SPU: Four-year letterwinner. ... All-GNAC indoor 4x400 relay in 2023. ... All-GNAC in 4x100 relay in 2022. ... USTFCCCA 2nd Team All-American in 4x100 relay in 2022. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2022.
Senior (2024): INDOOR – Placed 7th in the 200 in 25.61 and 9th in the 400 in 58.99 at the GNAC Championships on Feb. 20 in Ellensburg. In the preliminaries on Feb. 19, came through with personal bests in both races: 25.52 in the 200 and 58.99 in the 400. … Led off the 4th-place 4x400 relay at GNAC. … Ran a personal-best 8.14 in the 60-meter dash on Dec. 9 at the season-opening Spokane Invitational.
OUTDOOR – Led off the 4th-place 4x400 relay at the GNAC Championships. Also placed 9th in the 400 dash (58.31) and 11th in the 200 (25.53). … Won the 100-meter dash in 12.72 at the Doris Heritage Invitational in Renton on April 5, her third career individual victory and her first in that event. … Led off the winning 4x400 relay at the season-opening Ed Boitano Invitational in Tacoma on March 2.
Junior (2023): INDOOR – Led off the 3rd-place 4-by-400 relay at GNAC, followed by Marissa Crane, Johanna Brown, and Vanessa Aniteye, as they posted a 3:53.54. ... Also placed 6th in the 200-meter dash in an indoor personal-best 25.63 and 10th in the 400 in 59.74. ... Set a personal best of 8.16 in the 60 dash at the season-opening Spokane Invitational on Dec. 10. ... Broke one minute in the indoor 400 for the first time at the UW Indoor Preview on Jan. 14, going 59.55. ... Nearly matched her 60 dash PB on that same day with an 8.18. ... Lowered her 400 PB to 59.06 on Feb. 11 at the Husky Classic.
OUTDOOR – Placed 7th in the 400 dash in 59.50 and 8th in the 200 in 26.14 at GNAC. Also led off the 5th-place 4-by-100 relay, followed by Marissa Crane, Hannah Chang, and Charisma Smith. ... Won the 200 and was on the winning 4-by-400 relay at the season-opening Ed Boitano Invitational on March 4 in Tacoma. ... Set a PB of 12.61 in the 100 at the Doris Heritage Track Festival on March 18 in Renton. ... Broke her 400 dash personal best with her first sub-58, going 57.99 at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational in Pomona, Calif., on April 8. ... Set a new 200 PB with a 25.30 at the CWU Wildcat Invitational in Ellensburg on April 22. At that same meet, won the 400 dash in 58.21. ... Led off the winning 4-by-100 relay at the regular-season finale Portland Twilight on May 6.
Sophomore (2022): INDOOR – Placed 8th in the 200-meter dash at the GNAC Championships in 25.95. In the previous day's preliminaries, broke the 26-second mark with a time of 25.71. ... Also was 11th in the 400 dash with an indoor personal-best of 1:00.64, and led off the 3rd-place 4-by-400 relay. ... In her indoor debut on Dec. 11 at the Spokane Invitational, went 8.25 in the 60-meter dash that stood up as her personal best for the rest of the season.
OUTDOOR – Teamed with Peace Igbonagwam, Vanessa Aniteye, and Jenna Bouyer for an All-American 10th-place finish in the 4-by-100 relay at the NCAA Championships, with a time of 46.30. ... Just two weeks earlier at the GNAC Championships on May 14 in Ellensburg, that foursome won in 45.88 seconds. In so doing, they broke the school record, GNAC record, and GNAC meet record, as well as securing their trip to nationals. ... Including that one, was part of three winning 4-by-100s during the season. ... Broke the one-minute mark in the 400 for the first time by finishing in 59.70 at the West Coast Relays in Fresno on April 1. ... Lowered that PB to 58.88 at the Portland Twilight on May 7, then went even faster at 58.59 in the GNAC preliminaries on May 13.
Freshman (2021): INDOOR - Season canceled.
OUTDOOR - Placed 12th in the 100 and 200-meter dashes at GNAC. Her 100 time of 12.69 was a personal best. ... Set a PR of 25.94 - her first college sub-26 - for 4th in place in the 200 at the Buc Scoring Invite in Spokane on April 30. ... Focused exclusively on those two events in all eight meets that she ran.
Personal: Aniya So'Lay Green. ... Exercise science major.
Curtis High School: Led off the 2nd-place 4-by-200 relay at the Class 4A (large school) Washington state meet as a sophomore in 2018. That same foursome won the South Puget Sound League championship and was 2nd at district. ... That same year, Green was the leadoff runner on Curtis' 4-by-100 relay that won SPSL, was 2nd at district, and qualified for state. That group included current SPU teammate Jenna Bouyer on the anchor leg. ... As a junior, was the leadoff on the 5th-place 4-by-200 at state.
Fun facts: Started track in the 5th grade. Got inspired to give it a try after watching the Olympics on television -- and, she says, by playing the Mario and Sonic Olympic video games. ...
Also has played soccer and basketball. ...
If not for track, would play soccer. ...
Favorite sport to watch is track & field. ...
Dumbest movie she has seen is "Frozen." ...
Book she just couldn't put down was "One of Us is Lying" by Karen McManus. ...
Favorite junk food is hot fries. ...
Favorite healthy food is plant-based burger / chicken sliders. ...
Favorite TV programs are comedies. ...
Her dream car is a Kia Soul. ...
Favorite athlete is American sprinter / long jumper Tianna Bartoletta. ...
Her pre-meet ritual is praying and asking God for the strength and speed to do her best, and to avoid any injuries. ...
If she could invite anyone to dinner, it would be Florence Griffith-Joyner "because she is one of my inspirations for running track." ...
If she could be any action hero, would be Shuri "because she is a powerful scientist who also is a warrior." ...
Her friends call her Speed. ...
In 10 years, plans to be a physician assistant and possibly training for the Olympics. ...
Her passion for track has taken her to Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, and North Carolina. ... Says that because she is just 5 feet, 1 inch tall,
people are sometimes surprised that she is a sprinter.
INDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
60 dash: 8.14 (12/9/2023)
200: 25.52 (2/19/2024)
400: 58.99 (2/19/2024)
OUTDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
100: 12.61 (3/18/2023)
200: 25.30 (4/22/2023)
400: 57.99 (4/8/2023)
CAREER RESULTS
