Shalysa Wray has raced to a quick start for the 2023 track-and-field preseason, turning in personal best times and school records at recent indoor meets.
At her first meet of the preseason, the Kansas State University junior, who represented Cayman at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, recorded two personal best times and won three events at the KU-KSU-WSU (University of Kansas-KSU-Wichita State University) Triangular, on 13 Jan.
She ran the 60 metre in 7.38 seconds, a new facility record and the second fastest time in her school’s history.
She then went on to run a personal best in the 200m, stopping the clock at 23.85 seconds – the fastest time since A’Keyla Mitchell set the school record of 22.96 seconds in the 2015 NCAA Championships.
Then she closed out the meet by running the mixed 4x400m relay, with her team clocking 3:26.48.
“I was just waiting for this time to come and show everybody how hard I’ve been working,” Wray said in an article on her school’s website.
A week later, on 20 Jan., she competed at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational in Topeka at her home Ahearn Field House, where she won the 300m in a meet record time and personal best of 37.80 seconds.
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