Career
In 2007, Ayala ran for Dickinson State University in North Dakota and was named Outstanding DAC Conference Track Athlete in both indoors and outdoors events. He was runner-up in the 400IH in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national championships. Also setting a new Guatemalan national record in the event.
Three weeks later he set the 400 meters Guatemalan national record in Costa Rica.
He then broke his own record in the 400IH at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ayala was also the only Guatemalan to run in the 2007 World Athletic Championships in Osaka, Japan.
