2024-25 Women's Track & Field Roster
Abria Smith
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Olympia Fields, Ill.
- Major:
- Special Education
 Shot Put Big Ten Champion (Outdoor '25) |
 All-American (Indoor and Outdoor Shot Put '25) |
 2x NCAA Championships Qualifier |
 First-Team All-Big Ten // Shot Put (Outdoor '25) |
 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.
TFRRS Profile
Illini Track I Melissa Wullschleger NCAA Outdoor All-American Heptathlon 6/14/25
Sunday, June 15
Illini Track I Rose Yeboah NCAA Outdoor All-American High Jump 6/14/25
Sunday, June 15
Illini Track I Kam Garrett NCAA Outdoor All-American High Jump 6/13/25
Saturday, June 14
Illini Track I Sophia Beckmon NCAA Outdoor All-American Long Jump 6/12/25
Friday, June 13
