SAN ANTONIO – UTSA Director Track & Field/Cross Country Aaron Fox announced on Friday that the Roadrunners have added 12-time All-American and NCAA Division II National Champion sprinter Shadae Findley to join the Roadrunners roster for the 2024-25 season.
“We are extremely excited to announce the signing of Shadae to the program,” Fox said. “She is an incredible athlete with a wide range of events she has excelled at over the years. We are looking forward to helping Shadae achieve her academic and athletic goals!”
Originally from Evergreen, Manchester, Jamaica, where she graduated from St. Elizabeth Technical High School in nearby Santa Cruz, Findley comes to San Antonio with notable championship success at both Angelo State in San Angelo, Texas, and Western Texas College in Snyder. She has accumulated eight NCAA DII All-American accolades, four each in the 400-meter and on the 4x400-meter relay – twice in 400m as first team; twice as second team and four times with first-team honors on the 4x400m. Before ASU, she was a three-time individual second team NJCAA All-American in the 800-meter and once with the 4x800-meter relay at WTC.
Ranked as high as 310th in the world among all classes in the 400m, Findley earned the bronze medal at the 2024 NCAA DII Outdoor Championships in Emporia, Kan., registering a career-best and school-record 52.81 clocking. She went on to anchor the ASU 4x400m relay to an NCAA title on a 51.93 split, with the squad combining for a school-record 3:32.88 final – joined on the relay by recently-announced 2024-25 Roadrunner addition Fatoumata Kabo. The 4x400m quartet also earned bronze at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships. In 2023, Findley earned fifth in the 400m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, also helping ASU’s 4x400m to a third-place finish, following up an indoor season that saw the squad earn the silver medal at 2023 NCAA Indoors in Virginia Beach, Va.
Earlier in her career, Findley also ran longer distances, coming in 37th in the cross country 6k race at the 2023 Lone Star Conference Championships (24:00.20).
During her time at Angelo State, Findley collected four Lone Star Conference titles in the 400m (1), 800m (1) and 4x400m (2).
With more focus on longer sprints and middle distance early in her time at Angelo State and at Western Texas, Findley clocked a career-best 2:09.74 to win the 800m at the 2023 David Noble Relays in San Angelo. At WTC, she collected NJCAA Outdoor Championships silver in the 800m and also anchored WTC’s 4x800m relay to second place at the national outdoor meet in 2022. Findley also earned second in the 800m at the 2022 NJCAA Indoor Championships, while helping the distance medley relay to eighth and the 4x400m relay to ninth. Capturing national medals in her first season, Findley earned an 800m silver medal and 4x400m eighth-place finish at the 2021 NJCAA Outdoor Championships and was third in the half mile with an eighth-place DMR finish at the indoor meet.
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