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North Carolina A&T

2021-22 Track & Field Roster

Kamaya Debose-Epps

Kamaya Debose-Epps

  • Position:
    Sprints
  • Height:
    5-5
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    Glenn
  • Hometown:
    Kernersville, N.C.

Summary

Biography

Excellent sprinter who has helped the Aggies have tremendous success at the indoor and outdoor MEAC championships along with success at the NCAA championship meets … Has been excellent in the 60, 100 and 200 as an indoor and outdoor runner … Another local product that the track and field coaching staff has developed into a star … Should be a contender for qualifying for NCAA indoor and outdoor championships … Has competed in 19 meets in her career with one NCAA outdoor championship appearance and one All-American honor … Has 18 top-5 finishes and seven first-place finishes in her career … Also has one MEAC championship. 

2020 Outdoor Season: Season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

2019-20 Indoor Season: Competed in six meets as a sophomore … Finished fifth in the 60 meters at the Jim Green Invitational hosted by the University of Kentucky with a time of 7.49 on Jan. 11 … Placed third in the 200 and fourth in the 4x400 at the Hokie Invitational hosted by Virginia Tech by running a 24.27 in the 200 and helping the 4x400 team run a 3:49.59, Jan. 24-25 … Ran a personal-best 7.36 in the 60m at the Texas Tech Invitational to finish seventh on Feb. 1 … Ran the second-fastest 60m prelim time at Texas Tech at 7.41 … Placed fourth at the South Carolina Invitational in 23.53 on Feb. 8 … Helped the Aggies win the 2020 MEAC Indoor Track and Field championship, Feb. 27-29, by placing fourth in the 60 with a time of 7.39 to help the Aggies earn five points in the event. 

2019 Outdoor Season: Competed in seven meets as a freshman … Had her first career top-five finish in outdoor by finishing third at the High Point University VertKlasse Meeting with a third-place finish in the 100m in 11.73 on March 23 … Secured her first two career outdoor wins at the Phoenix Invitational at Elon University with wins in the 100m (11.91) and the 200m (24.59) on April 6 … Earned two more wins at the Aggie Invitational on April 12-13 by finishing first in the 100m (11.61) and the 4x100 (45.12) … Another victory came at the LSU Alumni Gold meet on April 20 when she ran an 11.64 in the 100m … At the same meet, she and her 4x100 teammates finished third in 43.91 … Ran a personal-best 11.32 in the 100m at the MEAC outdoor championships at N.C. A&T’s Irwin Belk Track, May 2-4, to finish fifth to post four points toward helping the Aggies win the conference title … Picked up six more points for the Aggies at the MEAC meet by finishing third in the 200m in 23.14 … Her 4x100 team scored 10 more points for the champs by winning the event in 43.45 … Qualified for the NCAA Division I East Regional Preliminary Round in the 100, 200 and 4x100 …Ran a personal-best 23.10 in the 200 at the NCAA east prelims on May 23 … Qualified for the NCAA outdoor championships in the 200 and 4x100 … Became a first-team All-American in the 4x100 by helping her team finish sixth in the nation on June 8 with a time of 43.09. 

2018-19 Indoor Season: Competed in six meets as a freshman … In her first ever collegiate meet, she won the 60m in 7.56 at the JDL College Kick-off Classic at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Dec. 1  … Also had the second-fastest prelim time at the same meet in 7.65 … Placed second at the Virginia Tech Invitational in the 200m with a time of 24.58 on Jan. 12 … Placed second in the 60m in 7.53 at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational on Feb. 9 … Had a sixth-place finish at the MEAC indoor championships in the 60m with a time of 7.59 to help the Aggies earn three points toward winning the MEAC championship … Also had a sixth-place finish in the 200m in 24.57 at the same meet.

High School: Competed at Glenn High School in Kernersville, N.C. … Won the N.C. USATF junior championships in the 100 and 200m with a time of 11.87 and 24.35 respectively as a senior on June 24 … Finished seventh in the North Carolina Class 4A in the 100 with a time of 12.23 … Won the 100m nine times as a senior … Placed eighth in the state in the 200m as a senior (24.90) … Ran a personal-record 7.16 in the 55m at the N.C. High School Athletic Association championship meet to finish third in the state on Feb. 10 … Won the Forsyth County Indoor championship in 55m (7.27) and the 300m (41.12 PR). 
 
 

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Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Sprints
    5'5"
  • 2020-21Junior

    Sprints
    5'5"
  • 2021-22Senior

    Sprints
    5'5"