Joy Nwokike

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

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.