Makayla Paige

Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Tewksbury, Mass.
High School:
Tewksbury

2025 NCAA Champion (Indoor, 800m)
2025 NCAA Runner- Up (Outdoor, 800m)
2025 ACC Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
2025 ACC Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year
USTFCCCA Southeast Regional Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year
Fifth-fastest 800m time in NCAA History

2025 T&F: INDOOR SEASON: Set the facility record in the 800m while winning the National Championship, earning First-Team All-America honors…Lowered her 800m school record at the NCAA Championships (2:00.39) Named the 2025 ACC Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year…Shattered the DMR school record (10:44.71) at Boston University during the BU Terrier DMR Challenge earn ACC Performer of The Week honors... Ran the seventh-fastest mile time (4:38.31) in program history at the Dick Taylor Challenge… Clocked the second-fastest 400m (52.70) in program history at the Eagle Elite Invitational while winning race… Part of the sixth and third fastest 4x400m relays teams in program history… Named ACC Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year…Named USTFCCCA Southeast Regional Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Year. 2025 T&F: OUTDOOR SEASON: Competed in six meets in the 4x400m, 400m and 800m… Lowered her school record in the 800m while finishing as the ACC Runner up… Qualified for the National Championships in the women’s 800m while becoming the first women’s runner to run a sub two minute 800m lowering her school record for the third time this season…. NCAA Runner-Up in the women's 800m, running the fifth-fastest time in NCAA History (1:58.97)

2024 T&F: INDOOR SEASON: Took part in four regular season indoor meets, plus the ACC Indoor Championships ... Ran the 600m, 800m, 1000m, 4x400m, and DMR ... Part of the 4x400m relay team that won the Dick Taylor Carolina Challenge (3:48.26) ... Finished second at the Dick Taylor Carolina Challenge in the 1,000m (2:47.35) ... Won the 600m at the Penn State National Open (1:30.18) ... Posted back to back personal records and second place finishes at the Penn State National Open (2:04.03) and Eagle Invite (2:03.92) ... Moved into the No. 2 spot on the UNC all-time performers list in the indoor 800m ... Finished third at the ACC Indoor Championships in the 800m (2:04.18) ... First Team All-ACC in the 800m ... Earned indoor Academic ALL-ACC ... OUTDOOR SEASON: Participated in six meets in the outdoor season ... Ran the 800m, 1500m, and 4x400m ... Started the outdoor season with a personal record at the Raleigh Relays in the 1,500m (4:29.33) ... Finished second at the Duke Invitational in the 800m with a personal record 2:01.92 ... Part of the 4x400m that finished second at the Duke Invitational 3:36.06 ... Set a school record in the 800m with a time of 2:00.97 at the Wake Forest Invitational ... Finished second in the 800m at the ACC Outdoor Championships (2:04.07) ... First-team All-ACC in the 800m ... Placed fifth in the NCAA East First Round to move on to the NCAA Outdoor Championship in Euegen, Oregon (2:04.34) ... Finished 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Championship (2:02.25) ... Named Second-Team All-America in the 800 ... Earned outdoor Academic All-ACC.

2023 XC: Competed in three meets … Posted a time of 21:30.8 at the ACC Championships to place 75^th … Registered in a time of 17:51.1 at the 5K Virginia Invitational … Finished 16 at the 4K Charlotte Opener (14:36.6).

2022 XC: Ran three races for the Tar Heels ... Top finish of the year was 11th at the 5K Charlotte Opener in 18:23.3 ... Also ran at the Coaching Tree Invitational and the Nuttycombe Invitational.

2022 T&F: Took part in three regular season indoor meets, plus the ACC Indoor Championships ... Ran the 800m at the Indiana Relays, Darius Dixon Invitational and the ACC Indoors ... Posted a season-best time and won the Darius Dixon 800m in 2:04.85 ... Also ran the 1000m and 600m at the Hokie Invitational earlier in the season ... Participated in three meets in the outdoor season ... Finished 13th at the Duke Invite in the 800m in 2:09.39 ... Shined at the Penn Relays, finishing fifth in the DMR in 11:05.29, ninth in the 4x800 in 8:40.28 and eighth in the 4x400 ... Finished 10th in the preliminary 800m at the ACC Outdoor Championships ... Second-team All-ACC in outdoor season in 4x400-m relay.