Zemaya Carson - TFRRS Profile
School Records: *As of 5/10/2024
1st - Indoor Shot Put - 14.49m/47'6" - 2023 Big South (2/24-25)
2nd - Indoor Weight Throw - 17.91m/58'9.25" - 2024 USC Invitational (2/3)
2nd at CSU / 8th in Big South - Outdoor Shot Put - 14.99m/49'2.25" - 2023 Mount Olive Final Qualifier (5/14)
1st - Outdoor Discus - 50.07m/164'3" - 2024 CSU Buccaneer Invitational (3/15) Presented by East Bay Deli
1st - Outdoor Hammer - 52.46m/172'1" - 2024 Big South Championships (5/6)
2025 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Redshirted season ... Did not compete.
2025 Indoor at Charleston Southern Scored at the 2025 Big South Indoor Championships to help the team to a runner-up finish to tie their best finish in program history ... Had a podium finish at the meet as she took third in the shot put with a season best mark of 13.55m (44' 5.5") ... Took 6th in the shot put at the Gamecock Opener (1/11) with a mark of 12.75m (41' 10") ... Had her season best in the weight throw come at the Orange & Purple Invitational (1/24-25) with a mark of 16.58m (54' 4.75") where she finished in 9th at it.
2024 Outdoor at Charleston Southern: Named Big South Field Athlete of the Week (3/21) following the season opener where she broke the school record in the discus and moved on to the Big South's top ten for the event at the CSU Buccaneer Invitational (3/15) ...  Scored in a trio of events at the Big South Championships (5/6-8) ...  The points scored from that event helped the Buccaneers take second place in the meet for the highest finish in program history and a program record of 231 points scored, just .5 points less than the conference's record for a runner-up ... Had a career-best and broke the school record in the hammer throw with a heave of 57.02m (187' 1") to finish as the event runner-up ... Took runner-up honors at the meet in the discus throw as well with a 48.04m (157' 7") and 5th in the shotput with a 13.84m (45' 5") ... Had her season-best in the shotput come at the Georgia Tech Invitational (4/19-20) with a 14.79m (48' 6.25") to take third overall at the meet to get paired with a second-place finish in the discus throw throwing 48.23m (158' 3") ... Won the hammer and discus throws at the CSU Last Chance Qualifier (5/12) throwing 49.58 (162' 8") and 50.22m (164' 9") in the hammer at the meet ... Competed in seven meets during the spring season and eclipsed 47 meters in five of them.
2024 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Finished the year by taking second-place in a pair of events at the Big South Championships (2/23-24) ... Took second in the shot put with a season-best throw of 14.48m (47' 6.25"), just a hundredth of a meter off her personal best in the event set at last year's conference meet ... Had a throw of 17.63m (57' 10.25") for second at the meet ...Â
The points scored from these events helped the Buccaneers take second place in the meet for the highest finish in program history and a program record of 157 points scored ... Had a career-best in the weight throw at the USC Invitational (2/3) with a mark of 17.91m (58' 9.25") for the second best in CSU history ... Competed at all five meets during the season recording a top nine finish in eight of her nine events competed in to go with three runner-up finishes.
2023 Outdoor at Charleston Southern:Â Named Big South Freshman of the Week (3/23) ... Had a career day at the Big South Championships (5/10-12) recording career bests in all three events on the day while collecting 21 points individually ... Finished as the runner-up in the shotput with a heave of 14.63m (48' 0") for the second-longest in CSU history ... Then broke the discus school record to be the runner-up in that event as well with a throw of 48.19m (158' 1") ... Rounding out the day with a 4th-place finish in the hammer throw going for 47.46m (155' 8"), missing out on the school's all-time top ten by less than a foot ... Ended the season at the Mount Olive Final Qualifier (5/14) going for another career best in the shotput and setting a new program best with a heave of 14.99m (49' 2.5") to win the event ... Opened the spring by sweeping the Charleston Southern Invitational (3/17) in the shotput, discus and hammer throws ... Took 4th at a pair of regular season meets in the shotput at the Tennessee Invite (4/6-8) and Georgia Tech Invitational (4/21-22) with the field at GT having 30 competitors in it.
2023 Indoor at Charleston Southern: Broke the school record and won the shotput at the Big South Championships (2/24-25) with an indoor career best of 14.49m (47' 6.5"), nearly for a full meter better than her furthest entering the day ... Finished in 5th in the weight throw at the meet as well to have the 4th best-ever by a CSU athlete in program history, her career best with a 16.51m (54' 2").
High School: Originally from Warner Robbins, Georgia and attended Warner Robbins High School ... Was a two-sport athlete as she was on the basketball and the track and field teams ... Had personal best marks of 42.77m (140' 4") in the discus and 12.90m (42' 4") in the shot put ... She holds the school record in the shot put ... Won back-to-back Region 1-5A titles in the shotput between her junior and senior years ... Won the discus title her junior year then was the runner-up her senior season ... Placed 2nd in States in the shot her senior year as well as 5th in the discus at the meet ... During the State meet her junior year, she was 6th in shotput and finished in 12th in the discus.
