LSU Gold
Position
Sprints
Height
5'3
Class
Junior
Hometown
Portmore, Jamaica
High School
Hydel HS
Experience
2L
Indoor Class
Junior

Brianna Lyston’s TFRRS profile (for top performances and meet results)

1x NCAA National Champion
5x USTFCCCA First Team All-American
1x USTFCCCA Second Team All-American
3x SEC Champion
3x First Team All-SEC
2x Second Team All-SEC
2024 NCAA Outdoor Champion (60 Meter)
2024 SEC Outdoor Champion (100 Meter)
2024 SEC Indoor Champion (60 Meter)
2023-24 USTFCCCA South Central Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
2023-24 The Bowerman Award Women’s Watch List
2023-24 LSWA Women’s Track Athlete of the Year
2023-24 USTFCCCA All-Academic Award
2024 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll
2023 SEC Outdoor Champion (4×100-Meter Relay)
2022-23 LSWA Women’s Freshman of the Year
2022-23 USTFCCCA All-Academic Award
2022-23 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week 1x (01/30/24)
SEC Women’s Runner of the Week 1x (01/30/24)
SEC Women’s Freshman of the Week 1x (02/21/23)

LSU All-Time Top 10 Performance List
No. 1: Indoor 60 Meters (7.03, 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships)
No. 4: Outdoor 100 Meters (10.91, 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships)
No. 4: Outdoor 4×100-Meter Relay (42.49, 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships)
T-No. 6: Outdoor 4×100-Meter Relay (42.52, 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships)
No. 7: Outdoor 200 Meters (22.31, 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships)

Collegiate All-Time Top 10 Performance List
No. 2: Indoor 60 Meters (7.03, 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships)
No. 10: Outdoor 100 Meters (10.91, 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships)
T-No. 10: Outdoor 4×100-Meter Relay (42.49, 2024 SEC Outdoor Championships)
T-No. 10: Outdoor 4×100-Meter Relay (42.52, 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships)

2024 OUTDOOR (SOPHOMORE)
Lyston doubled her historic indoor season with one of the best sprint seasons in LSU history outdoors… named to each in-season Bowerman Watch List update during 2024, one of four in the nation to do this… finished the NCAA Outdoor Championships with two First Team (100m, 4×100) All-American nods and one Second Team (200m) nod… recorded a time of 10.89w seconds to finish runner-up in the 100 meter at the NCAA Outdoor Championships… helped the women’s 4×100-meter relay to a runner-up finish with a time of 42.57 seconds at the NCAA Championships… clocked a time of 22.76 seconds in the NCAA Championship 200-meetr semifinals to finish 13th overall… Lyston contributed a team high of 16.5 points at the SEC Outdoor Championships, helping the Tigers claim their 26th SEC women’s team title… won the SEC Championship 100m title with a legal personal-best time of 10.91 seconds; which is No. 4 in LSU PL history, No. 10 in collegiate PL history, No. 3 in the nation in 2024, No. 6 in the world and No. 1 for Jamaicans in 2024 at this point of the season… Lyston helped the 4x100m relay to a bronze-medal finish at the SEC Championships with her starter leg, clocking a team time of 42.49 seconds; which ranks fourth in LSU PL history, fifth in the nation during 2024 and 10th on the all-time collegiate PL… clocked a personal-best time of 22.31 seconds at the SEC Championships to finish fourth; the time ranked seventh in the nation in 2024 and seventh in LSU PL history… clocked the fastest collegiate-100m opener regardless of conditions with 10.87w, her first time running the 100 meter since high school (725 total days)… ran an all-conditions SB of 10.84 seconds (+2.2 m/s) that was barely over the legal limit at the LSU Alumni Gold meet… SEC 100-Meter Champion… USTFCCCA First Team All-American (100m, 4×100)… USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (200m)… First Team All-SEC (100m)… Second Team All-SEC (4×100)… USTFCCCA The Bowerman Watch List member.

2024 INDOOR (SOPHOMORE)
After having her first indoor season cut short, Lyston put on the greatest 60-meter season in LSU history and one of the best in collegiate history in 2024… crowned the USTFCCCA South Central Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year after going undefeated across 60 meters during the season… clocked an LSU record, No. 1 time in the nation, No. 2 time in collegiate history, No. 5 time in the world and No. 5 time in indoor-Jamaican history of 7.03 seconds to win the NCAA Indoor Championship 60-meter title… helped the LSU 4×400-meter relay to an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Championships with a time of 3:31.05… earned two First Team All-American honors for her performance at the NCAA Championship… claimed the 60-meter title at the SEC Indoor Championships with a meet-record time of 7.08 seconds… tied what was the LSU record of 7.07 seconds held by Aleia Hobbs in her first 60m of the season to win at the Razorback Invitational, earned SEC Women’s Runner of the Week for the performance… opened the season with a win in the 4x400m relay and a time of 3:32.96 at the Corky Classic… finished first in the 60m with a time of 7.17 seconds at the LSU Twilight… clocked 23.16 seconds in her lone 200 meter of the season to finish seventh at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic… USTFCCCA South Central Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year… NCAA 60-Meter Champion… SEC 60-Meter Champion… USTFCCCA First Team All-American (60m)… First Team All-SEC (60m)… SEC Women’s Runner of the Week (01/30).

2023 OUTDOOR (FRESHMAN)
Ran the third leg of the NCAA Outdoor Championship 4×100-meter relay team that took third at the meet with a time of 42.52 seconds that ranks fifth in LSU performance list history… also, placed 24th in the 200 at the NCAA Championships… helped the 4×100 team to a third-place finish at the NCAA East Preliminaries… qualified for the NCAA East Preliminaries in both the 200 and 4×100… was crowned an SEC Champion running the third leg of the 4×100 team, helping the team to a time of 42.92 seconds… set her collegiate PR of 23.05 seconds at the SEC Championships to take 11th in the prelims… took first in the 4×100 at the LSU Battle on the Bayou… opened the season up with a first-place finish in the 4×400-meter relay and second-place finish in the 4×100 at the Hurricane Invitational… helped the 4×100 team to a third-place finish at the LSU Invitational… USTFCCCA First Team All-American (4×100)… First Team All-SEC (4×100)… SEC 4×100 Champion… SEC Women’s Freshman of the Week (02/21)… LSWA Women’s Freshman of the Year.

2023 INDOOR (FRESHMAN)
Set her personal-best time of 7.29 seconds in the 60 meter to take first at the Tyson Invitational… placed second in the 60 at the LSU Twilight with a time of 7.30 seconds to earn SEC Freshman of the Week honors.

PRIOR TO LSU – Hydel HS
One of the top prospects to ever make their way to the collegiate track and field scene… coming out of high school, ranked third in the world among U20 sprinters in the 100m with a personal best of 11.14 seconds and second in the 200m at 22.53 seconds… crowned the 2022 World U20 Champion in the 200 meter, recording a time of 22.62 seconds… holds a 200 PR of 22.53 seconds (-2.2 m/s), which is the second best Jamaican time in U20 history… holds the U13 world record in the 200 of 23.72 seconds… ran 23.16 to win gold at the 49th Carifta Games at the National Stadium in Kingston.

PERSONAL
Born on May 24, 2004, in Portmore, Jamaica… daughter of Gregory Lyston and Zelveiga Bennett… has two siblings, Destiny and Ottaevia… plans to pursue a degree in sport administration at LSU.

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