Pueblo, CO — Fayetteville State University's M'Smyra Seward landed fourth in the long jump at the 2023 NCAA DII National Outdoor Track & Field Championships held at the Colorado State University Pueblo ThunderBowl.

"Shea" Seward, a native of Youngsville, NC, earned her third NCAA All-American honor with a leap of 6.15 meters (20-2 1/4) with her third jump in the preliminaries. Her progressions were 6.10m in the first jump and 6.05 with the second. She went 6.13 with her first jump of the finals and scratched on her last two attempts. 

Sea, a recent FSU graduate, earn her first All-American honor at the May 2022 Outdoor Track & Field Nationals with a second-place leap in the long jump. Her second honor was in March of 2023 at the Indoor National Championship with fifth-place finish in the long jump.