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Davis Set to Represent Track & Field at USATF U20 Championships at Hayward Field
Story Links EUGENE, Ore. – For the third consecutive year, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros track & field program will be represented at the USA Track & Field U20 Championships, this year by freshman Jizzale Davis. Davis will compete Friday in the women’s 200-meter dash. The first […]

EUGENE, Ore. – For the third consecutive year, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros track & field program will be represented at the USA Track & Field U20 Championships, this year by freshman Jizzale Davis.
Davis will compete Friday in the women’s 200-meter dash. The first round is set for 6:08 p.m. (CT) and Davis will run in the second of three heats. The top three finishers in each heat plus the next three best times will advance to the final, scheduled for 7:45 p.m. (CT).
Earning this opportunity adds to the successful freshman season Davis put together for the Vaqueros. She racked up three medals at conference championship meets and made the finals in both the 200 and 100-meter dashes at the indoor and outdoor championships.
Davis ran her U20-qualifying time of 23.53 – which is a personal record and the No. 2 time in the UTRGV outdoor record books – as she captured the silver medal at the Southland Conference (SLC) Outdoor Championships in May. She also took fourth in the 100 and with the 4×100-meter relay at the event. The conference meet capped a stellar debut season which saw her open the outdoor campaign with a personal record in the 100 and earn two meet wins at the J. Fred Duckett Twilight in April, taking the victory in the 200 and with the 4×100 relay.
Davis already sits atop the indoor record books in two events – she is tied for the top indoor 200 race in program history and set the program record in the 4×400-meter relay with teammates Aliyah Castillo, Zoë Adams and Trinity Kirk. Davis immediately showed her potential just two months into her career as she captured two bronze medals at the SLC Indoor Championships in the 200 and 4×400-meter relay while also taking eighth in the 60-meter dash.
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