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2021-22 Track and Field Roster

Taiza Alexander

  • Position Sprints, Long Jump, Relays
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Berea Community HS
  • Hometown Berea, Ky.

Biography

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Personal-Best 60-Meter Time:
  8.00 (2/27/22 at MVC Indoor Championships)
Personal-Best 100-Meter Time:  12.75 (5/14-16/21 at MVC Outdoor Championships)
Personal-Best 200-Meter Time:  27.15 (2/14/20 at Hoosier Hills Open – Indoor)
Personal-Best Long Jump Mark:  5.53 meters | 18’1.75” (5/14-16/21 at MVC Outdoor Championships)
 
Indoor Track School Record-Holder In The 60-Meters (8.00 - 2022)
Indoor Track School Record-Holder In The Long Jump (5.38 meters | 17’8” – 2021)
Outdoor Track School Record-Holder In The Long Jump (5.53 meters | 18’1.75” – 2021)
Holds Part of the Outdoor Track School Record In The 4x100-Meter Relay (49.86 – 2019)

All PRs/Records Updated Through 5/10/2022

 
Spring 2021 (Outdoor):
  • Set the school record in the long jump at the MVC Outdoor Championships (5/14-16/21) with a mark of 5.53 meters (18’1.75”) to place eighth overall in the conference.
  • Also posted the team’s fastest 100-meter time of the year at the MVC Outdoor Championships (5/14-16/21) with a time of 12.75 – the second-fastest 100-meter time by athlete in school history.
  • Jumped over 5.50 meters (18’0.5”) at the Kentucky Wesleyan Twilight Invitational (4/2/21) to win the long jump competition.
  • Also won the long jump competition (5.40 meters | 17’8.75”) and the 100-meter dash (13.28) at the Bill Smith Open (3/27/21).
  • Placed fourth in the long jump at the SIU Bill Cornell Invite (3/19-20/21) with a distance of 5.41 meters (17’9”) despite jumping into a headwind of 2.1 m/s.
  • Finished in the top five in four of the six meets in which she competed in the long jump.
Winter 2021 (Indoor):
  • Set both the 60-meter and long jump indoor track school records for UE as a junior.
  • Ran the fastest 60-meter time on record for UE at the MVC Indoor Championships (2/26-28/21) with a time of 8.01.
  • Broke her own indoor long jump school record for the third-straight year with a distance of 5.38 meters (17’8”) at the John Gartland Invitational (1/23/21) to place third overall.
  • Also ran times of 8.12 in the 60-meters and 28.36 in the 200-meters at the John Gartland Invitational to place in the top 10 of both events.
Spring 2020 (Outdoor):
  • Outdoor season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Winter 2020 (Indoor):
  • Improved on her own indoor long jump school record with a distance of 5.15 meters (16’10.75”) at the EIU John Craft Invitational (1/18/20).
  • Also jumped over five meters in the long jump with a distance of 5.07 meters (16’7.75”) at the MVC Indoor Championships to place 12th in the conference.
  • Posted her personal-best 200-meter time at the 2020 Hoosier Hills Open (2/14/20) with a time of 27.15 – the fastest 200-meter time of the season for UE and second-fastest time by athlete in UE indoor history.
  • Ran UE’s second-fastest 60-meter time of the indoor season with a mark of 8.06 in the prelims at the John Gartland Invitational (1/24-25/20).
Spring 2019 (Outdoor):
  • Broke the UE school record in the long jump with a mark of 5.24 meters (17’2.25”) at the Lenny Lyles-Clark Wood Invitational in Louisville (4/26-27/19).
  • Ran the anchor leg of the 4x100-meter relay team which set the UE school record with a time of 49.86 at the Lenny Lyles-Clark Wood Invitiational.
  • Finished 15th in the MVC Outdoor Championships (5/10-12/19) in the long jump with a mark of 5.01 meters (16’5.25”).
  • Won the long jump competition in her first collegiate outdoor meet with a mark of 4.72 meters (15’6”) at the Stan Lyons Invitational hosted by Butler (3/16/19).
Winter 2019 (Indoor):
  • Established the indoor standard for the long jump at UE with a season-best mark of 5.03 meters (16’6”) at the EIU Friday Night Special (2/15/19).
  • Placed 15th in the long jump in her first MVC Indoor Championship with a distance of 4.96 meters (16’3.25”).
  • Finished third in the long jump in her first collegiate meet with a distance of 4.87 meters (15’11.75”) at the Indianapolis Season Opener (12/1/18).
  • Also ran a season-best time of 8.18 in the 60-meter dash at the Indianapolis Season Opener.
Personal:
  • A double major in both Business Management and Marketing at UE.
  • A member of the Black Student Union.
  • Lettered six years in track and field, three years in soccer, and three years in cheerleading at Berea Community HS in Kentucky.
  • Two-time Kentucky State Champion in the long jump as a junior (2017) and senior (2018).

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Junior

  • 2021-22Senior

    Sprints, Long Jump, Relays
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