{"id":134495,"date":"2026-01-28T04:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:51:09","slug":"liburd-earns-acc-performer-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134495\/","title":{"rendered":"Liburd Earns ACC Performer of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE \u2013 Florida State women&#8217;s track and field student-athlete\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/kaelyaah-liburd\/7400\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7400\" target=\"_blank\">Kaelyaah Liburd<\/a>\u00a0was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women&#8217;s Performer of the Week on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Great accomplishments for Kaelyaah, said head coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seminoles.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/coaches\/matt-kane\/896\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"896\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Kane<\/a>. She broke her own National record and a 10-year-old school record. Her improvement truly shows all the work she and Coach Davis have put in this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Liburd opened the Clemson Orange and Purple Invitation in record-breaking fashion for the Seminoles after placing second overall and the top ACC runner in the women&#8217;s 400-meter. Liburd recorded a time of 51.68, breaking the previous school record of 52.26 that was set by Kayla Funderburk in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Liburd&#8217;s 400-meter performance also marked her second national record. The British Virgin Island native currently ranks first in the ACC and third nationally this season.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Florida State cross country on X and Instagram (FSU_Track).<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE \u2013 Florida State women&#8217;s track and field student-athlete\u00a0Kaelyaah Liburd\u00a0was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women&#8217;s Performer of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-134495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}