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Maya Vasta

Maya Vasta

  • Year:
    So.
  • Hometown:
    Forest Park, Ga.
  • High School:
    Forest Park
  • Events:
    Sprints

2020 Outdoor: Did not compete.

2020 Indoor: Upped career All-NCAC certificate haul to seven … Repeated as an all-conference performer in the 400 meters at the NCAC Championships (Feb. 28-29), thanks to runner-up and career-best time of 1:01.05 … Posted the top time of 1:01.66 in the preliminary heats of the 400 at NCACs … Part of Wooster’s all-conference 4x200 relay, that had the runner-up time of 1:47.66 at NCACs … Just missed on all-conference honors in the 4x400 relay, where Wooster logged the fourth-place time of 4:11.20 at NCACs … Ran on Wooster’s 4x200 and 4x400 at the All-Ohio Championships (Feb. 15), while individually, was 10th in the 400 at 1:01.90 … Beat out 25 other competitors to win the 200 meters at the Bob Shannon Invitational (Feb. 8) and was the runner-up in the 400 at 1:02.36 … Earned NCAC Athlete of the Week honors for Bob Shannon performances.

2019 Outdoor: Collected two more All-NCAC honors at the NCAC Championships (May 3-4) … Part of Wooster’s runner-up 4x400 (4:05.77) and third-place 4x100 (50.15) relays at the NCAC meet … Individually, placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles (1:07.25) and fifth in the heptathlon (3,451 points) at the NCAC Championships … Time of 26.42 in the 200 was the best in the NCAC heptathlon field (April 27-28) … Earned All-Ohio honors as part of Wooster’s third-place 4x400 (4:05.18) at the All-Ohio Championships (April 13) … Logged first-place finishes in the 200 (27.13), 4x100 (50.17), and 4x400 (4:09.37) at the Kenyon Spring Invitational (April 20) … Quintet-winner in Wooster-Denison Dual Meet (April 10).

2019 Indoor: Key contributor in helping Wooster to its highest finish at the NCAC Championships (March 1-2) since 1997 … Part of Wooster’s record-setting and runner-up 4x200 (1:46.22) at the NCAC Championships … Added two more All-NCAC finishes … Part of the Scots’ runner-up 4x400 (4:12.02), while individually, placed third in the 400 (1:01.20) … A week prior to NCACs, placed sixth in the conference’s pentathlon championship with 2,609 points (Feb. 24).

Prior to Wooster: State qualifier in the 300-meter hurdles as a junior at Forest Park High School … Regional qualifier and county runner-up in the 300 hurdles as a senior.

Personal: Born Sept. 3, 1999 … Daughter of Michael Vasta and Paula Sanchez … Majoring in statistical and data science with a minor in sociology.