Missouri Southern State University Athletics

Individual Meet Results

Career Honors & Awards
All-MIAA - 2022
MIAA Academic Honor Roll - 2022, 2023 and 2024
MIAA Academic Excellence Award Winner - 2022 and 2023
MIAA Scholar-Athlete - 2022
CSC Academic All-District - 2023 and 2024
USTFCCCA All-Academic - 2021, 2022 and 2023

2024 - At the RSU Distance After Dark ran a season-best in the 5k of 18:41.6m on Sept. 5.

2023 - Ran a season-best of 18:38.1 in the 5k at the Chile Pepper Festival on Sept. 30 ... Competing at the NCAA DII Championships, she ran a season-best time of 22:03.0m in the 6k on November 18.

2022 - Ran a personal best time of 21:54.3m at the Central Regional Championships on the 6k course on Nov. 19 ... At the Chile Pepper XC Festival ran a personal best time of 18:00.4m in the 5k course on Sep. 30 ... Competing at the Rogers State Invite ran a personal best time on a 4k course with a time of 15:19.5m.

2021 - At the Missouri Southern Stampede ran a season-best 19:11.1 in the 5k... In the MIAA XC Championships ran the 6k at 24:14.19 ... At the NCAA Central Regional XC Championships ran the 6k in a season-best time of 22:58.7.

Prior to Southern
Gaines prepped at Fulton High School under coaches Patrick Knipe and Janelle Harrison, earning four letters in basketball, track, and cross country. She was a four-time All-Conference honoree and one-time conference champion in cross country. On the track, Gaines earned three All-Conference selections in the 1,600 and 3,200-meter runs, winning conference titles in both events twice. She was also a two-time All-Conference selection in the 800-meter run and a conference champion in that event once. In basketball, Gaines was named first-team All-Conference twice and second-team once. She earned All-District honors twice in both cross country and basketball and was named All-State in the 1,600-meter run once.

Personal
Kayanna, the daughter of Sara and Kevin Gaines, is pursing a degree in Nursing at Southern.