Hokie ClubClass: Junior
High School: Piscataway
Hometown: Piscataway, N.J.
2008 Outdoor: Earned sixth place in the 800-meter run at the ACC Championships with a time of 2:09.37 … Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 400-meter hurdles … Ran second leg of the NCAA East Regional runner-up 4x400-meter relay squad … Took ninth at the NCAA East Regional in the 400-meter hurdles … Won the 800-meter crown at the Murray Neely Invitational.
2008 Indoor: Broke her own school record in the 800-meter run at the Virginia Tech Last Chance meet, clocking 2:07.88 … Member of the ACC Champion 4x400-meter relay unit that ran a time of 3:41.27 … Sprinted the third leg on the school-record setting 4x400-meter relay squad at the Virginia Tech Elite Meet … Ran the 800-meter leg of the distance medley relay team that placed second at the ACC Championships … Placed 10th in the 800-meter run at the conference meet.
2007 Cross Country: Won the 4,000-meter event at the Hokie Open with a 15:05.5 time … Took seventh place at the Virginia Tech Invitational with a 4.2k time of 15:16 … Finished 24th individually (19:15) and teamed with Megan Fuson for the 19th-place duo at the Wake Forest Relays (40:54).
2007 Outdoor: Ran a then-personal-best 800-meter at the Georgia Tech Invitational with a 2:09.13 time to finish as the second collegiate finisher … Anchored former school record-4x400-meter relay squad (3:34.67) … Anchored sprint medley relay that established a school record (3:53.69) and ranked No. 8 in the country by Track & Field News … Placed 14th at the NCAA’s East Regional meet in the 800-meter dash with a time of 2:09.97 … Was 20th at the Hurricane Invitational in the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.96 to finish 16th in the 400-meter dash (56.75) … Named to All-ACC Academic Track & Field team.
2007 Indoor: Earned All-America honors after running the 800-meter leg of the distance medley that finished fourth at the NCAA Championships with a school-record effort of 11:10.84 … Anchored 4x400-meter relay that finished third at the ACC Championships (3:42.54) … Owned former school record in the indoor 800-meter (2:09.66) that earned a sixth-place finish at Penn State Open … Took fifth place at the ACC Championships in the 800-meters with a time of 2:10.50 … Anchored then-school record indoor 4x400-meter relay team (3:39.20) during a second-place finish at the Penn State National Open … At the Sykes-Sabok Challenge Cup, registered a seventh-place finish in the 800-meters at 2:12.11.
High School: Was a member of the New Jersey outdoor track and field state championship team in 2005, individually winning the long jump and placing second in the 800-meters … Earned eight letters under coaches Pete Buccino and Larry Lester … Recorded prep bests of 55.32 in the 400-meters, 2:11.31 in the 800-meters, as well as a 5.86m (19’3”) distance in the long jump … School and county record holder in the long jump, 400-meter and 800-meter sprints … Two-time Indoor GR IV state champion in 4x400m relay … Also the indoor GR IV state champion in the 4x200-meter relay and the sprint medley relay her senior year … Received the coach’s MVP award her senior year … Following her junior year, was named the Athlete of the Year by the Courier News, Home News Tribune, and the Star-Ledger … Earned a Greater Middlesex County Scholar-Athlete Award.
Personal: Born Feb. 25, 1988 in Newark, N.J. … Daughter of Alvin and Tia Washington … Has two siblings, Aja and Richie … Majoring in business.
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