2018-19 Track and Field Roster
Roster
Christopher Bryan
- Position:
- Multi-events
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- St. Catherine, Jamaica
- High School:
- Universal School
2020 Outdoor: Season canceled due to COVID-19
2020 Indoor: Specializes in multiple events, including triple jump, long jump and the 60-meter hurdles... Competed in seven meets during the indoor season... Boasted the 2020 WAC Men's Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year... Won individual conference titles in the long jump (7.60-meters), his second-straight crown in the long jump, and he won the triple jump (15.98-meters), which marked his third-straight gold medal... The triple mark established a new personal high... Also placed second in the 60-meter hurdles (8.16) at WAC Championships... Garnered the 2020 Men's High Point Athlete award for the third-consecutive year, becoming the first-ever athlete in conference history to win this award three-straight years... In total during the indoor season, earned four gold medal finishes and one silver medal, highlighted by a performance at the Bob Timmons Classic (12/6/19) where he earned gold in both the 60-meter hurdles (8.25) and long jump (7.46m)... Claimed the top mark in the long jump (7.40-meters) at the Missouri Intercollegiate (1/17/20) and at the 2020 Adidas Classic (2/1/20) in the same event (7.35 meters)... Bryan's lone silver finish during the season came at the 2020 Jayhawk Classic where he finished second in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.17 seconds.
2019 Outdoor: Did not compete
2019 Indoor: Competed in six meets as a Roo... Boasted five, first-place efforts during the indoor season... At the WAC Indoor Championships, collected the 2020 Men's High Point Athlete and the 2020 Men's Field Outstanding Athlete... Boasted the lone individual title of any Roo at the indoor championships, taking first-place in the triple jump (15.50-meters)... Also took second in the 60-meter hurdles (8.15) and third in the long jump (7.41-meters)... Hit a personal record in the 300-meters at the K-State Wildcat Invitational (1/12/19) with a time of 36.79... In all three events he performed in, took top medalist honors at the K-State Winter Invitational (12/8/18); first in the 60-meter hurdles (10.15), first in the long jump (6.99-meters) and first in the triple jump (14.56-meters).
2018 Outdoor: Competed in seven meets for UMKC... Finished 1st in men's long jump at both the the 2018 Jimmy John's ORU Invite and 2018 Nebraska Invitational...Finished 2nd in men's triple jump with a distance of 15.78m, 3rd in the men's long jump with a distance of 7.78m, and 3rd in the 110m hurdles with a time of 14.14.
2018 Indoor: Competed in seven meets for UMKC...Finished 1st in men's triple jump with a distance of 15.55m, 1st in long jump with a distance of 7.70m, and 2nd in the Mens 60m hurdles with a time of 8.04 at the WAC Indoor Track & Field Championships... Shattered UMKC school record for indoor men's long jump with a distance of 7.70m at the WAC Indoor Track & Field Championships.
2017 Outdoor: Competed in six meets for UMKC … Darted to a 10th-place finish in the 100-meter dash at the Husker Spring Invitational with a time of 10.90 seconds … Crossed the line in 22.33 seconds at the ESU Spring Invitational … Won the gold medal in the long jump (7.42 meters) and triple jump (15.00 meters) at the WAC Outdoor Championships … Finished fourth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.56 seconds at the WAC Outdoor Championships … Leapt to a 22nd-place finish in the long jump at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary Round with a wind-aided mark of 7.58 meters.
2017 Indoor: Competed in seven meets for the Roos … Finished fourth in the 1,000-meter run at the Jayhawk Classic with a time of 3:14.82 … Won the high jump portion of the KSU Carol Robinson Pentathlon after clearing 2.04 meters in lieu of a second-place finish overall with 3,309 total points … Showed up to impress at the WAC Indoor Championships, finishing in the top-five in the 60-meter dash (7.00 seconds), long jump (7.14 meters), pole vault (3.80 meters) and shot put (10.73 meters) … Finished third in the heptathlon at the WAC Indoor Championships with a school-record 4,929 total points.
High School: Won the bronze medal at the state meet in the high jump in 2015.
Personal: Majoring in Civil Engineering, son of Christopher Bryan and Carolyn Saunders
Hometown: Spanish Town, Jamaica
