Personal Records
Indoor
60 meter hurdles: 8.14 (2020 VMI Team Challenge)
Heptathlon: 3,895 points (2020 VMI Winter Relays)
Outdoor
110 meter hurdles: 14.48 (High School)
Decathlon: 2,594 points (2019 MEAC Outdoor)
Career Statistics
2019-20: Indoor: Competed in sprints, hurdles and multi-events … Posted a PR of 8.14 seconds in the 60 hurdles at the VMI Team Challenge, place second … Recorded 3,895 points, a PR, in the heptathlon a the VMI Winter Relays … Notched a fifth-place finish in the 60 hurdles at the MEAC Indoor Championships.
Outdoor: Season was canceled due to COVID-19.
2018-19: Indoor: Competed in the multis for NSU … Was 10th in the long jump at Virginia Tech … Finished fourth in the heptathlon at the CNU Captains Invitational, with a personal-best 3,649 points … Finished sixth in the 60m hurdles at the JDL DMR Invitational with a top time of 8.51 (PR) in the prelims.
Outdoor: Placed 11th in the Virginia Grand Prix 400m hurdles (PR, 59.11 seconds) … Shook off an injury to finish sixth in the decathlon at the MEAC Outdoor Championships, with 2,594 points … Won the decathlon 100m dash in 11.02 seconds.
High School: VHSL 5A state indoor champion in the 55-meter hurdles his senior year … Also advanced to the state indoor meet in the triple jump and with Bethel’s 4x200 and 4x400 meter relay teams … State outdoor meet qualifier in the 110 and 300-meter hurdles and with the 4x100 relay later in his senior year … Placed fifth in the state in the 300 hurdles after finishing as runner-up at the region meet (PR, 39.25).
Personal: Byron Lee Carson Jr. was born on Dec. 9, 1998 … Son of Byron and Belinda Carson … Father is an NSU alumnus … Majoring in interdisciplinary studies.
