Aalliyah Francis

Career Honors and Recognition
2023 Indoor Second Team All-American
2023 Indoor Second Team All-SEC
2023 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll

Season and Career Highlights
2024
Indoor
Appeared in seven meets for the Gamecocks, running the 300m, 400m and the 4x400m relay … Made her season debut at the Clemson Opener in the 300m, finishing fourth overall with a time of 37.18 … Took home the 400m title in the Gamecock Opener with a time of 55.20 … Recorded two more Top-5 finishes in the 400m during the indoor season, doing so at the Carolina Challenge (3^rd) and the SC Invite (4^th) … Ran a new personal best 400m time of 53.39 at the SEC Championship during the preliminary rounds … Ran four different 4x400m relays, including running the second leg at the Clemson Opener and guiding Carolina to a win with a time of 3:36.46.

Outdoor
Appeared in four meets during the outdoor season, running the 200m, 400m and the 4x400m relay … Opened the season with a pair of wins at the Shamrock Invitational in both the 400m (54.74) and the 4x400m relay (3:46.29) … The following week, she recorded a win in the 200m at the Weems Baskin Invitational with a time of 22.92 … Was also the anchor leg of the 4x400m relay squad that won at Weems Baskin, turning in a time of 3:34.80 … Ran a new PR in the 400m at the Florida Relays, finishing fifth with a time of 52.99 and was also the leadoff leg in the 4x400m relay that won in Gainesville after running 3:28.57 … Ended her season with a new wind-aided PR in the 200m at the Tom Jones Invitational, crossing the line in 22.82 for the seventh fastest outdoor 200m in program history.

2023
Indoor
Competed in six meets during the indoor season, running the 200m, 300m, 400m and the 4x400m relay … Earned First Team All-American honors at the NCAA Indoor Championship in the 4x400m relay, running as the second leg on a team that finished seventh with a time of 3:30.09 for the ninth fastest relay time in program history … Also earned Second Team All-SEC in the 4x400m relay after finishing runner up in the relay with a time of 3:32.35, running as the second leg … Made her Gamecock debut at the Clemson Opener by winning the 300m sprint, running a personal best 36.83 … Ran the second leg in the 4x400m relay at the Clemson Opener, winning with a time of 3:39.89 … Was also part of the 4x400m relay team that won the Gamecock Opener, running the third leg and turning in a time of 3:37.93 … Turned in a personal best time in the 200m at the Carolina Challenge, running 23.99 to finish fourth … Posted a season-best finish in the 400m by running a PR time of 54.24 to finish third.

Outdoor
Took part in six outdoor meets on the season, running the 400m, 4x100m and the 4x400m relays … Made her outdoor Gamecock debut at the Island Relays Bahamas, finishing third in the 400m (53.29), while also running the leadoff leg in the 4x100m relay squad that finished fourth with a time of 44.95 … The following week, started off the 4x100m relay team and helped the Gamecocks to the win with a season-best time of 44.17 … Her first 4x400m relay appearance of the outdoor season was at the Tom Jones Memorial, running as the third leg of the squad that turned in a season-best time of 3:32.61 … Turned in a PR performance in the 400m at the USC Open, finishing fifth with a time of 53.26 … Final relay appearance came at the Penn Relays, finishing fourth with a time of 3:33.02 as the leadoff leg … Competed in the SEC Outdoor Championship in the 400m, running 53.73 in the prelims.

Pre-South Carolina
High School

Competed in the 200m, 400m and long jump at Rusea’s High in Westmoreland, Jamaica.

Personal

Daughter of Derrick Francis and Yvette Gaye, born May 5, 2002 … Has four siblings: Trishana Henry, Toni Francis, Kadeem Francis and Daquan Francis … Cousin, Demish Gaye, is a professional track & field athlete in the 400m … Plans to major in finance with the hopes of becoming a financial advisor … Chose South Carolina over Auburn, Texas, Clemson, Florida State, Mississippi State and Kentucky.

Personal Records
Indoor

Outdoor