KING ON TFRRS
Junior (2017): Indoor - Appeared in four meets for the Cougars, competing in the sprints and relays ... Logged five Top 10 finishes over the course of the season ... Shaved 0.07 seconds off of her 60m dash PR at the JDL Team Challenge, finishing third with a time of 7.85 seconds ... Pulled off an indoor PR in the 200m dash at the same meet, finishing third with a time of 25.89 ... Outdoor - Competed in three meets for the Cougars ... Helped the Cougars establish two new Top 10 4x100m relay times on the year, running a 48.64 at the Seahawk Invitational and a 48.77 at the CSU Spring Break Invitational ... Came within 1/100 of a second of matching her 100m PR at CSU, running a 12.55 to take 13th
Sophomore (2016): Indoor - Appeared in four meets for the College, competing in the 60m, 200m, 400m and 4x400m relay ... Accrued three top-five finishes on the year ... Briefly held the CofC 60m dash record by recording a time of 7.92 seconds at the Bob Pollock Invitational ... Came within three hundredths of a second of breaking the 200m dash record at the UCS Invitational with a time of 25.90 ... Hit an indoor PR of 59.66 in the 400m dash at the High Point Team Challenge, finishing fourth overall ... Part of the 4x400m relay team that recorded a time of 4:00.17, the second-fastest in school history at the time ... Outdoor - Competed in the sprints and relays over the course of seven meets for the Cougars ... Logged seven Top 10 finishes on the season, highlighted by a pair of 2nd place finishes in the 4x100m relay ... Ran second leg for the 4x100m relay team at the UNCW Seahawk Invitational that broke the CofC school record in the event by over a second with a time of 47.62 ... Finished the season ranked among the Top 5 in CofC History in all three sprints ... Hit her 100m PR with a time of 12.54 at the UNF Spring Break Invitational ... Pulled off a personal best time of 57.72 seconds in the 400m dash at the Mountaineer Outdoor Open, finishing seventh ... Became the third-fastest 200m runner in CofC History at the Florida Relays with a time of 25.03
Freshman (2015): Indoor T&F - Appeared in five meets for the Cougars, competing in the 200m, 400m, 4x400m relay and distance medley relay ... Accrued three top-five finishes over the course of the season, headlined by a second place finish in the distance medley relay at the ETSU Bucaneer Invitational ... Ran second leg for the CofC school-record breaking distance medley relay team who finished fourth at the UCS Invitational with a time of 12:10.70 ... Achieved a PR in the 200m dash with a time of 26.39 at the ETSU Bucaneer Invitational ... Outdoor T&F - Appeared in six meets for the Cougars, competing in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m relays ... Achieved two top-five finishes on the season, highlighted by a first overall finish in the 400m dash at the XIX Alan Connie Shamrock Invitational with a time of 1:00.68 ... Hit a PR in the 200m dash at the same meet with a time of 25.76 ... Achieved her personal best 100m time of 12.82 at the Georgia Tech Invitational ... Pulled off a PR in the 400m at the UNF Spring Break Invitational with a time of 58.73, finishing 16th overall
High School: Prepped at Sumter High School … A four-year letterman in track … Led her team to a Sumter School District Championship in 2012 and regional championships in 2013 and 2014 … Named Region VI AAAA Champion in the 400m in 2012 and 2013 and was the regional champion in the 4x4 team relay in 2011-14 ... Earned the All-Region award in the 400m and 4x4 relay in 2011-14 ... Named a Lower State Qualifier in the 400m in 2012-14 and was the Sumter School District Champion those years ... Set a record of 62 seconds in the 400m for 2012 in the Sumter School District ... Earned the 2011 Academic Torch Award, the Academic Script Award in 2012 and 2013 and the Academic Honors Medallion ... Was a member of the concert, show and select choir ensembles.
Personal: The daughter of Michael and Twana King … Chose CofC because she loved the Charleston area and the science programs ... Her athletic goals at the College are to be a valuable asset to the track program and to improve her individual performance ... Her career ambition is to be a physical therapist ... Names her father as her biggest influence "because track and field has always been important to him and it is important that I make him proud."
King's CofC Personal Bests
Indoor
60m: 7.85 - JDL Team Challenge (Feb 9, 2017)
200m: 25.89 - JDL Team Challenge (Feb 9, 2017)
400m: 59.66 - High Point Team Challenge (Feb 11, 2016)
Outdoor
100m: 12.54 - UNF Spring Break Invitational (Mar 25, 2016)
200m: 25.03 - Florida Relays (Mar 31, 2016)
400m: 57.72 - Mountaineer Outdoor Open (Apr 30, 2016)
