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2018 Outdoor: IAAF World U20 Champion…NCAA East Regional Qualifier…competed in nine meets…placed first on 4x400 relay team (3:52.60) at the Maryland Invitational (3/17)…placed first in 400 hurdles (59.20) and 4x400 relay team (3:40.49) at USF Bulls Invitational (3/22-23)…ran the 400m (1:00.90) hurdles and 4x400 relay team (3:43.03)at the Florida Relays (3/29-31)…first place finish in the 400 hurdles (59.03) hurdles and second place 4x400 relay team (3:50.49) at Virginia (4/6)…placed first in Virginia Challenge (4/20-21) in the 400m hurdles (57.74) and the 4x400 relay team (3:39.58)…ran 4x200 and 4x400 relay team at Penn Relays (4/26-28)…placed first in the Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/4) in the 400 (54.86)…ran a season best in the 400m hurdles (56.59) at the Big Ten Championships (5/11-13)…competed in the NCAA East Preliminary Round (5/24-26)…competed for Canada in the IAAF World U20 Championships (7/10-15) placed 2^nd (58.09) in the 400m hurdles.

2018 Indoor: Competed in six meets…placed 3^rd (56.61) and the 4x400 relay (3:45.16) in the Nittany Lion Challenge (1/13)…placed first in the 400m (56.76) at the Penn State National (1/26-27)…2^nd place 4x400 relay team (3:42.58) at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite (2/2-3)…ran a season best in the 300 (38.28) and 60 (7.75) at the Spire NCAA D-1 Indoor Track & Field Classic (2/9-10)…ran a seasons best in the 400m (54.17) and placed 4^th in the 4x400 relay team (3:35.89) at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships (2/23-24). 

Before Maryland: Ran track at Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School and for the Speed Academy Athletic Club…2017 Pan Am Junior silver medalist in the 400m hurdles and 4x400 relay…2017 Canadian Senior bronze medalist in the 400m hurdles…2016 Canadian junior 4x400 relay record holder (3:32.25)…2016 IAAF World Junior bronze medalist in the 4x400 relay and 400 meter hurdles…2016 Junior National Champion in the 400m hurdles…2016 National Youth Track Athlete of the Year (Myrtle Cook Trophy)…four-time Provincial Sprints/Hurdles Athlete of the Year…2015 Canadian Youth 400m hurdles record holder (56.79)…2015 IAAF World Youth Silver Medalist in the 400 meter hurdles…three-time gold medalist in the 100m, 200m and 200m hurdles at the 2014 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships…2014 Female Athlete of the meet (Leroy Washington Award) at Legions National Youth Track and Field Championships…eight time OFSAA medalist…six-time OFSAA gold medalist…secured OFSAA titles in the 100m, 400m and 400m hurdles in 2016…honor roll.

Personal: Daughter of Roger and Marcia Santiago…has an older brother Dana…chose Maryland because, “the moment I stepped on campus I knew that Maryland would be a place that I could call home. I was impressed by the academic system at Maryland as well as the coaching staff and athletes on the team,”…uncle is former NFL player O.J. Santiago…lists sports hero as Molly Killingbeck…majoring in letters and sciences.