2025 Track & Field Roster
Biography
PRIOR TO UTEP
- Competed in jumps and sprints at South Dakota for two seasons (2023-2024).
- Leaped a personal-best 6.13 meters (20-1.5) with a first-place finish in the long jump at the 2024 Summit League Indoor Championships.
- Finished first in the long jump with a 5.89m (19-4) at the Nebraska Tune-Up.
- Clocked in a personal-best 11.85 (0.5) in the 100-meter dash at the 2023 Summit League Outdoor Championships.
- Won gold in the 4x100-meter relay with a time of 45.06 at the 2023 Summit League Outdoor Championships.
- Turned in a PR 7.70 in the 60-meter dash prelims at the 2023 Summit Indoor T&F Championships.
- Competed at U-Mary during the 2022 season.
- Clocked in a personal-best 1:01.05 in the 400 and finished second at the 2022 Mike Thorson Open.
- Earned All-American recognition as a long jumper in 2022, placing seventh at the NCAA Division II Championships with a leap of 19-8.25.
- Garnered USTFCCCA all-region honors for the Mauraders.
PERSONAL: Full name is Samoya Amoya Neil … born in Kingston, Jamaica … criminal justice major.
