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The fastest woman alive in Antigua and Barbuda set a new 100m mark with 11.01 at NCAA East First Round in Jacksonville, Florida.
Florida State senior Joella Lloyd has once again rewritten the record books, clocking 11.01 seconds to break her own national 100m record while advancing to the NCAA Division I East First Round semifinals at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
The performance improves on the national record of 11.06 seconds that Lloyd set back in 2024 in which placed 4th NCAA Championships in Lexington, Kentucky, continuing an exceptional 2025 campaign for the Antigua and Barbuda sprinter who has made breaking her own records a habit.
Lloyd’s latest record comes after she already lowered her national indoor 60m record to 7.13 seconds in her season opener back in February, improving on her previous mark of 7.15 set at the 2021 SEC Championships while competing for Tennessee.
The former Lady Vol now holds multiple national records for Antigua and Barbuda across indoor and outdoor events. Her indoor collection includes the 60m (7.13) and 200m (23.38), while outdoors she owns both the 100m and 200m marks.
Her breakthrough 11.06 performance in 2024 was the time that launched her international career, securing a third-place finish in her heat at the NCAA Division I East First Round and officially earning her a spot at the Olympic Games in Paris, where she competed in the Women’s 100m event.
With her new 11.01 national record, Lloyd has also qualified for the World Championships in Tokyo, adding another major international competition to her growing resume.
Speaking to Observer media, Lloyd said, “I am feeling extremely blessed with being able to lower my time to 11.01. It was a huge gamble transferring schools at one last season of eligibility, but it has been working out so far. I would say that trusting in God’s timing and trusting in my training and like my coach has been a huge part of my success and just the support that I’ve been getting from family, friends, people who have been with me on the journey. So yeah, I’m grateful and I am blessed.”
Now with her new 11.01 national record, Lloyd has positioned herself as one of the top contenders heading into the later rounds of the NCAA championships. Running with a 1.6 m/s tailwind, she finished fourth in the semifinals behind Florida State teammate Shenese Walker (10.98), Ohio State’s Leah Bertrand (10.99), and South Carolina’s JaMeesia Ford (11.00). She will be back in action on Earlier in the year you broke the 60m record, now you have broken the 100m record again! She will be in action again when the Championship Semifinals resumes from 11-14 June in Eugene, Oregon.
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