TEXAS TECH TRACK AND FIELD - 2013
2013 RED RAIDER NEWCOMERS
BRADLEY ADKINS
FRESHMAN - HIGH JUMP // IDALOU, TEXAS // IDALOU
IDALOU HIGH SCHOOL - Lettered four years competing in the high jump, long jump, triple jump, and hurdles...cleared a career-best height of 2.13-meters (7’-0”) in the high jump...named the 2A Athlete of the Year in Texas during both the 2010 and 2011 seasons...also played football and basketball winning state championships in both sports.
ALEC ARENA
SOPHOMORE - LONG JUMP // ABILENE, TEXAS // OLE MISS // ABILENE
OLE MISS - Competed in the long jump for the Rebels during the 2012 indoor and outdoor seasons...recorded an indoor personal-best mark of 6.93-meters (22’-9.00”) in the long jump in a 7th-place finish at the Kentucky Rod Mcravey Memorial meet...recorded an outdoor personal-best mark of 6.78m (22’-3.00”) in an 8th-place finish at the Ole Miss Invite. ABILENE HIGH SCHOOL - Lettered in both football and track and field...competed in the pole vault, long jump and as a member of the 4x100 and 4x200 relay team...personal-best mark of 14’-6.00” in the pole vault...personal-best mark of 22’-11.00” in the long jump...named Abilene High School Track and Field Athlete of the Year in 2011...helped lead the track and field team to district championships during the 2010 and 2011 seasons...helped the football team to a district and regional championship during the 2011 season.
SHUJAA BENSON
FRESHMAN - SPRINTS/HURDLES/ JUMPTS // ARUSH, TANZANIA // ILLINOIS // EDWIN ALLEN
2012 OUTDOO (ILLINOIS) - Competed in the long jump for Illinois...placed first at Tom Botts Invitational with 23-5 ¼ (7.14m), a personal-best...Placed seventh at Sea Ray Relays with 23-2 ½ (7.07m).Q 2011 INDOOR (ILLINOIS) - Competed in the hurdles and long jump...recorded a season-best mark of 7.34 (24’-1.00”) in the long jump to place fifth at the Tyson Invitational...recorded a season-best time of 8.16 to place fourth at the Illini Classic. LOYOLA ACADEMY - Took third place in the 300-meter hurdles and fifth in the 110m hurdles at the 2010 Illinois Class 3A state meet ... Owns personal-best marks of 38.13 in the 300m hurdles, 14.20 in the 110m hurdles and 22-6 in the long jump ... was an all-state selection in 2010.
DWAYNE EXTOL
JUNIOR - SPRINTS // KINGSTON, JAMAICA // ALABAMA // WOLMOER’S BOYS SCHOOL
ALABAMA - Competed for the Tide during the 2011 and 2012 seasons...advanced to the 2012 NCAA East Preliminaries in the 200-meter dash...recorded a personal-best time of 20.99 at the 2012 Ole Miss Invite...recorded a personal-best time of 47.46 in the 400m at the USF Bulls Invitational. WOLMER’S BOYS SCHOOL - Led Wolmer’s Boys’ School to its first Jamaican Boys’ Championship in 54 years ... took first place in the 400m, second in the 400m hurdles and second in the 200m in that meet ... ran a leg on the 4x400m relay team that finished fourth at the IAAF Championships ... was the Jamaican Youth Champion in the 400m hurdles in 2007 and was fifth in the IAAF World Youth Championships that season ... was second in the under-20 400m hurdles at the 2010 CARIFTA games with a personal best time of 51.50 ... ran a leg on Jamaica’s under-20 4x400m relay team that won the event with a time of 3:10.63.
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