Joy Nwokike

Position:
Sprints
Class:
Senior
High School:
Lilmark
Hometown:
Benin City, Nigeria

2025 OUTDOOR: Competed in eight meets for Akron...placed second in the 100 meters in 11.60 and second in the 200 meters in season-best time of 23.24 (No. 2 in indoor program history) at the MAC Championships (May 17)...member of winning 4x100 relay that crossed the line in 44.51 and sixth-place 4x400 relay at MAC Championships (May 17)...posted times of 23.79 and 53.71 in the 200 and 400 meters at the NCAA East Preliminary Round (May 29-31)...recorded school record and season-best time of 52.39 in preliminary round of 400 meters at NCAA East Preliminary Round (May 29)...recorded No. 4 time in outdoor program history crossing the line in a season-best time of 11.51 in the 100 meters in the preliminary round of the MAC Championships (May 16).

2025 OUTDOOR ACCOLADES: NCAA East Preliminary Round Qualifier in 200 and 400 meters and 4x100 relay...MAC Champion (4x100 relay)...First-Team All-MAC (4x100 relay)...Academic All-MAC honoree... MAC Track Athlete of the Week (March 25, May 13)...College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree...USTFCCCA All-Academic recipient.

2025 INDOOR: Competed in six meets for Akron...won league title in the 60 meters in a time of 7.38 at the MAC Championships (March 1), while also running on the winning 4x400 relay team that crossed the line in. 3:44.85...placed third in the 200 meters in a time of 24.18 at the MAC Championships (March 1)...recorded a school record and season-best time of 7.34 in the 60 meters in the preliminary round of the MAC Championships (Feb. 28)...registered season-best time of 23.79 (school record) in the 200 meters at the Al Campbell Invitational (Jan. 17)...posted school record time of 53.29 in the 400 meters at the Windy City Invitational (Feb. 14).

2025 INDOOR ACCOLADES: MAC Champion (60 meters and 4x400 relay)...First-Team All-MAC (60 meters and 4x400 relay)...Academic All-MAC honoree...MAC Track Athlete of the Week (Jan. 14, Jan. 21).

2024 OUTDOOR: Competed in six meets for Akron...selected as MAC Most Outstanding Track Performer of the Year after capturing the 200 and 400 meters at the MAC Championships (May 11) as well as running on the runner-up 4x400 relay team that crossed the line in a school-record time of 3:39.10...posted a school-record time of 53.48 to win the 400 meters at the MAC Championships (May 11), while crossing the line in 23.42 in the 200 meters...registered times of 23.63 and 53.98 in the 200 and 400 meters, respectively, at the NCAA East Preliminary Round (May 23)...her time of 23.44 in the 200 meters at the Jim Green Invitational (April 20) in the No. 3 performance in outdoor program history.

2024 OUTDOOR ACCOLADES: MAC Most Outstanding Track Performer of the Year...NCAA East Preliminary Round qualifier (200M | 400M)...MAC Champion (200M | 400M)...First-Team All-MAC (200M | 400M)...Second-Team All-MAC (4x400 relay)...College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selection...MAC Track Athlete of the Week (March 27).

2024 INDOOR: Competed in seven meets for Akron...placed third in the 60 meters in a season-best time of 7.45 at the MAC Championships (Feb. 24), while also earning a third-place finish in the 200 meters in 24.57...member of fourth-place 4x400 relay squad at the MAC Championships (Feb. 24)...posted a season-best time of 24.23 in the 200 meters at the Tyson Invitational (Feb. 16)...recorded a season-best performance of 55.83 in the 400 meters at the Akron Invitational (Feb. 2).

PERSONAL: Majoring in sport studies...daughter of Peter and Nkiru Nwokike.