2023
Wiley opened her track season at the Camel City Elite Races at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her mile time of 4:32.15 set a new NAIA national record and was the fastest collegiate time ever run at the Camel City Elite Races. She had to decline the $6,000 winnings due to NAIA regulations. It was the first time a collegiate athlete had won an Elite Race at Camel City. [28]
On February 18, Wiley competed in the 1500m at the 2023 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In a field consisting of 10 professional runners and only two collegiates, Wiley lead the race for the first 1200m before ultimately placing 4th with a time of 4:18.84. She again had to decline the $1,500 prize money. [29]
At the 2023 NAIA indoor track and field championships held in Brookings, South Dakota, Wiley won five national championships and broke one meet record in a span of only three hours, 55 minutes. She started the day by winning the mile in 4:48.04. An hour later, she won the 600m in a meet record time of 1:29.47. Forty-five minutes later, Wiley won the 800m in 2:10.93 and only thirty-five minutes later, she won the 3000m in 9:47.57. She finished the day by anchoring Huntington's Distance Medley Relay team to victory in 11:46.74. [30] Only 13 female athletes in NAIA history have won five or more indoor titles in a four-year career; Wiley accomplished it in less than four hours. She was named the meet's Most Valuable Performer and the Huntington women's team finished as the national runner-up. [31]
Wiley was named the 2023 NAIA women's indoor track & field National Track Athlete of the Year [32] and the 2023 NAIA Women's Indoor Track & Field National Scholar Track Athlete of the Year [33] by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. In addition to her five national championships, she maintained a 3.512 cumulative GPA.
Wiley began her outdoor season on the roads, competing in the USATF Mile Road Championships in Des Moines, Iowa on April 25. Despite being the only non-professional runner in the 20-woman field, she placed 3rd with a time of 4:30.94. Her time was the 6th fastest in the nine-year history of the event. As an amateur, she had to decline the $1,500 prize for third place. [34]
Wiley remained in Des Moines to compete against another professional field in the Drake Relays. She placed 4th in the 1500m with an NAIA record time of 4:12.53. She suffered her only loss of the year to a collegiate runner in a track final, losing to Canadian Simone Plourde of the University of Utah. [35]
At the end of May, Wiley competed in the NAIA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship held at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She added two more national championships to her résumé, winning both the 800m (2:04.29) and the 1500m (4:14.56), along with running a leg of Huntington's 5th place 4 × 800 m relay in 2:01.25. The Huntington women's team placed 6th in the team standings. [36]
Wiley was named the 2023 NAIA women's outdoor track & field National Scholar Track Athlete of the Year [37] by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and the Crossroads League Female Athlete of the Year. In total, she won seven NAIA national championships, nine NAIA All-America honors, nine Crossroads League Athlete of the Weeks honors, six NAIA Athlete of the Week honors, and was the NAIA Runner-up in cross country during her freshman year. Wiley also set five NAIA records and established two more NAIA all-conditions/out-of-competition records. [38]
Wiley began her summer racing schedule at the Music City Track Carnival at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee on June 3, part of the American Track League professional series. Her winning time of 4:03.22 time was the second fastest collegiate time in history behind only Jennifer Simpson, [39] who won four Olympic and World Championship medals in the 1500m including the 2011 World Championship gold medal. The time broke the meet record of 4:03.64 set by 2021 Olympian Cory McGee and also met the World Athletics Championships standard of 4:03.50. [40] Wiley again had to decline a cash prize, this time for $2,000.
Wiley next competed in the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. On July 6, Wiley won her semi-final heat with a time of 4:09.53, finishing ahead of 2021 Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu and Olympian Cory McGee. Two days later, she finished 5th in the final with a time of 4:04.25. [41] As a result of her placing, Wiley earned a spot on the United States team that would participate in the NACAC U23 Championships later that month but had to decline another $2,000 prize.
On July 23, Wiley represented the United States in the NACAC U23 Championships in San José, Costa Rica. The meet consists of athletes from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Competing in the 1500m, she won the gold medal and set a new meet record with a time of 4:05.84, her third sub-4:06 performance since the start of June. The previous record of 4:15.52 was set in 2014 by Canada's Jenna Westaway. [42] [43]
Wiley continued her 2023 track season at the Ed Murphey Classic held at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, another stop on the American Track League professional series. She defeated a professional field that included 2023 World Championship team member Kaela Edwards to win in a personal record of 1:59.00, the fastest collegiate time in the nation in 2023. Wiley became the only female collegiate runner to ever run under 2:00 in the 800m and under 4:04 in the 1500m in her career. [44] [45] The following day, she competed on the roads again, this time in the Beale Street Murphey Mile against another field of professionals. Wiley bested a field led by three-time NCAA Champion Dani Jones to win in 4:37.7. Wiley earned $1,000 for each win but was required to decline it as an amateur athlete. [46]
In September, Wiley made her first appearance on the European track circuit at the Galà dei Castelli meet in Bellinzona, Switzerland. She placed 2nd to Jamaica's Natoya Goule with a new PR of 1:57.64, making her the second fastest collegiate 800m runner of all-time behind only Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu. Both Wiley and Goule broke the meet record. Wiley's time ranks No. 3 in the US and No. 8 in the world for 2023 and makes her the 11th fastest American of all time. [47]
On September 8, Wiley competed in her first Diamond League event, the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium. She placed 8th in a field of 15, all but one of whom had previously competed in the Olympics and/or World Championships. Her time of 3:59.17 broke the all-time collegiate 1500m record of 3:59.90 set by Jennifer Simpson in 2009. It also made her the 10th fastest American of all-time and ranks her No. 2 in the US and No. 19 in the world for 2023. Wiley joined Mary Slaney as the only American women in history to run both sub-1:58 for 800m and sub-4:00 for 1500m during a career. She became the third youngest runner to ever accomplish the feat at the age of 19 years, 319 days. [48]
Wiley represented the United States at the World Road Mile Championships in Riga, Latvia on October 1. She placed 9th with a time of 4:36.03. [49]
On November 17, 2023, Wiley won the NAIA cross country national championship in Vancouver, Washington, in a time of 21:04.2. [50]
