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2024-25 Track & Field Roster

Profile

  • Sprints
    Position
  • Graduate Student
    Class
  • St. Thomas, Jamaica
    Hometown
  • Excelsior HS
    High School
  • South Dakota
    Previous School
Francis, Demar
Demar Francis
Sprints
Position
Graduate Student
Class
St. Thomas, Jamaica
Hometown

Summary

Biography

• 2025 World Indoor Championship Silver Medalist (4x400 relay)
• 2025 2x NCAA Indoor All-American (200m, 4x400 relay)
• 2025 Indoor Big 12 Champion (4x400 relay)
• 2025 Indoor Big 12 Silver Medalist (200m)
• 2025 Indoor All-Big 12 (400m)
• 2024 All-American Indoor Qualifier (200m)
• 2024 Indoor Big 12 Bronze Medalist (200m)
• 2024 Indoor All-Big 12 (4x400m)
• 2023 Outdoor All-Big 12 (200m)
• 2023 NCAA Indoor All-American (4x400m relay)
• 2023 Indoor Big 12 Silver Medalist (200m)
• 2023 NCAA Indoor All-American (4x400m relay)
• 2023 NCAA Indoor Championship Qualifier (200m)
• 2023 Big 12 Silver Medalist Indoors (200m)


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2025 Indoor: Competed in all seven total meets, including qualifying to the NCAA Indoor Championships for the third year in a row ... Finished inside the top-eight in every event except one in all meets for 2025 Indoor season ... Opened the season earning Big 12 Athlete of the Week honors for gold medal finish at McFerrin 12 Degree Invite in the 200m at 20.93 ... Made his 400m and 4x400 season-debut at the Corky Classic ... Earned second gold medal finish of the season at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational ... Grabbed first and second place finishes at the Charlie Thomas Invitational in the 200m and the 4x400 ... Closed the regular season out with two silver medals at the Jarvis Scott Invite in the 200m and 4x400 ... Ran a season-best time of 20.47 in the 200m preliminary round at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, going on to earn a silver in the event ... Ran the second leg of the 4x400 relay, helping his team win gold at 3:04.78 ... Earned All-Big 12 status, finishing seventh in the 400m with a season-best time of 46.14 in the preliminary round and 46.20 in the finals ... Earned his first individual All-American status in the 200m with a seventh place finish at 21.00 ... Additionally, earned his third All-American status of his career in the 4x400 relay with a seventh place finish ... Left Virginia Beach to go compete in the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, grabbing a silver medal in the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:05.05. 

2024 Outdoor: Competed at 8 total meets, including the Big 12 and NCAA Championships … Ran the 400m, 200m, and 4x400m relay … Opened the season with a gold medal in the 400m at the Clyde Hart Classic … Followed up with a silver in the 200m at the LSU Battle on the Bayou with a time of 20.63 seconds … Won another silver at the Michael Johnson Invitational in the 400m with a time of 46.59 seconds … Took home another gold medal as a part of the 4x400m relay team at the Desert Heat Classic … Set 2 new personal records in the 200m and the 400m at the Big 12 Championships with times of 20.38 seconds and 45.44 seconds respectively … Won gold in the 400m at the Big 12 Championships, and silver in the 200m.

2024 Indoor: Competed at 6 total meets, including the Big 12 and NCAA Championships … Competed in the 4x400m relay, 200m, and 400m … Took home gold in the 400m at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with a time of 46.61 seconds … Took Silver in the 200m at the McFerrin-12 Degree Invite with a time of 20.83 seconds … Finished 3rd at the Big 12 Championships in the 200m, and 6th as a part of the 4x400m relay team.

2023 Outdoor: Put up a new PR at the Big 12 Championships in the 200 prelims, running a 20.43 en route to a sixth-place All-Big 12 honor ... Finished fourth at the Michael Johnson Invitational in the quarter mile ... Winner of the 4x100m relay in his first outdoor meet, the Clyde Hart Classic in Waco ... Qualified to NCAA Championships in the 200 meters where he finished 23rd ... Member of the All-American 4x400m relay squad.

2023 Indoor: Qualified to the NCAA Championships in the 4x400 and 400 meters ... All-American after a fifth-place finish in the 4x400m relay ... Silver medalist in the 200 meters with a 20.46-second race in Lubbock ... Opened his Baylor career at the Corky Classic with a 20.77 200-meter race for fourth and won the 4x400m relay ... Took fifth at New Mexico's MLK Jr Invitational ... Tabbed top-10 speeds at the Razorback Invitational in the 200 and 400.

Before Baylor:

• 2022 Outdoor Summit League Champion (200m, 400m, 4x100m relay)

• 2022 Indoor Summit League Champion (200m, 400m)
• 2022 Indoor All-Summit League (4x400m relay)
• 2021 Outdoor Summit League Champion (400m, 4x100m relay)
• 2021 Outdoor All-Summit League (200m, 4x400m relay)
• 2021 Indoor All-Summit League (200m, 4x400m relay)

2021 Outdoor: Summit League Newcomer of the Championships … Summit League Champion in the 400 meters ... member of the Summit League Champion 4x100-meter relay with a school, meet and Lillibridge Track Complex record clocking of 39.94 seconds … also earned all-Summit honors in both the 200 meters and 4x400-meter relay … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in both the 400 meters and as a part of the 4x100-meter relay … clocked 46.45 seconds to win the 400 meters at the Summit League Championships, which ranks second in USD program history … the time set a Lillibridge Track Complex record … also owns the second-best 200 meter time in USD program history with a clocking of 20.88 seconds from a runner-up finish at the Summit League Championships … anchored the Coyotes’ 4x400-meter relay to a second-place finish and a time of 3:12.53 at the league meet … the relay time ranks fifth in USD program history … placed 14th at the Jamaican National Championships in the 400 meters with a time of 46.79 seconds … set state of South Dakota collegiate record for the 4x100-meter relay … finished runner-up in the 400 meters at the Drake Relays by clocking 46.56 seconds … won the 200 meters in 21.64 seconds at the Sioux City Relays … clocked a season-best time of 10.67 seconds for 100 meters and ran a leg of the victorious 4x100-meter relay at the USD Early Bird … named Summit League Track Athlete of the Week on April 6 following the USD Early Bird meet … recorded five event titles and 13 top-10 finishes during the season.

2021 Indoor: Earned all-Summit League honors in the 200 meters … also placed fifth in the 4x400-meter relay and finished ninth in the 400 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season-best time of 21.47 seconds for 200 meters at the league meet … the time ranks third in USD program history for the 200 … clocked 47.51 seconds to win the 400 meters at the SDSU Last Chance meet … the clocking ranks fourth in USD program history for 400 meters … named Summit League Track Athlete of the Week on Feb. 23 following the SDSU Last Chance meet … clocked a season-best 6.87 seconds to take first in the 60 meters at the Dakota Quad Classic … the 60-meter time ranks ninth in USD program history … also captured the 400 meters at the USD Invitational and the 200 meters at the Dakota Quad Classic … was named a Summit League Athlete to Watch in the preseason … tallied six event titles and 13 top-10 finishes indoors.
 
High School: Left his mark on the record books of Excelsior High School ... broke a 28-year-old school record for the 400 meters previously held by Olympic medalist Gregory Haughton ... clocked his record-breaking time of 46.87 seconds in February at the Corporate Area Championships ... also ran on Excelsior's winning 4x400-meter relay at the 2019 ISSA Athletics Championships with a school record time of 3:10.94 ... holds a personal best of 21.85 seconds for the 200 meters ... an honor roll student.