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2024-25 Women's Track & Field Roster

Abria Smith

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Olympia Fields, Ill.
  • Major Special Education

Biography

Trophy BadgeShot Put Big Ten Champion (Outdoor '25)
USA Button All-American (Indoor and Outdoor Shot Put '25)
NCAA Badge 2x NCAA Championships Qualifier
Big Ten Logo white First-Team All-Big Ten // Shot Put (Outdoor '25)
Badge Illinois 2 Illinois Record - Shot Put

2025

Indoor

  • NCAA All-American (Shot Put)
  • NCAA Championships qualifier (Shot Put)
  • Placed seventh at the NCAA Indoor Championships with the program record shot put, 17.99m (59-0 1/4)
    •  She's the fourth Illini woman to make the shot put podium indoors and the first since Olympic medalist Aja Evans did so in 2009 taking fifth.
  • Placed fourth at the Big Ten Championships with a then-school record shot put of 17.87m (58-7 1/2)
  • Threw the program's fourth-best weight throw at the Tyson Invitational, 20.70m (67-11)

Outdoor

  • NCAA All-American (Shot Put)
  • Big Ten Champion (Shot Put)
  • NCAA Championships qualifier (Shot Put)
  • First-Team All-Big Ten (Shot Put)
  • National runner-up in the shot put throwing 18.85m (62-1 1/4), highest finisher ever in program history.
    • Fourth individual to become an All-American in the event and collects the program’s fifth shot put All-America honor.
  • Big Ten Champion in the shot put throwing 17.95m (58-10 3/4), program’s first since Olympic medalist Aja Evans in 2009.
  • Her program record throw of 18.92m (62-1) set at the Tom Jones Invitational is the 14th-furthest throw in NCAA Outdoor history. 

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