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January 31, 2001 | Men's Track
Karl Jennings
Sophomore, 110 Hur./400 Hurdles
6-2 182
Scotch Plains, N.J.
2000-Outdoor-
Made tremendous improvement to become one of Tennessee's top hurdlers...Sped
to a NCAA provisional and career-best time of 13.98 in the 110M hurdles to
take fourth at the Gatorade Twilight Meet (May 18)...Ran a 13.99w at the Georgia
Tech Invitational...Double scorer at the SEC Outdoors by taking seventh in
both the 110M (14.02) and 400M hurdles (52.42)...Posted his career-best time
of 52.22 in the preliminaries of the 400M hurdles at the SEC Outdoors to qualify
for the finals...Ran a 14.34 to finish third in the 110M hurdles at the Knoxville
Invitational...Ran the first leg on Tennessee's third-place shuttle hurdle
relay, the second-fastest Vol effort of the season, at the Penn Relays (56.32)...Ran
the preliminary heats of the 110M hurdles (14.05) and the 400M hurdles (52.67)
at the National Invitational Team Championships in Austin, Texas...Posted
a 110M hurdles time of 14.17 (sixth), a 400M hurdles time of 54.00 (10th)
at the Florida Relays and ran the third leg of Tennessee's second-place, 56.28
shuttle hurdle relay, its fastest of the season.
Indoor- Timed at a career-best 7.54 (eighth) in the preliminary heat
at the UT All-Comers Meet (Feb. 18)...Clocked a 60M hurdles career-best 8.12
at the Kroger Invitational (Feb. 12) to finish eighth...Missed qualifying
for the SEC Indoor 60M hurdles finals with a 16th-place, 8.35 in the preliminaries...Placed
fifth in 8.28 in the 60M hurdles at the Wisconsin Elite Invitational.
1999- Redshirted.
HIGH SCHOOL- Took fifth in the New Jersey State Meet in the high jump and 110 hurdles...Top high school time in the 400IH was 54.88...High jumped 6-06 in high school...Tabbed All-County and All-Area...Team won three section championships, one group championship, two county and a county relay championship...Helped team to a perfect dual meet record.
