JaMeesia Ford

Career Honors and Recognition
2024 NCAA Indoor Champion (200, 4x400m)
2024 Outdoor First Team All-American (3x)
2024 Outdoor Second Team All-SEC
2024 Indoor First Team All-American (2x)
2024 Indoor First Team All-SEC
2024 SEC Freshman Runner of the Year (Indoor & Outdoor)
2024 USTFCCCA Southeast Region Track Athlete of the Year (Indoor & Outdoor)
2024 Bowerman Watch List Candidate

Season and Career Highlights
2024
Indoor
Appeared in seven meets and took the track & field world by storm, running the 200m, 300m, 400m and the 4x400m relay, winning every single race that she competed in … Was named SEC Women’s Freshman Runner of the Year as well as the USTFCCCA Southeast Region Track Athlete of the Year … Etched her name in the record books at the NCAA Indoor Championship with a pair of gold medals in the 200m and the 4x400m relay, earning two First Team All-American nods … Ran the fourth fastest collegiate 200m and fastest U20 time in history to win gold at the NCAA Indoor Championship, clocking 22.34 for a new program record to become the first Gamecock woman to win the indoor 200m since 2006 … Was the anchor leg of the women’s 4x400m relay national championship squad, running 3:26.20 for the gold medal including a split of 50.74 just 30 minutes after her 200m final for the program’s first 4x400m relay championship since 2019 … Prior to the NCAA Indoor Championship, Ford won both the 200m and the 4x400m relay at the SEC Indoor Championship to earn First Team All-SEC honors … She ran a then program record of 22.36 in the SEC Championship 200m final to become the program’s first ever SEC Indoor 200m champion … Was the anchor leg of the SEC 4x400m Championship team, running a program time of 3:26.05 with a split of 49.80 for the first SEC crown in 15 years … Took the track & field world by storm with the second fastest collegiate 300m to begin her collegiate career at the Clemson Opener, running a program record time of 35.83 for the win and then later was the opening leg of the 4x400m relay squad that won with a time of 3:36.46 … Ran the 300m in her home debut at the Gamecock Opener, running in 36.00 flat for a new Carolina Indoor Track & Field Facility record … Brought home the Gamecock Opener 4x400m relay win as the anchor leg, running 3:31.27 … Won a pair of 200m races during the regular season, running 22.58 at the Razorback Invitational and then 22.36 at the Tiger Paw Invite … Secured a pair of wins in the 400m at the New Balance Collegiate Showdown (51.60) and the Tiger Paw Invite (51.33) … Her time of 51.33 at the Tiger Paw Invite set a new personal best and is the third fastest indoor 400m in program history.

Outdoor
Appeared in nine outdoor meets for South Carolina, running the 100m, 200m, 400m and both the 4x100m and 4x400m relays … Earned USTFCCCA Southeast Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year … Swept the SEC Women’s Freshman Runner of the Year honor … Earned a trio of First Team All-American honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championship, doing so in the 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m relays … Finished runner-up at the national championship meet in the 200m with a program record time and PR time of 22.08, while finishing third in the 4x100m relay with time of 42.63 … Was also sixth in the 4x400m relay, running as the anchor leg and turning in a new program record time of 3:24.86 … Finished second at the NCAA East Regional meet in the 200m (22.28) and was also the anchor leg in the 4x100m relay that ran a program record time of 42.46 to finish first … Scored at the SEC Championship in the 100m, 200m, and the 4x400m relay … Earned Second Team All-SEC honors after finishing runner-up in both the 200m (22.11) and the 4x400m relay (3:25.02) … Finished seventh in the 100m at the SEC Outdoor Championship, turning in a time of 11.24 … Made her outdoor debut at the Weems Baskin Invitational, running the 400m in a time of 51.16 for the win … The following week, she claimed her first outdoor 200m title of the season at the Florida Relays, clocking 22.37 … Ran a collegiate best 400m time of 50.81 at the Tom Jones Invitational, finishing fifth overall with the fourth fastest outdoor 400m time in Gamecock history … Won both the 100m and the 200m at the Charlotte Invitational, running a personal best time of 11.13 in the 100m, while turning in 22.21 in the 200m … Her time of 11.13 in the 100m at Charlotte ranks fifth all-time in program history … Was part of seven different relay victories, including four 4x100m relay wins.

Pre- South Carolina
High School
Was a track & field phenom for Jack Britt High School in Fayetteville, N.C. … During her time with the Buccaneers, Ford accounted for 24 gold medals in events such as the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and the 4x400m … She also secured seven silver medals, six bronze medals and two copper medals … During the 2023 season, Ford earned the title of Women’s 4A Track & Field State Champion MVP Athlete and was the United 8 Athletic Conference Women’s Track & Field Runner of the Year in the 100m, 200m, 400m and the 4x400m relay … She was also a member of the United 8 Athletic Conference First Team All-Conference squad … She earned three key gold medals during her senior season: U20 San Juan 4x400m, Nike Nationals 400m and the Brooks Invitation 400m … She also finished as the USATF U20 400m bronze medalist during her senior campaign … Her junior campaign saw her rise to high expectations as well, earning gold medal in the Adidas Nationals in the 100m, 200m and the 400m – setting a new record in the 400m … She was also named Jack Britt Women’s Indoor Track MVP … During the 2022 season, Ford was awarded United 8 Athletic Conference Women’s Track & Field Runner of the Year … The 2021 campaign saw Ford earn her first Women’s Track & Field MVP Sprinter following the COVID season in 2020 … She was also awarded Jack Britt’s Varsity Girls Track & Field Runner of the Year and earned a spot on the United 8 All-Conference First Team in the 100m, 200m, 400m, and the 4x400m … Ford entered college with the following personal bests for indoor: 55m (7.07), 200m (23.58) and 300m (40.11); while holding the following outdoor personal bests of: 100m (11.34), 200m (23.06), 400m (51.77), 800m (2:28.40) and the 1600m (6:39.86).

Personal Records

Indoor

Outdoor