KeAyla Dove

Position:
Throws
Class:
Senior
High School:
Cypress Lakes HS
Hometown:
Houston, Texas
Prev School:
Sam Houston State
Pronounced:
KEY-A-Luh

TFFRS Bio

Personal Bests

Shot Put	18.95m
Weight Throw	16.21m
Discus	46.64m

Honors and Awards
• School Record Holder (Shot Put - Indoor & Outdoor)
• American Athletic Conference Indoor Championships Meet Record Holder (Shot Put - Indoor)
• American Athletic Conference Record Holder (Shot Put - Indoor)
• 2024 NCAA Second-Team All-American (Indoor, Shot Put)
• 2024 Indoor American Athletic Conference Champion (Shot Put)
• 2023 NCAA Second-Team All-American (Outdoor, Shot Put)
• 2023 Outdoor Conference USA Champion (Shot Put)
• 2023 Outdoor All-Conference USA (Shot Put)
• 2023 Conference USA Outdoor Championships Female Field Performer of the Meet
• 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships Qualifier (Shot Put)
• 2023 Indoor All-Conference USA (Shot Put)
• 2022 NCAA First-Team All-American (Indoor, Shot Put)
• 2022 WAC Indoor Champion (Shot Put)
• 2022 Outdoor All-WAC (Shot Put)

2024 Outdoors
Did not compete for UNT ... Competed as an unattached athlete.

2024 Indoors
Earned second team All-America honors placing 11th in the shot put at the NCAA Indoor Championships ... Became the second person in program history to have multiple NCAA All-American honors, joining Steven White ... Was the first indoor All-American for UNT since 2006 ... Posted a mark of 18.24 meters that won her the AAC Championship in shot put and was the No. 5 throw in the nation heading into the NCAA Championships ... The throw also improved her own indoor school record, the AAC indoor record and set the championships meet record ... Also won shot put at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational, Robert Platt Invitational and Leonard Hilton Memorial Invite ... Took ninth in the lone weight throw competition she competed in with a mark of 16.21 meters at the Robert Platt Invitational ... Twice named AAC Female Thrower of the Week.

2023 Outdoors
Earned second-team All-America honors in the shot put with a 10th-place finish at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships ... Launched a shot put of 62-02.25 (18.95m) to fly over a meter past both her school record and Memphis' Susan King's Conference USA mark of 17.84 that had stood since 2008 ... Was named Female Field Performer of the Meet of the CUSA Championships after winning the event ... Took first place in shot put in five of the nine events she competed in during the outdoor season ... Set the five best marks in shot put in program history in her first outdoor season as a member of the Mean Green ... The highest-ranked shot put finisher in school history and the first ever NCAA All-America thrower for UNT ... Set her personal best in the discus throw at the North Texas Classic with a mark of 46.64m (153-0).

2023 Indoors
Qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in shot put for the second time in her career ... Broke the program record for indoor shot put on her first throw for North Texas with a mark of 54-8 ... Would surpass her previous record multiple times during the season, eventually finishing the season with a throw of 58-3.75 in a runner-up finish at the conference meet ... Was named Conference USA Women's Field Athlete of the Week twice.

Prior to UNT
Was an all-conference performer at Sam Houston State University ... Won the 2022 WAC Indoor Championship and placed second in the shot put at the WAC Outdoor Championships ... Became an All-American with a fifth-place finish at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships with a mark of 57-0.75.

High School
Dove signed with Sam Houston State out of Cypress Lakes HS ... She was ranked third in the state and 18th in the country in the shot put as well as eighth in the state in the discus for the class of 2020 ... She turned in career bests in the shot put (45 feet, 6 inches) and discus (140 feet, 7 inches) during her junior season at Cypress Lakes ... A four-time qualifier in the shot put at the UIL 6A Track and Field State Championships ... Earned all-state honors as a freshman and sophomore and took second as a junior.