Yuya Sawada Season 2025
Yuya Sawada’s TFRRSXC profile (for top performances and meet results)
2025 USTFCCCA South Central All-Region
2025 Third Team All-SEC
2024-25 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2025 (SOPHOMORE)
Was a top-three scorer for LSU in all six meets competed in during a breakout season, also finished as LSU’s top runner in one… had the fourth-highest individual finish in program history at the NCAA Championships with a time of 19:58.7 in 106th as part of the first LSU team to ever make the national meet… helped the Tigers to the first ever top-two finish in program history at the NCAA South Central Regional with a time of 19:56.7 to finish fifth overall and earn USTFCCCA South Central All-Region honors… her fifth-place finish at regionals led LSU and was second best in program history… the finish also showed huge progress as she moved up 71 spots from last season’s 76th overall placement… earned Third Team All-SEC honors at the conference meet as the second scorer for LSU with a 6k time of 20:29.0 to finish 15th overall… closed the regular season with a 6k personal-best time of 19:32.0 at the Arturo Barrios Invitational to finish sixth overall… opened the season taking second with a 3k split of 9:58.8 at the LSU Invitational… finish fifth overall at the FSU Invitational with a 6k time of 20:23.5… USTFCCCA South Central All-Region… Third Team All-SEC.
2024 (FRESHMAN)
A valuable contributor to the Tigers in her freshman season, competing in five meets and scoring for LSU at two… opened her season taking third at the LSU Invitational after clocking a 3k PR of 9:35.2… finished fifth at the FSU Invitational with a 5k personal-best time of 17:25.8… recorded a PR in the 6k with 21:09.9 at the SEC Championships, placing her in 112th… finished 76th at the NCAA South Central Regional Championship.
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.