DaJah Parker-Love Season 2025
Prior to LSU
Competed at Norfolk State from 2017-2021 prior to joining LSU.
2020-21: Competed at six meets during the 2021 calendar year … clocked personal bests of 11.40 in the 100 meters and 23.55 in the 200 meters at the Gamecock Invitational … member of the 4×100 meter relay squad that won gold at the Gamecock Invitational … registered personal best of 7.37 in the 60 meters at the Kenneth Giles Norfolk State Invitational to garner silver.
2019-20: Named to the NSU AD Honor Roll for the spring semester. Indoor: Clocked a personal-best 60m time of 7.42 seconds at the VMI Team Challenge in the prelims, and won the event with a 7.44 clocking in the finals … Also won the 200m in 24.13 at that meet … Was runner-up in the 200m at the Penn State National, setting a new PR of 23.84 seconds … Placed third in both the 60 (7.57) and 200 (24.62) at the Darius Dixon Invitational … Posted a seventh-place finish in the 60m at the MEAC Indoor Championships, registering a time of 7.57 in the finals. Outdoor: Season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2018-19: Indoor: Notched top-five finishes in the 200 meters at Virginia Tech (25.14 seconds, fifth place) and 60 meters at VMI (7.69, fourth place) in her first two collegiate meets … Won the 60-meter dash at the Liberty Flames Invitational in 7.62 seconds … Took seventh in the 60m at the MEAC Indoor Championships … Ran a PR of 7.61 seconds in the prelims and a 7.62 in the final. Outdoor: Ran a leg on NSU’s victorious sprint medley relay team at the Florida Relays … Had a hand in three top-five finishes at the Virginia Grand Prix … Helped the 4×100 relay win its event, then was third in the 100 meters (11.58) and fourth in the 200 (PR of 23.94) … Clocked a 100m PR of 11.56 seconds at the MEAC Outdoor Championships, qualifying her for the NCAA East Preliminary Round … Ran an 11.80 at regionals, good for 35th out of 48 runners … Selected the track team’s Rookie of the Year.
2017-18: Redshirted.
High School: Was Virginia 6A state champion in the 100 meters (11.83) and 200 meters (24.05) as a senior … Ran a high school PR of 11.76 seconds her senior year … Qualified for New Balance Outdoor Nationals in the 200 and with the 4×400 relay team, which placed fourth … Was fourth in the state in the 55 meters and fifth in the 300 during her senior indoor season … Attended Churchland High as a junior … Won the East Region and VHSL 4A state indoor titles in both the 55 and 300 meters as a junior … Qualified for the New Balance Indoor Nationals in both the 60 and 200 meters … At the 4A state outdoor meet her junior year, helped Churchland win the 4×100 relay title while placing second in the 100 and third in the 200.
Personal: DaJah Parker-Love was born on Oct. 19, 1998 … Daughter of Kelvin and Jacqueline Key … Majoring in sociology.