LSU Gold
Position
Distance
Height
5'5
Class
Sophomore
Hometown
Hamamatsu City, Japan
High School
Hamamatsu Shiritsu HS
Experience
1L
Indoor Class
Sophomore

Yuya Sawada’s TFRRS profile (for top performances and meet results)

2024-25 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

LSU All-Time Top 10 Performance List
No. 6: Outdoor 5000 Meter (16:43.95, 2025 SEC Outdoor Championships)

2025 OUTDOOR (FRESHMAN)
Closed her season at the SEC Outdoor Championships clocking the No. 6 5000-meter time in LSU performance-list history of 16:43.95 to finish 29th… also finished 12th in the 1500 meter at the SEC Championships with a time of 4:32.47… clocked her collegiate-best time of 4:20.34 in the 1500 meter to finish third at the LSU Invitational… clocked a collegiate PR of 2:14.30 in the 800 meter to finish fifth at the Battle at the Beach… opened the season taking first in the 1500 meter at the Lurline Hamilton Invitational with a time of 4:29.68… finished third in the 1500m at the LSU Alumni Gold meet with a time of 4:23.82.

2025 INDOOR (FRESHMAN)
Competed in one meet during her first indoor season with the Tigers… clocked her collegiate-best indoor time of 4:53.28 at the LSU Purple Tiger in the mile to finish fourth.

PRIOR TO LSU – Hamamatsu Shiritsu HS
One of the premier U20 distance runners in the world coming out of high school… helped Team Japan to a seventh-place finish in the mixed relay at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships with their team time of 23:18.0… finished sixth at the World U20 Championships in 2022 with a time of 4:12.87 in the 1500 meter… holds personal-best times of 4:12.87 (1500m) and 9:13.12 (3000m) in track & field… finished fifth in the 4k at the 2021 All Japan High School Championships with a time of 13:09.0… took 18th in the 6k at the 2023 All Japan High School Championships with a time of 20:09.0.

PERSONAL
Born on March 1, 2006, in Hamamatsu City, Japan… daughter of Junichi and Hiromi Sawada… plans to pursue a degree in engineering at LSU.

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