Lextin Willis

Bio

2024-2025 at Taylor:

Indoor:

• Clocked a season-best time of 1:26.43 in the 600-meters at the IWU Midwest Classic.
• Competed in the 600-meters at the CL Championships.

Outdoor:

• Ran a season-best time of 51.96 in the 400-meters at the Little State Championships.
• Competed in the 400-meters at the CL Championships.
• NAIA Scholar-Athlete
• Academic All-Crossroads League.
• CSC Academic All-District.

2023-2024 at Taylor:

Indoor:

• Ran the 400-meters in 53.99 seconds at the Butler Invitational.
• Had Taylor’s third best 600-meters time by running a 1:25.91 at the CL Championships.
• Member of the team’s top 4x400-meter relay team at the CL Championships that ran a 3:26.53.

Outdoor:

• Logged a time of 24.45 seconds in the 200-meters at the We Fly Challenge.
• Clocked a season-best time of 52.37 seconds in the 400-meters at the Last Chance Invite.
• Took part in all three of the Trojans’ best 4x400-meter relay teams, including running the top time of 3:24.13 at the George Glass Invite.

2022-2023 at Taylor:

Indoor:

• Clocked TU’s top two times in the 600-meters, with a fastest time of 1:28.88 at the IWU Midwest Classic.

Outdoor:

• Had personal-best time of 24.32s in the 200-meters at the CL Championships.
• Recorded a season-best time of 52.25s at the CL Championships in the 400-meters.
• Ran with the 4x400-meter relay team at the CL Championships that finished with a time of 3:24.39.

Prep: Earned 12 varsity letters in the sports of cross country, swimming and track at Bremen High School … Was led by head coaches Mark Yoder and CJ Thornton … Member of the school-record-holding 4x800m relay team … Named academic all-state and all-conference … Member of the National Honor Society … Participated in Key Club … Graduated as Valedictorian.

Personal: Son of Tim and Stacy Willis … Majoring in sport management … Number one fan of the Cleveland Cavaliers.