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UTEP Miners

2024 Track & Field Roster

Zani Meaders

  • Position Sprints
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Chino Hills, Calif.
  • Prev School UC Irvine
  • High School Chino Hills HS

Biography

2023 All-Conference USA First Team (4x400 Outdoor)
2023 All-Conference USA Second Team (4x100 Outdoor)
2023 All-Conference USA Third Team (400 Outdoor)
Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll (2023)
Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medalist (2023)

 
2023 OUTDOOR (JUNIOR)
  • Capped first season with UTEP earning a trio of All-CUSA honors.
  • Named All-CUSA first team on the 4x400m relay team after taking gold with a 3:38.87.
  • Earned All-CUSA second team honors in the 4x100 with a 44.66.
  • Took bronze in the 400m with a 54.50 at the CUSA Championships, earning All-CUSA third team honors. 
  • Completed in the 400m, 4x100 and 4x400 at the NCAA West Preliminaries at Sacramento State.
  • Opened UTEP career with a pair of first-place finishes in the 4x100 (44.31) and 4x400 (3:38.65) at the Willie Williams Classic. 
  • Added a fifth-place showing in the 400 with a 54.80 at the Willie Williams.
  • Crossed the finish line first in the 400m, clocking in a 53.65 at the New Mexico Spring Invitational. 
  • On the second-place 4x100m relay team that placed second (44.05) at the Desert Heat Classic. 

PRIOR TO UTEP
  • Competed at UC Irvine (2019-2022).
  • Scored in three events and earned all-conference awards at the 2022 Big West Championships. 
  • Claimed runner-up honors in the 400m (55.79) and ran the third leg of UCI's 4x400 that took third. 
  • Earned Big West All-Academic honors in 2022.
  • During freshman season in 2019, earned All-Big West honors with a a third-place finish in the 400m at the conference championships. 
  • Lettered four years in track & field at Chino Hills High School.
  • Three-time CIF-Southern Section Division I finalist in the 400m.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023Junior

    Sprints
  • 2024Senior

    Sprints