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2024-25 Track & Field/Cross Country Roster

COASTAL_CAROLINA_UNIVERSITY

Kayla Ulmer

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Event Jumps/Hurdles
  • Hometown Blythewood, S.C.
  • High School Blythewood

Biography

HONORS 
2025 CSC Academic All-District
 
     CCU Personal Bests      
 Indoor
 Long Jump       5.24m
 Triple Jump      11.90m     
 Outdoor
 Long Jump     5.08m (-0.1)
 Triple Jump    12.80m (0.0)    


KAYLA ULMER TFRRS PAGE

2025 (Graduate)
Outdoor Season

  • Regional qualifier in the triple jump
  • Finished second in the triple jump at the Charlotte Invitational (12.55 meters)
  • Third-place finish in the triple jump at the Tom Jones Invitational (12.67 meters)
  • Won the triple jump at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational with a mark of 12.80 meters, ranking second in school history
  • Won the triple jump at the Myrtle Beach Collegiate Challenge (12.47 meters)
Indoor Season
  • Finished fifth in the triple jump at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championship (12.34 meters)
  • Posted a mark of 12.36 meters in the triple jump at the Bob Pollock Invitational, ranking third in school history
  • Finished third in the triple jump at the Clemson Opener (12.14 meters)

2024 (Senior)
Outdoor Season
  • Finished third in the triple jump at the USC Outdoor Open (12.13 meters)
  • Third-place finish in the triple jump at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational (12.24 meters)
Indoor Season
  • Second-place finish in the triple jump at the Carolina Challenge (11.35 meters)

2023 (Junior)
Outdoor Season

  • Did not compete in a meet during the outdoor season
  • Earned a spot on the Dean's List (3.5 GPA or higher) for the 2023 spring semester


Indoor Season

  • Did not compete in a meet during the indoor season
  • Earned a spot on the Dean's List (3.5 GPA or higher) for the 2022 fall semester



2022 (Sophomore)
Outdoor Season

  • Competed in five meets over the outdoor season, taking part in both the long jump and triple jump events
  • Recorded three top-15 place finishes in the triple jump on the season
  • Finished 15th overall in the triple jump at the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a mark of 11.36 meters (-1.1)
  • Placed 15th in the triple jump with a distance of 11.06 meters (2.4) at the North Florida Collegiate Invitational
  • Also finished 15th in the triple jump with a distance of 11.17 meters (0.3) at the USC Open
  • Finished 24th in the triple jump at the UF Tom Jones Memorial Invitational with a mark of 11.23 meters (-0.7)
  • Posted a season-best mark of 5.08 meters (-0.1) in the long jump event at the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships, placing 25th overall
  • Also competed in the long jump at the North Florida Collegiate Invitational, turning in a leap of 4.92 meters (0.8)


Indoor Season

  • Did not compete during the indoor season


2021 (Freshman)
Outdoor Season

  • Competed in seven meets over the outdoor season, competing in the long jump and triple jump events
  • Turned in a season-best mark of 12.22 meters (2.1) in the triple jump at the Gamecock Invitational, placing fourth overall
  • Finished third in the triple jump event at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational (12.05 meters) and the CCU Chanticleer Challenge (11.79 meters)
  • Placed fourth in the triple jump event with a distance of 11.60 meters at the Weems Baskin Relays
  • Recorded a leap of 11.78 meters in the triple jump at the Gamecock Invitational
  • Also competed in the long jump at the Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational


Indoor Season

  • Competed in four meets over the indoor season
  • Turned in a season-best mark of 5.24 meters in the long jump event to finish 28th overall at the 2021 Sun Belt Indoor Track & Field Championships
  • Placed ninth in the triple jump event at the conference championship meet with a distance of 11.90 meters
  • Finished third with a jump of 11.18 meters in the triple jump at the Gamecock Opener
  • Recorded a ninth-place finish in the triple jump at both the Liberty Elite Invitational (11.49 meters) and Bob Pollock Indoor Invitational (11.64 meters)


High School

  • Lettered in both track and volleyball in high school
  • Finished the 2020 season ranked No. 1 in the state of South Carolina and No. 21 nationally in the triple jump 
  • Was all-state in the 400-meter hurdles in 2018
  • Also all-region in both the triple jump and the 400-meter hurdles in 2018
  • Named the track & field team MVP in 2018
  • Set her high school's record in the triple jump at 38'9"
  • Also holds the high school record in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:04
  • Helped lead her Chapin High School track & field team to a 2017 district championship
  • A key part in the Chapin High School volleyball team winning the district championship in 2017
  • Guided Blythewood High School to a 2018 volleyball regional championship title
  • Was named the team's Newcomer of the Year (2017) and earned the Coaches' Award (2018) in volleyball
  • Brother, Anthony Ulmer Jr, plays football at UTEP
  • Father is in the Army
  • Was born in Kentucky but has also lived in Texas

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

    Jumps/Hurdles
    5'8"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Jumps/Hurdles
    5'8"
  • 2022-23Junior

    Jumps/Hurdles
    5'8"
  • 2023-24Senior

    Jumps/Hurdles
    5'8"
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    Jumps/Hurdles
    5'8"