Completed Event: Track & Field at Bob Davidson Team Challenge on March 20, 2026 , , 4th of 12
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at Bob Davidson Team Challenge
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Bria Byrd
- Year:
- Freshman
- Position:
- Jumps/Sprints
- Hometown:
- Norfolk, Va.
- High School:
- Maury
- Major:
- Justice Studies
TFRRS
Career Highlights:
Top-10 Program Marks (at conclusion of 2025-26 season):
Personal Records:
Outdoor Track & Field
1:01.95 in the 400H (Kehoe Twilight Meet, 5/1/26)
6.30m (20-8) in the LJ (Virginia Challenge, 4/17-4/18/26)
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Indoor Track & Field
25.51 in the 200m (ECAC Championship, 2/7-2/8/26)
40.75 in the 300m (Colonel Bev Read Opener, 12/6/25)
6.09m (19-11.75) in the LJ (Colonel Bev Read Opener, 12/6/25)
2025-26:
Outdoor Track & Field
High School:
Personal:
Career Highlights:
- 2026 NCAA East First Round (19th - Long Jump)
Top-10 Program Marks (at conclusion of 2025-26 season):
- JMU No. 2: Indoor LJ - 6.30m (20-8)
- JMU No. 2: Indoor LJ - 6.09m (19-11.75)
- JMU No. 6: 400H - 1:01.95
Personal Records:
Outdoor Track & Field
1:01.95 in the 400H (Kehoe Twilight Meet, 5/1/26)
6.30m (20-8) in the LJ (Virginia Challenge, 4/17-4/18/26)
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Indoor Track & Field
25.51 in the 200m (ECAC Championship, 2/7-2/8/26)
40.75 in the 300m (Colonel Bev Read Opener, 12/6/25)
6.09m (19-11.75) in the LJ (Colonel Bev Read Opener, 12/6/25)
2025-26:
Outdoor Track & Field
- Competed in seven meets
- Finished 19th in the long jump at the NCAA East First Round with a performance of 6.05m (19-10.25)
- First true freshman for JMU to qualify for NCAA East First Round since Olivia Viparina (Steeplechase) in 2016, and first Duke to make the regional in the long jump since Ebony Owusu-Sampah in 2015
- Ran a PR of 1:01.95 in the 400-meter hurdles at the Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/1)
- Recorded a career-best long jump of 6.30m (20-8) at the Virginia Challenge (4/17-4/18)
- Placed second in the long jump with a leap of 6.21m (20-4.5) at the Bob Davidson Team Challenge (3/20-3/21)
- Competed in seven meets
- Finished second in the long jump (5.75m) and fourth in the 300 meters (40.75) in her first collegiate meet at the Colonel Bev Read Opener (12/6)
- Won the long jump (6.08m) and 4x400-meter relay (3:50.89) at the VMI Invitational (1/23-1/24)
- Placed seventh in the long jump in 5.81m at the Sun Belt Championship (2/23-2/24)
- Dean's List (Spring 2026)
High School:
- 2025 Class 5A State Champion in the long jump and 300-meter hurdles
- Earned First Team All-National honors
- Set 5A state record in the long jump at 20-3.5
- Helped lead Maury to 2025 VHSL Class 5A State Outdoor Championship
Personal:
- Daughter of Melendez Byrd and Lynelle Slade-Byrd
- Has a younger brother, Blake, and an older sister, Mya
- Father Melendez played linebacker at Virginia Tech (1989-93), played one season for the Baltimore Stallions in the Canadian Football League
- Melendex is currently a professor and the department chair for the Professional School Counseling program at Norfolk State
- Mother Lynelle Slade-Byrd played volleyball at Virginia Tech (1993-98)
- Sister Mya played tennis at Old Dominion (2022-2026)
- Honor Roll
- National Honors Society
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