SAN ANTONIO – UTSA Director Track & Field/Cross Country Aaron Fox announced on Monday that the Roadrunners have signed English sprinter Gwendoline Datey to join UTSA this fall for the 2026-27 season.
“Gwen is an experienced sprinter with a high ceiling,” Fox said. “Starting the sport in just her senior year of high school, she’s already accomplished a lot very quickly. She’s only scratched the surface of what she can achieve and we’re excited to help her reach her potential and reach her aims in the classroom.”
From just outside London proper, Datey joins the Roadrunners from Loughborough University, where she registered a 200-meter bronze-medal performance at the 2024 British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Outdoor and was second in the event at the 2024 England Athletics Championships. She also helped her 4×200-meter relay to the silver, earned fourth individually in the 200-meter at the 2023 (BUCS) Indoor and collected indoor U20 200m bronze at the 2023 England Athletics Championships. Most recently, Datey earned the 60-meter bronze at the 2026 BUCS Indoor in Sheffield, recording a 7.43 personal best in the semifinal, and was fifth in the 100m at the 2025 UK Championships in Birmingham. Representing England at the 2023 Welsh International, Datey also registered her career-best 100-meter of 11.54 at the 2025 British U23 Championships on an eighth-place finish, while notching a career-best 23.76 in the 200m at the 2024 Newham & Essex Beagles Stratford Speed GP.
A graduate of Davenant Foundation School in Loughton and only starting school athletics in 2021, Datey also competed for Woodford Green with Essex Ladies (WGEL), earning the 200m Essex County Championships title in 2025, capturing both 100m and 200m Essex crowns in 2022-23, on top of the silver in 2022 and a National Relay Championships silver medal on the Davenant 4×100-meter in 2025. Selected for England Junior Talent Programme in 2023, she qualified from 2022-26 for the UK Championships and competed in the 2024 UK Olympic Trials.
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