2025 Men's Track and Field Roster
Biography
FMU: Second-year athlete....College Sports Communicators XC/T&F Academic All-District Team 2023-24 and 2022-23....Chi Alpha Sigma national college athlete honor society....Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award 2023, 2024....Earned a "Top Undergraduate Poster" award at the university's 2024 Research & Exhibition Day (RED) for his work "Exploring the Relationship between Curiosity and Engineering Design Space Exploration"....FMU Swamp Fox Athletic-Academic Honor Roll 2022 (spring), 2023 (spring, fall), 2024 (spring)....Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll 2022, 2023 (spring), 2024 (spring)....Student-Athlete Advisory Committee 2022-23.
PERSONAL:
- Born in Columbia, SC
- Graduate of Spring Valley High School, where he played baseball for coach Robert Hendrix
- Nickname is Drew
PERSONAL FAVORITES:
- As a child what you wanted to be when you grew up: Automotive Designer
- How you got your nickname: It's short for Andrew
- Favorite Superhero: Batman
- Favorite Athlete: Jackie Bradley Jr.
- Favorite Sports Teams: Los Angeles Lakers, Atlanta Braves, South Carolina Gamecocks
- Favorite Movie or TV Show: The Batman ; Dragon Ball
- Favorite Food: Buffalo Wings
- Favorite Vacation Spot: Charleston, SC
- Favorite Musical Artist: Pierre Bourne
- Favorite Thing About FMU: I enjoy that the campus is easy to navigate and the school is not too big so it's more of a community feel; The professors here are also great and very helpful
- Favorite Off-Field/court Activities: Hanging out with friends and family, trying new restaurants, and playing video games
- Goals for Upcoming Season: My goals for this season are to run under 23 sec in the 200m, and run under 11.5 sec in the 100m; I also want to make it to the conference championship in the javelin
- Why you first chose your sport: My original sport is baseball where I played center field and I have always had a lot of athletic ability, so I decided to run track
- Biggest mental challenge in your sport: Trying to get better results than your last meet
- Interesting Notes: I know how to produce beats
- Brush With Greatness: I threw a javelin 37.90 meters my first time-ever throwing it at a meet
Historical Player Information
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2022Freshman
sprints
0 lbs
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2023Sophomore
sprints, javelin
6'0"
158 lbs
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2024Junior
sprints, javelin
6'0"
143 lbs
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2025Senior
javelin, sprints
6'1"
162 lbs
