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2024-25 Track & Field Roster

Jaalah Puryear

  • Position Throws
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Fort Worth, Texas
  • High School Chisholm Trail HS
  • Prev School McMurry University
  • Instagram Jaalah.nicole
  • TikTok jaalahpuryear

Biography

Collegiate PRs | Indoor: WT: 16.35m; Outdoor: SP: 8.28m, HT: 53.06

TFRRS Profile
 
2024-25 SEASON AT UTA
2025 Indoor: Competed in two regular season meets … Posted a personal best of 16.35m in the weight throw at the WAC Indoor Track & Field Championships where she finished fifth overall … Finished tenth overall in the weight throw at the Texas A&M Ted Nelson Invitational.
2025 Outdoor: Competed in five regular season meets … Competed in the hammer throw at WAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships where she finished fourth overall with a throw of 53.02m … Posted a personal best of 53.06m in the hammer throw at the Michael Johnson Invitational where she finished seventh overall … Placed first overall in the hammer throw at the Bill Schmidt Invite.
 
2023-24 SEASON AT UTA
2024 Indoor: Competed in one regular season meet … Competed in the weight throw at the WAC Indoor Track & Field Championships, finishing 14th overall with an indoor season’s best throw of 15.58m.
2024 Outdoor: Competed in four regular season meets … Competed in the hammer throw at the WAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships where she finished 11th overall with a throw of 46.58m … Posted top ten finishes in the hammer throw at the 44 Farms Team Invitational (seventh – 45.09m) and the John Jacobs Invitational (eighth – 49.33m).
 
2022-23 SEASON AT McMURRY
2023 Indoor: Did not participate in any meets.
2023 Outdoor: Did not participate in any meets.
 
2021-22 SEASON AT McMURRY
2022 Indoor: Competed in one regular season meet … Posted an indoor season’s best 10.53m in the weight throw at the Wendy’s Pittsburg State Invitational.
2022 Outdoor: Competed in ten regular season meets … Won the gold medal in the hammer throw with a mark of 49.58m at the American Southwest Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships … Posted a personal best of 8.28m in the shot put at the Trinity Invite … Finished second overall in the hammer throw at the HSU Invitational.
 
HIGH SCHOOL
2021 graduate of Chisholm Trail High School in Fort Worth, Texas.
 
PERSONAL
Born December 26, 2002 … Daughter of Jessica and Jason Puryear … Has six siblings, Davion, Jazmin, Tyler, Chance, Riley and Kingston … Kinesiology major.
 
UPDATED: 9/29/25