2022-23 Track and Field Roster

Rylie Ward

  • Position Throws
  • Class Redshirt Freshman
  • Highschool Regis Jesuit (Creighton University)
  • Hometown Centennial, Colo.
  • Major Petroleum Engineering

Biography

TFRRS Profile

2022-23: Indoor Track & Field - Redshirted. Outdoor Track & Field - Thrower competed in the discus and hammer outdoors … Held season bests of 34.88m in the discus, set the CSU Pueblo Open, and 38.39m in the hammer, set at the Kit Mayer Classic.

CREIGHTON (2021-22): Enrolled at and attended Creighton University in Nebraska for one year where she studied in the Creighton Pre-Professional Medical Scholars Program … While in Nebraska earned the Presidential Academic Scholarship and the St. John Francis Regis Academic Scholarship.

HIGH SCHOOL: Completed prep work at Regis Jesuit High School in Colorado where she competed in track & field and rugby … Holds the Regis Jesuit record in the discus with a top mark of 118-5.0 set in 2021 … Was also a Colorado 5A State Finalist in the discus … Served as a track captain in 2021 and a rugby captain in 2020-21 … Earned the Regis Jesuit Raider Iron Raider Award … Tallied six varsity letters across two sports … Graduated Summa Cum Laude … Member and officer in the National Honor Society and the National Classics Honor Society … Served on the Make-A-Wish Colorado Youth Leadership Council from 2018-21 … Twice received the Aurora Scholar Award … Delegate at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women … Also a delegate at the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Social Justice … Plans to major in chemical engineering at Mines.