Tyler Ford

Position:
Sprints/Jumps
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Raleigh, N.C.
High School:
Cary Academy

Ford's PRs
• 100- 11.80
• 200- 24.84
• Long Jump- 20-11

Sophomore Year: Competed in long jump, 60 and 200 during indoor season, led team in the 60 with a time of 7.51, which she ran at Indoor ACC Championships • Also placed eighth in the long jump at Indoor ACC Championships • Competed in 100, 200 and long jump during outdoor season • Placed sixth in the long jump and ran personal best 11.88 in the 100 at ACC Outdoor Championships • Competed at NCAA Regionals in long jump

Freshman Year: NCAA national qualifier in the 4x100-meter relay • NCAA East Regional qualifier in the 4x100 relay and the long jump • All-ACC Academic and All-NCAA Academic honors • Ran the indoor 60-meter dash in 7.59 seconds • Earned a top-five finish in an outdoor meet for her 6.12-meter long jump. Prep: Four-year track performer •Two-time all-conference selection • Back-to-back NCISAA long jump state champion • Added the triple jump championship as a senior •Set the NCISAA triple jump state record in 2008 • Named conference MVP as a senior •Earned all-state honors as a freshman • Attended three different high schools in three different states her first three years of high school.

Personal: Journalism and mass communication major with plans to be a broadcast journalist • Enjoys reading magazines, tumbling and people.com • Admires Nastia Liukin and LoLo Jones • Lists her high school coaches, Allison McCoppin and Dick Wagner, as having the greatest influence on her athletic career • Lists the bible as her favorite book and strawberries as her favorite food • Lists "Love and Basketball" as her favorite movie and "Girlfriends" as her favorite TV show • Father, Phil, played basketball at North Carolina where he was the 1978 National Player of the Year and is Carolina's second-highest leading scorer • Tyler Smith Ford is the daughter of Phil and Traci Ford •Born June 8, 1990, in Durham, N.C.