTFCCCA poll prior to the season’s cancellation … victorious in the 60 hurdles at the Jim Emmerich Invitational in 7.82 seconds … also ran on the Coyotes’ fourth-place 4x400-meter relay at the Summit League Championships which clocked 3:22.83 … finished runner-up in the 60 hurdles at the Nebraska Tune-Up in 7.90 seconds … notched four event wins during the season and tallied 11 top-10 finishes … named USTFCCCA All-Academic … made the Summit League honor roll.
Outdoor Track & Field
Season cancelled by NCAA and The Summit League due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Prep
A four-time Western Championships 110-meter hurdle champion ... also took gold in the 400-meter hurdles in 2017 ... placed second in the 110 hurdles at the Jamaican National Championships, going on to represent the black, gold and green at the 2017 World Youth Championships in Nairobi, Kenya ... also raced for Team Jamaica at the Carifta Games in 2018 ... holds personal bests of 13.59 seconds for the 110 hurdles and 53.18 seconds for the 400 hurdles.
Personal
Son of Stacian Sommers ... kinesiology and sport management major with an emphasis in sport management.
