Afia Charles Class: Junior Hometown: Greenbelt, Md. High School: Eleanor Roosevelt H.S. Height: 5-7 Event: Sprints

Personal Bests:
200M: 23.82 (Out)
400M: 52.49 (Out; school record); 54.02 (In; school record)

2013 (Junior):
-Conference USA outdoor 400M champion, 4x100 relay champion and 4x400 relay silver medalist
-All-Conference USA Indoor Second Team
-Rewrote her own school record in the indoor 400M with a personal best 54.02 at the C-USA Championships for the silver medal
-Won the 400M at the Hurricane Alumni Invitational with her best time in more than a year, 53.77
-Helped UCF break the program's sprint medley relay record (3:26.52) at the Pepsi Florida Relays
-Won gold in the 400M at the C-USA Outdoor Championships with an Antigua national record, school record and personal best 52.49
-Helped UCF's 4x400 relay tie the school record (3:36.37) to secure the silver medal at the C-USA Outdoor Championships
-Helped UCF run the No. 3 time in the country (43.48) in the 4x100 relay for a gold medal at the C-USA Outdoor Championships

2012 (Sophomore):
-Represented Antigua at the Summer Olympics in the 400M, becoming the first UCF track and field Olympian
-One of a school-record 14 competitors to represent the Knights at the NCAA East Preliminaries (5/24)
-Ran for a personal-best, school-record time of 54.17 in the 400M for a gold medal at the C-USA Indoor Championships (2/26)
-Garnered All-Conference Second Team honors at the C-USA Indoor Championships (2/26) as the first leg of the 4x400 relay, who finished with a time of 3:43.32
-Helped UCF's 4x400 relay to its best time of the season (3:41.68) at the Rod McCravy Memorial (1/28) for third place
-Posted a personal-record 38.66 in the 300M at the Virginia Tech Invitational (1/13)
-Opened the season with a first-place finish in the 400m with a season-best time of 53.73 at the Black and Gold Challenge (3/17)
-Scored points at the C-USA Championships (5/13) with a fifth-place time of 54.03 in the 400M

2011 (Freshman):
-Broke the freshman record and the school record in the 400M preliminaries at the C-USA Outdoor Championships (5/14) with a time of 53.6
-Scored points in the 400m finals at the C-USA Outdoor Championships
-Set a personal best in the 200M at the UCF Twilight (5/5) with a time of 24.20
-Medaled in the 400M at the CARIFTA Games (5/24)
-Part of the indoor 4x400 relay team that finished first place, automatically qualifying for NCAA Nationals and set a school record at the Notre Dame LCM (3/5) with a time of 3:34
-Ran a personal best time of 38.91 in the 300M at the Hokie Indoor Invitational (1/21)
-Recorded a personal best time of 56.15 in the 400M at the Tyson Invite (2/11)
-Scored points in the 400M at the C-USA Indoor Championships
-Named to USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

Prior to UCF:
-In her junior season, anchored the fastest 4x100 meter relay team on the east coast
-As a freshman, set the national record for SMR relay

Personal:
-Majoring in health sciences -- pre clinical
-Her mother, Ruperta, was a sprinter for Antigua at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics