2020-21 Indoor Track Roster

Joey Gardner
Joey Gardner

Nikyia Wooten

  • Position Middle Distance / Long Distance
  • Class Junior
  • High School Hallandale H.S.
  • Hometown Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Biography

Personal Records
Mark Date Event
Cross Country
5K 19:51.2 10/26/19 MEAC Cross Country Championships
6K 24:59.6 11/15/19 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional
Indoor Track
Mile 5:58.17 1/11/19 HBCU Battle
3,000 11:18.74 1/26/19 Liberty Kickoff 
5,000 19:53.56 1/26/19 Liberty Kickoff 
Outdoor Track
800 2:29.79 3/23/19 Ram Invite
1,500 4:59.49 4/6/19 Towson Invitational
Mile 5:33.35 3/16/19 Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational
5,000 19:29.95 3/23/19 Ram Invite

2021 Outdoor Track & Field (Juniot): Season lost due to COVID 19 Pandemic ... Made MEAC Commissioners' All-Academic Team ...

2020-21 Indoor Track & Field (Junior): Season lost due to COVID 19 Pandemic ... Made MEAC Commissioners' All-Academic Team ...

2020 Cross Country (Junior): Season lost due to COVID-19 Pandemic ...
 
2020 Outdoor Track & Field (Sophomore): Season lost due to COVID 19 Pandemic ... 

2019-20 Indoor Track & Field (Sophomore): Earned MEAC All-Academic honors for the season ... Added MEAC Commissioner's All-Academic Team for the Year ... 

2019 Cross Country (Sophomore): Earned MEAC All-Academic honors for the season ... Added MEAC Commissioner's All-Academic Team for the Year ... Helped the women's team to a second-place overall performance at the MEAC Cross Country Championship ...

2018 Outdoor Track & Field (Freshman): Won Coach's Award at year-end Harry's Awards ... Qualified for MEAC Championships with a PR of 19:29.95 at the VCU Invitational and Combined Event ... 

2018 Cross Country (Freshman): Seventh at Delaware State Pre-Conference Run ... 10th at DSU Alumni XC Run ... 

Personal: Born on March 14, 2000 … Daughter of Nicosha Wooten … Criminal Justice major at Maryland Eastern Shore … Competed as a distance runner for Hallandale High School … Focuses on her pre meet warm up before running … Best personal sports moment was going to states in 2016 after being unseeded … Lists Dawn Spann and Steven Oliver as influences because they believed in her when she didn’t believe in herself … Best non-athletic accomplishment is becoming the first person in her immediate family to attend a university … Wants to open her own business after graduation … Best advice is “You have to take a risk. Never settle.” … Favorite book is The Hunger Games … Favorite movie is Fate of the Furious ...

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

  • 2019-20Sophomore

  • 2020-21Junior

    Middle Distance / Long Distance