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2024-25 Women's Track and Field Roster

Franchesca Smith

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Bloomington
  • Hometown Chicago, Ill.

Biography

Has earned three letters (2022, 2023, 2024) 

Career Bests
60m -- 8.47 (February 7-8, 2025, Keck Select)
200m -- 27.39 (April 21-22, 2023, Meet of Champions)
Triple jump -- 36' 10.25", 11.23m (March 28-29, 2025, Redbird Challenge)

Conference Awards
All-CCIW (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Indoor All-CCIW
  • Triple jump - 35’ 3.75” - 5th (2023)
  • Triple jump - 35’9.25” - 7th (2024)
Outdoor All-CCIW
  • Triple jump - 35’ 7.75” - 5th (2022)
  • Triple jump - 37' 2.50" - 3rd (2023)
  • Triple jump - 35’3.75” - 6th (2024)
  • Triple jump - 35'4.5" - 8th (2025)
Academic Awards
Academic All-CCIW (2023, 2024, 2025)
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2023)

2024-25: Had indoor bests of 8.47 in the 60m and 10.98m in the triple jump … Finished 11th at the CCIW Indoor Championships in triple jump … Had an outdoor best of 11.23m in the triple jump … Earned All-CCIW honors outdoors by finishing eighth in the triple jump at the CCIW Outdoor Championships … Winter and Spring Academic All-CCIW ...


2023-24: Had indoor bests of 8.50 in the 60m, 27.88 in the 200m, and 35' 9.25" in the triple jump … Had outdoor bests of 13.47 in the 100m and 10.76m in the triple jump … Earned a pair of All-CCIW honors in the triple jump with a seventh-place finish indoors and sixth outdoors … Winter and Spring Academic All-CCIW … 

2022-23: Earned All-CCIW honors in the triple jump with a fifth-place finish at the CCIW Indoor Championships and a third place finish at the outdoor conference championships ... Had an indoor best of 35' 4.5" in the triple jump ... Had an outdoor best of 27.39 in the 200m, 37’ 2.50” in the triple jump, and 4:15.01 in the 4x400m relay … Academic All-CCIW … 

2021-22: Earned All-CCIW honors in the triple jump with a fifth-place finish at the CCIW Outdoor Championships ... Had an indoor best of 35’ 7.75” in the triple jump … Had an outdoor best of 36' 0.75” in the triple jump ... 

HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Bloomington High School ... Letterwinner in basketball, track and field, and cross country … Big 12 athletic and academic award, 2019-2021 … Field event MVP, 2018 … Sportsmanship award, 2021 … Member of the 2019-2020 Big 12 indoor track and field team championship team … Member of the 2020-2021 Big 12 outdoor track and field team championship team … Record holder at Pontiac Township HS in the triple jump, 2018 … Member of the Student Council, Key Club, and Alternative Break Club … 

PERSONAL: Majoring in political science with a minor in psychology at Illinois Wesleyan … President of IWU's Black Student Athlete Associaition ... Other interests include shopping, watching Netflix, hanging out with friends, going to the gym, and amusement parks …

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

  • 2024-25Senior