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Tarleton State University Athletics

2024 Track & Field Roster

Cody Vannoy
Cody Vannoy
Brady Johnson
Brady Johnson

Alessa King

  • Class Senior
  • Ht./Wt. - /
  • Hometown Houston, TX
  • High School Mayde Creek HS

Biography

Career Accolades 
Owns Tarleton’s indoor 4x400m school record (3:47.78) … Received All-WAC second team honors in the 4x400m relay at the 2022 WAC Indoor Championships … Is featured in Tarleton’s all-time top-10 record book in three individual events … Ranks ninth all-time in both the outdoor 400m (56.75) and indoor 400m (58.38) and 10th in the indoor 800m (2:27.69) ... Named to the Academic All-WAC team during the 2021 outdoor and 2022 indoor track and field seasons.

Junior (2022) 
Outdoor: Raced in six meets … Finished 12th in the 400m at the WAC Outdoor Championships … Also helped Tarleton’s 4x400m relay team place sixth at the meet … Notched a lifetime personal record of 56.75 in the 400m to place second at the SFA Invite … Posted top-10 finishes in the event at the ACU Wes Kittley Invitational and UTA Invitational … Earned a lifetime personal record in the 200m (25.59) at the Baylor Invitational … Helped Tarleton win the 4x400m relay at the SFA Invite with a season personal record of 3:45.72 … Qualified for the 94th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays as a member of Tarleton’s 4x400m relay team. 
Indoor: Competed at all four meets … Helped break Tarleton’s indoor 4x400m school record at the WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 3:47.78 … Earned All-WAC second team accolades after the team finished fourth … Placed 13th at the meet in the 400m behind a season personal record of 58.38 … Guided Tarleton’s ‘A’ 4x400m relay team to a fourth-place finish at the FasTrack Collegiate Challenge … Began her junior year by taking eighth place in the 800m in 2:27.69 at the Corky Classic. 

Sophomore (2021) 
Raced in six meets … Placed 10th and set a personal record in the 800m (2:20.13) at the WAC Championships … Helped Tarleton’s 4x400m relay team finish fourth at the conference championships in 3:52.70 … Notched a season personal record in the 400m (58.79 seconds) at the North Texas Classic … Ended the season ranked 14th in the WAC in the 400m … Posted top-10 finishes in the 800m in all four of her races … Finished second in the 800m at the Joe Gillespie Invitational in 2:23.12 … Earned a bronze medal in the 800m at the Wes Kittley Invitational (2:22.78) … Took eighth in the event at the UTA Invitational in 2:24.68 … Ran the penultimate leg of a 4x400m relay team that placed third at the meet in 3:54.33. 

Freshman (2020) 
Competed in four meets … Helped Tarleton’s 4x400m relay team place third (3:52.01) at the Lone Star Conference Indoor Championships … Placed 10th and set a personal record in the 400m (58.58) at the meet … Was a member of a 4x400m relay team that placed second at the Pittsburg State Invitational. 

Mayde Creek High School 
Lettered four times in track and field, serving as a team captain for coach Tim Ridenhour … Named Team MVP in 2019 … Also ran cross country for four years … Two-time Academic All-State honoree. 
  
Personal 
2019 graduate of Mayde Creek HS … Daughter of Jimmy King and Alicia Surrell … Has five brothers, Josiah, Jeffery, Jimmy, Jaiden and Jybradin, and four sisters, Easter, Gizelle, Jia and Jadia … Majoring in history … Born January 10. 

Historical Player Information

  • 2021Sophomore

    400m
  • 2022Junior

    Mid-Distance
  • 2023Senior

    Mid-Distance
  • 2024Senior

    Mid-Distance