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Georgia Southern University Athletics

2025-26 Track & Field/XC Roster

Devine Parker

  • Position Sprints
  • Class Redshirt Freshman
  • Hometown Freeport, Bahamas
  • High School St. Anne's

Biography

Honors and Awards
First Team Outdoor All-Sun Belt (2025)
2024-25 CSC Academic All-District Team
GS President's List Spring 2025
Second-team Indoor All-Sun Belt in 2023

GS President’s List Spring 2023
2022-23 Sun Belt Conference Academic Commissioner's List
GS Dean's List Fall 2022

Seventh Year (2024-25) – Competed in three events • Set initial program record at Penn Relays as one leg of the 4x100 • Also part of Sun Belt record-setting 4x100 team at the SBC Outdoor championships • Earned a gold in the 200m, running to a 23.07, the second-best time in school history • Also placed fourth in the 100 with the third-best time in school history (11.33) • Placed 41st in the 200 and 43rd in the 100 at the NCAA East Regional.

Sixth Year (2023-24) – Did not compete in the 2023-24 season.

Senior (2022-23) – Indoor: Ran a school record time of 7.39 in the 60-meter dash to place second at the Sun Belt Championship • Ran the third-fastest time in program history in the 200 (23.65) at the South Carolina Invite • Ran on the 4x400 relay team that recorded the second-fastest time in school history (3:43.54) at the South Carolina Invite.

Before Georgia Southern: Competed for the University of Kentucky in 2018-19 and Ohio State in 2020-21 • One of the top scorers at the 2021 Big Ten indoor championships for Ohio State, scored 16 individual event points after taking runner-up honors in the 60m and 200m •  Earned all-Big Ten Conference honors while setting personal bests in both events at the championships, running a 7.36 (60m) and a 23.24 (200m) •  Qualified for the NCAA indoor championships in the 200 with the 14th fastest time nationally to earn All-American honors • Competed for Coach Pauline Davis at St. Anne’s High School in Nassau, Bahamas • Posted personal bests of 11.51 in the 100 and 23.54 in the 200 • Bahamas’ top junior sprinter as a junior in high school • Two-time silver-medalist at the CARIFTA Games in 2016 • Took bronze and silver at the CARIFTA Games in both 2017 and 2018 • Won the Caribbean Gold Medal with the Bahamas Team at the CARIFTA Championships in Curacao • World Youth & Juniors Championships qualifier • Bahamian Youth National Record holder in the 200m.

Personal: Born Devine Alana Parker Sept. 2, in the Bahamas • The daughter of Delvin and April Parker • Has a brother, Dylan, and a sister, Destin • 

Major: Plans to major in communication and leadership.


Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Fifth Year

    Sprints
  • 2023-24Sixth Year

    Sprints
  • 2024-25Transfer

    Sprints
  • 2025-26Redshirt Freshman

    Sprints