University of Tennessee Athletics
2019-20 Track & Field / XC Roster
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Watson, Vanessa
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Vanessa Watson
- Position:
- Sprints/Hurdles
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Rochester, N.Y.
- High School:
- Spencerport
Bio
Personal Records
Indoor Track
- 200m: 24.96 (HS)
- 300m: 39.26 (HS)
- 400m: 55.22 (HS)
- 500m: 1:12.83 (HS)
- 600m: 1:30.09 (HS)
Outdoor Track
- 100m: 12.23 (HS)
- 200m: 25.06 (HS)
- 400m: 54.58 (HS)
- 800m: 2:15.08 (HS)
- 400mH: 56.72 (2021) - UT Freshman Record
SEC Scoring
Indoor Track
- 2021 - 4x400m - 6th - 3:37.25
HONORS
- 2021 Outdoor USTFCCCA Second Team All-America - 400m Hurdles
- 2021 Outdoor Newcomer All-SEC
- SEC Women's Co-Runner of the Week (3/23/21)
- 2021 Indoor USTFCCCA Second Team All-America - 4x400m Relay
- 2019-20 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
2021 TRACK & FIELD
Outdoor- Competed at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials (6/25) in the 400-meter hurdles, placing fourth in her preliminary heat with a mark of 58.26
- Claimed individual All-America honors with her 14th-place outing at the NCAA Championships (6/9), clocking in at 58.21 in the 400-meter hurdles
- Set the Lady Vol 400-meter hurdles freshman record twice at the NCAA East Prelims (5/27-29), running times of 56.86 and 56.72
- Qualified for her first SEC final in the 400-meter hurdles, ultimately finishing ninth in 58.37 at the conference meet (5/15)
- Ran a leg of UT's season-best 4x400-meter relay at the Tennessee Challenge (5/1) who won the event in 3:38.18
- Won the Tennessee Challenge (5/1) 400-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 57.87
- Notched a win in the 4x400-meter relay at the Tennessee Relays (4/9), combining for a mark of 3:41.17
- Finished first overall in the 400-meter hurdles at the FSU Relays (3/26) with a time of 58.31
- Earned SEC Runner of the Week honors following her NCAA-leading performance of 57.88 in the 400-meter hurdles at the Tiger Track Classic (3/20)
- Combined with her Lady Vol teammates to earn Second Team All-America honors in the 4x400-meter relay, posting a season-best time of 3:36.60 at the NCAA Championships (3/13)
- Helped the Lady Vols to a sixth-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay at the SEC Championships (2/27), logging a time of 3:37.25
- Ran an indoor personal-best 55.55 400-meter dash at the Music City Challenge (2/13) for fourth place
- Contributed to the Lady Vols' victory in the women's 4x400 at Virginia Tech's Doc Hale Elite Meet (2/6) with a mark of 3:38.29
- Helped the Lady Vols to a win at the Hokie Invitational (1/23) in the 4x400-meter relay as they posted a time of 3:39.68
- Placed third in the 400-meter dash at the Hokie Invitational (1/23), clocking in with a time of 56.17
- Made her season debut in the 4x400-meter relay at the Commodore Indoor (1/16), placing second with a time of 3:41.71
2020 TRACK & FIELD
Outdoor
- Did not compete, as the 2020 outdoor track & field season was canceled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) global health crisis
- Made her SEC Championship debut (2/28) with a season-best time of 55.91 in the 400m prelims
- Combined with teammates Britton Wilson, Brooklynn Broadwater and Jada Chambers for a season-best time of 3:38.73 in the 4x400m relay at the Texas Tech Invite (2/1)
- Earned her first top-3 finish in the women's 400m (56.24) at the Virginia Tech Invite (1/18)
- Placed first in the 4x400m relay with a combined time of 3:45.48 at the Tennessee-Indiana Duals (1/11)
HIGH SCHOOL/PERSONAL
- Ran track at Spencerport High School in Rochester, New York
- Intends to major in Business
- 2019 USATF Juniors Bronze Medalist in the 400m hurdles
- 2019 New Balance Nationals All-American (400m hurdles - 3rd place)
- 2018 All-America Team
- 2018 USATF All-American
- 2018 400m hurdles New York state outdoor champion
- 2018 600m New York state indoor champion
- 13-time sectional champion
- Member of National Honors Society and president of D.A.S.H. to Change (multicultural education group)
- Recipient of the Harold Phillips Women's Track Scholarship Endowment
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