Peyton Stewart

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Position:
Sprints
Class:
Junior
High School:
Lawrence North
Hometown:
Indianapolis, Ind.

BALL STATE TOP PERFORMANCES – TFRRS Career Stats Link
Indoor PRs: 60m - 7.48 (2/24/18) | 200m - 25.09 (2/2/19) | 300m - 42.40 (12/3/16)
Outdoor PRs: 100m - 11.55 (5/13/17) | 200m - 24.63 (4/13/18)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- Placed 36th in the 100m dash at the 2017 NCAA East Preliminary Outdoor Championships
- 2017 MAC Outdoor Champion - 100m
- First Team All-MAC (Outdoor: 2017 in 100m)
- Second Team All-MAC (Indoor: 2018 in 60m | Outdoor: 2018 in 100m & 4x100m Relay & 2019 in 4x100m Relay)
- Ran the opening leg for the program-record setting 4x100m relay (outdoors) which clocked in at 45.20 at the MAC Outdoor Championships (May 11, 2019)
- Fourth-best time in program history in the outdoor 100m dash at 11.55 on May 13, 2017
- Fourth-best time in program history in the indoor 60m dash at 7.48 on Feb. 24, 2018
- Four-time MAC Track & Field Distinguished Scholar Athlete (Indoor: 2018 & 2019 | Outdoor: 2017 & 2018)
- Six-time Academic All-MAC (Indoor: 2017, 2018 & 2019 | Outdoor: 2017, 2018 & 2019)
- MAC Track Athlete of the Week on Dec. 4, 2018

2019 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD (Sr.): Competed in five meets … Second Team All-Mid-American Conference in the 4x100m relay ... Academic All-MAC ... placed seventh in the 100m at the MAC Outdoor Championships (May 11) with a season-fast time of 11.82 … ran the opening leg for the school-record setting 4x100m relay which placed second at the MAC Outdoor Championships (May 11) with a time of 45.20 … placed second in the 100m at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational (April 8) at 11.97.

2019 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (Sr.): Competed in six meets ... Academic All-MAC and MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete … placed fifth in the 60m at the MAC Indoor Championships (Feb. 23) with a time of 7.51 …ran a season-fast 60m of 7.49 in the prelims of the MAC Championships (Feb. 22) … won the 60m at the BGSU Opener (Dec. 1) with a time of 7.52 which helped her earn MAC Track Athlete of the Week honors for the first time in her career ... won the 60m at the Meyo Invitational (Feb. 2) with a time of 7.50, while also logged a career-fast 200m time of 25.09 on the opening day of the meet (Feb. 1).

2018 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD (Jr.): Competed in seven meets … Second Team All-Mid-American Conference in 100m and 4x100m relay … Academic All-MAC … placed second in the 100m at the MAC Outdoor Championships (May 12) with a season-fast time of 11.66 ... also ran anchor for the second-place 4x100m relay which crossed the line in 45.57 at the league championships ... ran anchor for the program-record setting 4x100m relay which clocked in at 45.28 at the War Eagle Challenge (April 20) ... placed second in the 100m (11.75) and recorded a career-fast 200m time of 24.63 to place 10th at the Ball State Challenge (April 13) ... member of the first-place 4x100m relay which timed out at 49.13 at the Stan Lyons Invitational (March 17).

2018 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (Jr.): Competed in six meets … Second Team All-MAC in the 60m ... Academic All-MAC and MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete ... placed second in the 60m at the MAC Indoor Championships with a career-fast time of 7.48, which is also the fourth-fastest individual time in program history ... won the 60m dash at the Indiana Wesleyan University Invitational (Jan. 20) and at the Akron Invitational (Feb 3) with times of 7.61 and 7.55, respectively ... opened her junior campaign with a career-fast 200m time of 25.19 at the Kentucky Invitational (Jan. 13).

2017 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD (So.): Competed in seven meets … First Team All-Mid-American Conference … Academic All-MAC and MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete … placed 36th at the NCAA East Preliminary Championships (May 25) in the 100m dash with a time of 11.85 … first Ball State sprinter to qualify for NCAA competition in the 100m dash since Amber Williams in 2009 … won the MAC Outdoor Championship (May 13) in the 100m dash with a career-fast time of 11.55, which is the fourth-best individual effort in program history … with the effort, she became Ball State's first outdoor individual champion since the 2012 season and earned the program’s 10th all-time title in the 100m dash … was also a member of the seventh-place 4x100m relay which crossed the line in 46.22 at the MAC Championships … won the 100m dash at the Ball State Challenge (April 15) with a time of 11.74 … member of the first-place 4x400m relay which clocked in at 3:58.50 at the Stan Lyons Invitational (March 18) ... placed 10th in the 200m dash at the Southern Miss Open (April 29) with a season-best time of 24.84.

2017 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (So.): Competed in six meets … Academic All-MAC … placed ninth in the 60m dash at the MAC Championships (Feb. 24) with a time of 7.65 … finished the season ranked fourth on the MAC performance list with a season-fast 60m dash time of 7.52 set in an event victory at the Chipotle Marshall Invitational (Feb. 11) … also won the 60m dash at the Mastodon Opener (Dec. 3) and WMU Ice Breaker (Jan. 7) ... posted a career-best 200m dash time of 25.48 at the Kentucky Invitational (Jan. 14) … placed fourth at the Mastodon Opener in the 300m dash after posting a career-best time of 42.40.

2016 OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD (Fr.): Competed in seven meets … placed 20th in the 100m dash at the MAC Outdoor Championships (May 13) after suffering an injury during the race … won the 100m dash at the Ball State Challenge (April 16) with a season-fast time of 11.80 … also finished third in the 200m dash at the meet with a season-fast time of 24.74 … placed second in the 100m dash at the Billy Hayes Invitational with a finals time of 11.83 … member of the first-place 4x400m relay which clocked in at 3:59.91 at the Stan Lyons Invitational (March 19) … ran on first-place 4x100m relays at the Ball State Challenge and Georgia Invitational (April 30).

2016 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (Fr.): Competed in seven meets … placed fourth in the 60m dash at the MAC Indoor Championship (Feb. 27) with a season-fast time of 7.56 … it marked the best finish for a Ball State sprinter in a MAC Indoor Championship race since the 2009 season … also placed 19th in the 200m dash at the league meet with a time of 25.56 … won the 60m dash at the Mastodon Opener (Dec. 5) with a finals time of 7.87 and the GVSU Big Meet (Feb. 13) with a finals time of 7.58 … also turned in a season-fast 200m dash time of 25.53 at the GVSU Big Meet to place eighth in the event.

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned four letters in track & field for coach Hilary Church at Lawrence North … First Team All-State and First Team All-Conference selection as a freshman, junior and senior … placed third in the 100m dash at the IHSAA State Meet as a senior with a time of 11.73 … also won the sectional title (11.78) and placed second at the conference meet (11.85) in the 100m dash her senior year … placed eighth in the 200m dash at the state meet as a senior with a time of 24.99 … both her 100m dash time (11.73) and 200m dash time (24.99) at the state meet her senior season are school records … a team captain all four years, she was also named the program’s best all-around performer as a junior and senior … named First Team All-Academic as a senior … also earned three letters in basketball at Lawrence North, helping guide the Wildcats to semi-state in 2014.

PERSONAL: Daughter of Weylin and Crystal Stewart … full name is Peyton Linnea Steward … has three sisters, Kaaylah, Kyla and Ashton … her father Weylin played football at Butler and her uncle Marlin was a wrestler at Missouri … born June 29, 1997 in Indianapolis, Ind. … maintains a 3.603 grade point average as an exercise science major.