SAN ANTONIO – UTSA Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Aaron Fox announced on Monday that the Roadrunners will add local jumper John Williams III to the 2025-26 Roadrunners roster, coming to UTSA from across town at Byron P. Steele High II School.
"It’s exciting to be able to add top-notch local talent to our always-strong jump squad,” Fox said. “John is a talented jumper who has a strong growth progression and has performed well on the state and national stages.”
Williams competed in his senior season of horizontal jumps at Cibolo’s Steele High, capturing the District 29-6A, Area and Region IV-6A titles in the triple jump, hitting a career-best 15.47m (50-9.25) measurement during the regional meet at San Antonio’s Heroes Stadium in April – breaking the city, area and regional records in the event on his path to a bronze-medal performance at the UIL 6A State Track and Field Championships in Austin. Registering the third-longest jump in Texas and 10th in the nation, his performances this spring earned an invitation to The Jump Games in Ocean Springs, Mississippi in late May, where he garnered third in the field. After winning the Comets Hill Country Championships in June, Williams qualified to compete nationally at the Nike U20 Outdoor Nationals in Eugene, Oregon, registering a 12th-place finish at the national meet. Williams also earned the silver medal in March at the 97th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. In long jump, Williams was also the District 29-6A runner-up, hitting a personal-best 6.91m (22-8) during the Hill Country Championships.
Before Steele, he attended North Dakota’s Minot North High School, where he also competed in sprints and earned the triple jump silver medal at the NDHSAA 1A State Outdoor Track and Field Championships as a junior, after winning the West Region championship in the event. That season during indoors, Williams was third in triple at the 1A State Championships. He won the 1A State title in the triple jump as a sophomore in 2023 with a measurement of 14.15m (46-5).
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