Coleman Opens Pan Am Juniors Friday
July 29, 2015 | Track & Field
July 29, 2015
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee rising sophomore Christian Coleman will represent Team USA this week when he competes in the men's 100-meter dash at the Pan American Junior Championships in Edmonton, Canada, on Friday.
Coleman, the reigning SEC Freshman Runner of the Year, will compete on opening day of the Championships, running in the 100-meter prelims on Friday at 1:20 p.m. ET. Should he emerge with one of the eight fastest times during the preliminary heats, Coleman will race for Pan Am Juniors hardware later that evening in 100-meter finals at 8:15 p.m.
Live results and live streaming video can be accessed through Edmonton2015.ca, the official home site of the 2015 Pan American Junior Championships.
The Pan American Junior Championships is a biennial event held among athletes from the nations of the Americas in the years preceding and following the Summer Olympic Games. Only athletes aged 19 years or younger are eligible to compete.
Coleman is coming off a stellar freshman campaign that saw him earn the SEC's Indoor Freshman Runner of the Year as well as the league's Co-Freshman of the Year honor for the outdoor season. He was an indoor All-American after finishing sixth in the 60-meter dash at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March, making him UT's first indoor All-American in the 60 meters since Justin Gatlin in 2001. The Atlanta native would go on to score second team All-America honors during the outdoor season, finishing 15th in the National Championships in both the 100 and 200-meter dash.
Coleman qualified for the Pan Am Junior Championships by virtue of a runner-up finish at the 2015 USATF Junior Championships. There, he clocked a career-best and wind-legal time of 10.18 in the finals of the 100-meter dash.
