SAN ANTONIO – UTSA Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Aaron Fox announced on Thursday that another northern-states transfer will join the Roadrunners this year, as UTSA adds jumper/sprinter Jayden Williams to the 2025-26 roster.
"Jayden is a multi-faceted athlete who has shown growth every year of his career,” Fox said. “We’re looking forward to helping him reach his potential athletically and academically once we get him on campus this fall.”
Originally hailing from Williston, North Dakota, Williams just wrapped his sophomore season at North Dakota State. Last year, Williams earned the Summit League Outdoor Championships silver medal in the long jump with a career-best 7.65m (25-1.25) measurement, while also running the opening leg of NDSU’s 4x100-meter relay, helping the Bison to a fourth-place finish. He made his NCAA West First Round debut in 2025 with a 27th-place long jump of 7.29m (23-11). During the indoor season, Williams delivered a fifth-place Summit League Championships jump of 7.13m (23-4.75), running 6.89 for ninth in the 60-meter. Last year at the Bison Open, Williams he hit career marks of 10.59 in the 100-meter and 22.02 in the 200-meter.
Williams burst onto the season for the Bison quickly, tied the 20-year-old North Dakota State 60m record in just his fourth career meet, registering a 6.74 clocking to win the 2024 Bison Open. At the Summit Indoor Championships, he finished fifth in the 60m and eighth in the long jump on a season-best 7.01m (23-0), collecting a fifth-place long jump finish at the outdoor conference meet. He helped the Bison 4x100m squad to a fourth-place Summit Outdoor finish in his rookie season.
This also isn’t his first run in San Antonio, having competed for the Bison each of the last two seasons at the Park West Athletics Complex during the UTSA Invitational. In 2025, he collected a third-place long jump finish at 7.41m (24-3.75) and was fifth in the 100m in 2024.
Coming to Fargo as the defending North Dakota Class A State Champion in the long jump after reaching 7.02m (23-0.25) as a senior at Williston High School in 2023, he also earned the 100-meter and 200-meter Williston records and helped the school’s 4x400-meter relay to an eighth-place state finish. He was ninth at the state meet in the 100m and the long jump as a junior.
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