University of South Dakota Athletics

Career Bests

2022-23
Cross Country
Placed 23rd at the Summit League Championships with a season-best time of 21:23.7 for 6,000 meters … missed the season opener, but finished among USD’s top seven at the remaining five meets and in the scoring five for the final four meets of the fall … crossed the finish line in 101st at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a time of 21:48.3 … placed 12th at the Platte River Rumble with a clocking of 21:44.1 … made the Summit League honor roll.
 
Indoor Track & Field
Garnered all-Summit League honors in the 800 meters and mile … placed third in both the 800 meters and the mile at the Summit League Championships … clocked 2:13.98 for 800 meters and 4:56.42 for the mile … member of the Coyotes’ Summit League Championship title-winning team … won the 800 meters at the Nebraska Tune-Up in a season-best time of 2:11.99 … clocked a personal best mile time of 4:46.05 at the Husky Classic … moved to second in South Dakota program history in the mile (4:46.05) … moved to 10th in South Dakota program history in the 800 meters (2:11.99) … swept the 1,000 meters and mile at the Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational … tallied seven top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Placed fifth in the 1,500 meters at the Summit League Championships … posted a time of 4:32.67 in the race … notched a season-best time of 4:31.56 for 1,500 meters at the Drake Relays … finished runner-up at The Monday Meet in the 800 meters with a time of 2:14.08 … clocked 4:32.03 for 1,500 meters at the Raleigh Relays … tallied four top-10 finishes during the spring … made the Summit League honor roll.

2021-22
Cross Country
Led the Coyotes at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 59th-place finish and a 6,000-meter time of 21:45.96 … placed 40th at the Summit League Championships in 23:24.14 … finished among the Coyotes’ scoring five at six of seven meets during the season … was the Coyotes’ top finisher at four meets during the fall, including the NCAA Midwest Regional … picked up a pair of Summit weekly honors during the season… won the Briar Cliff Invitational with a season-best clocking of 17:39.22 for 5,000 meters … it marked the fifth-fastest time by a Summit runner at the distance this fall … named the Summit Athlete of the Week (10/5) after the win … posted a season-best 6,000-meter time of 21:30.8 for 20th place at the Bradley Pink Classic … that time ranked seventh in the Summit for the distance … paced the Yotes with a 23rd-place finish individually at Nebraska’s Woody Greeno Invitational in 18:11.9 … named the Summit Athlete of the Week (9/21) following the performance at Nebraska … also led the Coyotes at Minnesota’s Roy Griak Invitational with a time of 22:46.0 … made the Summit League honor roll.

Indoor Track & Field
Placed fifth in the mile and sixth in the 3,000 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season-best 4:53.68 for the mile at the Summit meet and crossed the finish line in a season-best 9:50.32 for the 3,000 meters … moved to eighth on the Coyote Top 10 in the mile with that clocking of 4:53.68 … won the mile at the Nebraska Tune-Up in 4:56.03 … finished runner-up in the 5,000 meters at the USD Alumni Meet in 18:11.41 … tallied six top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminaries in the 1,500 meters … placed eighth in the 800 meters and eighth in the 1,500 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season best of 2:08.25 in the 800 meters in the Summit preliminaries to qualify for the finals … that time moved her to third on the Coyote Top 10 in the 800 meters …finished runner-up in the 1,500 meters at the Drake Relays with a season-best time of 4:24.35 … won the 5,000 meters at the South Dakota Challenge in a season-best time of 17:26.59 … took first in the 1,500 meters at the Beach Invitational … moved to third on the Coyote Top 10 in the 1,500 meters with a clocking of 4:24.35 … won the 800 meters at the USD Twilight in 2:12.34 … tallied 12 top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll.

2020-21
Cross Country
Fall cross country season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Indoor Track & Field
Recorded a season-best 3,000-meter time of 10:34.22 for third place at the SDSU Last Chance meet … clocked 5:13.26 for the mile at the SDSU Holiday Invitational … notched four top-10 finishes.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Finished ninth in the 10,000 meters at the Summit League Championships in a time of 38:22.98 … won the 5,000 meters at the Sioux City Relays in a season-best time of 17:56.20 ... ran on USD’s sixth-place 4x800-meter relay at the Drake Relays, clocking 9:11.04 for the fifth-fastest relay time in school history … captured the 800 meters at the USD Twilight in 2:20.40 … ran the 1600-meter leg of the Coyotes’ ninth-place distance medley relay at the Drake Relays, recording a time of 12:08.67 for the fifth-best time in USD history … took third in the 5,000 meters at the Wildcat Classic … tallied nine top-10 finishes during the season.

2019-20
Cross Country
Competed in one meet during the season … finished 55th at the NDSU Bison Open with a time of 16:31.1 for 4,000 meters.

Indoor Track & Field
Recorded a season-best 800-meter time of 2:27.96 at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … finished sixth in the 600 meters at the Jim Emmerich Invitational … posted a season-best time of 1:41.32 for ninth place in the 600 meters at the Adidas Classic … tallied three top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Season cancelled by NCAA and The Summit League due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Prep
A two-time South Dakota Class A Cross Country champion ... captured first title as a freshman in 2015 and followed it up with a second title as a senior ... named the 2015-16 South Dakota Gatorade Runner of the Year following her freshman campaign ... a two-time All-American and has placed in seven events at the South Dakota Class A Track and Field Championships ... a member of the National Honor Society.

Personal
Daughter of Ron and Amy Byers ... secondary education major.