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2018-19 Track and Field Roster

Diana Gajda

  • Position Sprints
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • High School Salpointe Catholic
  • Hometown Tucson, Ariz.

Biography

2015 All-Pac-12 (400-meter run)
Personal Best Marks
Indoors:
200-meter dash – 24.23 (Texas Tech Classic 1/24/19)
400-meter sprint – 53.60 (NAU Friday Night Duels 1/13/17)
600-meter run - 1:29.75 (Texas Tech Shootout 2/9/18)
Outdoors:
200-meter dash – 24.25 (Arizona-ASU Dual meet 5/2/15)
400-meter sprint – 52.78 (Pac-12 Championships 5/4/19)
800-meter race – 2:17.33 (Willie Williams Classic 3/21/15) 

2019 Outdoor: Competed in seven meetings … Qualified for the NCAA championships as a member of the 4x400-meter relay team … Clocked a PR of 52.78 in the 400-meter race to finish eighth at the Pac-12 Championships … Won the 4x400 meter relay at the Desert Heat Classic … Took second at the Mt. SAC Relays with a time of 53.81 in the 400-meter.

2019 Indoor: Made three appearances … Opened the season at NAU Friday Night Duals where she won the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:41.80 and clocked a time of 55.38 in the 400-meter race to place second … Ran a PR of 24.23 in the 200-meter dash at the Texas Tech Classic.

2018 Outdoor: Competed in four meetings ... Qualified for the NCAA championships as a member of the 4x400-meter relay team ... Clocked a time of 55.40 in the 400-meter dash at the Pac-12 Championships ... Clocked a time of 54.64 in the 400-meter dash at the Desert Heat Classic ... Closed out the season with a mark of 3:34.26 in the 4x400-meter dash at the NCAA championships.

2018 Indoor: Appeared in five meetings ... Ran a time of 54.59 in the 400-meter dash at the Friday Night Duels ... Clocked a time of 1:30.30 in the 600-meter run at the New Mexico Classic ... Set a PR in the 600-meter run at the Texas Tech Shootout with a time of 1:29.75 ... Clocked a time of 54.84 in the 400-meter dash at the MPSF Championships.

2017 Outdoor: Competed in a pair of 200-meter contests and three 400-meter contests … Clocked a 24.31 in the 200-meter at the Willie Williams Classic to finish third … Tabbed a 24.53 in the 200-meter to finish in third and finished in first in the 400-meter with a 54.56 mark at the Duel in the Desert … Tabbed a second place finish at the Jim Click Shootout in the 400-meter with a 54.35 mark.

2017 Indoor: Competed in a pair of 200-meter events and five 400-meter events … Tabbed a personal best 24.63 mark in the 200 meter and tabbed a 54.29 at the Husky Classic …Clocked a 24.93 in the 200-meter and a 55.82 in the 400-meter at the Vanderbilt Invitational … Posted a personal best 53.60 in the 400-meter at the NAU Friday Night Duels to finish second … Posted a 55.35 in the 400-meter at the Armory Track Invitational … Clocked a 55.62 in the 400-meter at the MPSF Championships …

2015 Outdoor: Set a personal best at the Arizona-ASU Dual Meet in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.25 … Ran the 200-meter dash at the Pac-12 Championships and clocked a time of 24.32 … Finished in eighth place at the Pac-12 Championships in the 400-meter run with a time of 53.48, which is also a personal best … Ended the year at the NCAA West Preliminaries by clocking a time of 54.61 in the 400-meter run.

2015 Indoor: Set a personal best in the 200-meter dash at the Don Kirby Elite meet with a time of 24.69, good for 28th place … Set a personal best in the final of the Lobo Collegiate Open in the 400-meter run by clocking a time of 56.12, good for ninth place.

High School: Gajda is a graduate of Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson … Gajda was a first-team all-state honoree as a senior … At the Arizona State Championships, she earned a runner-up finish in the 400-meter sprint and a fourth-place finish in the 200 meters … She was a member of the Arizona State Championship teams her sophomore and junior years.

Personal: She is the daughter of Marian and Dorota Gajda … Both of Diana’s parents competed on track and field clubs in Poland … She speaks Polish fluently and ran at their national meet in 2012 and 2013 … She has one brother, Daniel … Pursuing a degree in physiology.
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2016-17Redshirt Sophomore

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2017-18Redshirt Junior

    Sprints
    5'6"
  • 2018-19Redshirt Senior

    Sprints
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