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2020-21 Women's Track and Field Roster

Kyri Jackson

Kyri Jackson

  • Position:
    Multi/Hurdles
  • Height:
    5-7
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Highschool:
    Niagara Wheatfield Senior
  • Hometown:
    Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Summary

Biography

Official Collegiate Results
 

Career Highlights:

  • 4x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
  • 2x Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2019, 2020)
  • 2x Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2019, 2020)
  • Indoor All-Horizon League First Team - 60-Meter Hurdles (2020)
  • Outdoor All-Horizon League Second Team - 4x400 (2019)
  • Outdoor All-Horizon League First Team - Heptathlon (2018)
  • Indoor All-Horizon League Second Team - Pentathlon (2018)
  • Outdoor All-Horizon League First Team - 4x100 (2017)
  • Outdoor All-Horizon League Second Team - Heptathlon (2017)
  • Detroit Mercy President's Award (2020)

Career Best:
60: 7.67 at 2020 Silverston Invitational                          
100: 12.39 at 2018 San Francisco State Distance Carnival
200: 24.81 at 2020 Horizon League Indoor Championships
300: 42.73 at 2019 Can-Am International 
800: 2:33.24 at 2018 Horizon League Indoor Championships (Pentathlon)
60H: 8.61 at 2020 Horizon League Indoor Championships
100H: at 2019 Horizon League Outdoor Championships
High Jump: 1.55m at 2019 YSU Mid-Major Invite
Long Jump: 5.72m at 2020 Horizon League Indoor Championships
Javelin: 32.41m at 2018 Pacesetter Sports Invitational
Shotput: 11.32 at 2018 Horizon League Outdoor Championships (Heptathlon)
Pentathlon: 3299 at 2018 Horizon League Indoor Championships
Heptathlon: 4429 at 2018 Horizon League Outdoor Championships

2020 Indoor:
  • Selected the team's MVP
  • Won gold in the Horizon League Indoor Championship in the 60-meter hurdles, while placing third in the long jump, fifth in the 200-meters, seventh in the 60M and ran on the sixth-place 4x400-meter relay totaling 25 of the Titans 42.5 points in the postseason
  • Set school records in her hurdles win in 8.61 as well as the and 200mwith a time of 24.81 and was just .02 shy of the 60M record with a dash of 7.67
  • Won the 200m and was third in the long jump at the Silverston Invitational
  • Placed second in the 60mH and on the 4x400 and was third in the long jump at the YSU Mid-Major Invite

2019 Indoor:
  • Took third in the 200m with a time of 25.73 at the Blue and Gold Invitational season opener
  • A member of the 4x400m relay team that placed sixth at the Blue and Gold Invitational
  • Ran a new PR in the 200m dash in a time of 24.9 at the Silverston Invitational
  • Ran a PR in the 60m dash at the Silverston Invitational with a time of 7.67

2018 Outdoor: 
  • Claimed gold in the heptathlon at the Horizon League Championships 
  • Placed fifth place in the 100-meter hurdles at the HL championships
  • Placed third in the heptathlon at the Winthrop Invitational
  • #10 all-time Titan time for 100m with a mark of 12.39 at Stanford Invitational
  • Took home a first-place finish in the 100m at the Golden Grizzly Invitational
  • Earned third in the javelin at the Golden Grizzly Invitational
  • Finished fourth in the javelin at the Pacesetter Invitational while also moving up to the #8 all-time Titan mark with her toss of 32.4m
  • A member of 4x100m relay team that claimed fourth place at the HL championships

2018 Indoor: 
  • Placed fourth in the 60-meter hurdles at the HL championships
  • Ran on the 4x400-meter relay quartet that placed fourth at the HL championships
  • Placed 13th in the 60m hurdles at the Blue & Gold Invitational with a time of 9.09
  • Claimed second place in 60m hurdles and fifth place in the long jump at the Jack Skoog Invitational
  • Took second place in 60m hurdles at the Fort Wayne Duals
  • Placed third in the 60m and fifth in the 60m hurdles at the GVSU Mike Lints Alumni Open
  • Placed second in the pentathlon while winning the 60m hurdles and earning fifth in the 200-meters at the YSU Invitational
  • Set a PR in the long jump portion of the pentathlon at YSU Invitational
  • A member of 4x400-meter relay team that took second place at the Silverston Invitational

High School: 
  • Lettered in track and field and basketball
  • In track, she was a league champion from 2011-16, a sectional competitor from 2012-16 and a state competitor from 2011-16
  • Set three track and field school records with an 11.9 100-meter dash, 25.4 200-meter run and in the 4x100-meter relay
  • Placed 10th in the New York State Track and Field meet in 2015 and eighth in 2016
  • The 100-meter champion in the Section 6 Championship in 2015 and also placed second in the 200m
  • Was second at the 2016 Section 6 Championships
  • In basketball, named Team MVP during the 2013-16 seasons and was a sectional competitor in 2012, in addition to being named All-Around First Team from 2013-16

Personal: 
  • Daughter of Gary and Cassandra Jackson
  • Full name is Kyri Lag'Jay Monique Jackson
  • Has two siblings, Shamone and Le'Gary, a freshman on the 2019-20 team
  • A Nursing major

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Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    Sprints
    5'7"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Sprints
    5'7"
  • 2018-19Junior

    Multi/Hurdles
    5'7"
  • 2019-20Senior

    Multi/Hurdles
    5'7"
  • 2020-21Graduate Student

    Multi/Hurdles
    5'7"