Tiara Hymon
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- Height:
- 5-5
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- Hometown:
- Memphis, Tenn.
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- Year:
- Senior
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- High School:
- Ridgeway HS
Bio
The only senior on the track & field team roster, Tiara will provide leadership while competing for her final season...has enjoyed three successful seasons and has show improvement each year, putting her on track to become a much bigger contributor in 2016..competes in sprints and relays.
AT TECH (IN 2014-15): Competed in four different events during the indoor season and five events outdoors...ran the 60m, 200m, 300m and 400m races indoors...had times at 100m, 200m and 400m outdoors, in addition to the 4x100m and 4x400m relays...had Tech's best times indoors at both 60m (7.89 seconds) and 200m (26.45)...posted Tech's fastest times outdoors at 100m (12.35) and 200m (25.44).(IN 2013-14): (Indoor) Tiara competed in the 400m, 800m, 4x4 relay, and the distance medley relay...achieved a personal record in the 400m of 1:03.49 at the OVC indoor championships. (Outdoor) Due to an injury, Tiara only competed in one meet in outdoor season.
(IN 2012-13): During the 2012-13, Tiara competed in the outdoor season only, running the 200m, 400m, and 400m hurdles ... she ran a personal-best 1:02.97 in the 400m race at the Vanderbilt meet ... she also ran a leg of the 4x400m relay at the OVC Outdoor Championships.
HIGH SCHOOL: A dual sport athlete at Ridgeway High School in Memphis, Tiara competed in both track and soccer ... finished ninth in junior olympics...during her high school competitions, she made it to state meet every year...earned the Most Valuable Runner award and the Wilma Rudolph Award...captain of both the track and soccer teams.
PERSONAL: Tiara Louise Hyman is the daughter of Luther Hyman and Tametria Robinsan ... born Feb. 17, 1994 in Memphis...majoring in biochemistry.
News mentions
Three Golden Eagles scored points Friday with Top 8 efforts, and Tennessee Tech qualified runners for the finals on Saturday in three additional events on the first day of the 2016 Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Tennessee State University.
The Tennessee Tech track & field team is looking for the fun it has enjoyed throughout the season to continue this weekend when it heads to Nashville to compete in the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championships.
Competing on two fronts yielded some sensational results for the Golden Eagle track & field team, with four first place performances, two school records, nine personal-best efforts and an historical first for the program.
Tennessee Tech's 4x800m relay team not only smashed the school record Saturday at the Florida Relays, they finished sixth among some of the top teams in the nation.
Seven of the Tennessee Tech track team’s most successful runners are this weekend stepping onto the biggest stage of the year so far when they compete in the 72nd annual Pepsi Florida Relays
Tennessee Tech runners and throwers set four more school records Saturday at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational, including a mark by D'Airrien Jackson in winning the 400-meter dash that is close to the Olympic Trials qualifying standard.
\Na’Asha Robinson and \Sarah Brandt have opened the 2016 outdoor season by establishing school records on the first day of the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational.
The assault on the school record books proved successful during the indoor season for the Tennessee Tech track & field team, and now coach Wayne Angel’s team turns its focus to the outdoor season, which gets underway this weekend at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational.
Na'Asha Robinson and Sarah Brandt each won individual championships and helped the Tennessee Tech track & field team post its highest point total in history at the 2016 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships at Tennessee State.
The Tennessee Tech track & field team earned five points Friday on the first day of the 2016 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships. More importantly, coach Wayne Angel's team will send five runners into the finals on Saturday.
The school record book, as well as the list of individual personal best efforts, continues to undergo a transformation for the Tennessee Tech track & field team, with one more school mark and seven PR efforts falling Saturday on the final day of the Music City Challenge at Vanderbilt.
The first four events of Vanderbilt’s Music City Challenge produced three personal best times Friday night by members of the Tennessee Tech track & field team.
The Tennessee Tech track & field team added two more school records Saturday on the second day of Notre Dame's Meyo Invitational, after establishing two school records Friday night on the opening day of the meet against some of the best programs in the country.
After setting one school record and two personal best marks Friday night to open action at the Vanderbilt Invitational, the Tennessee Tech women's track & field team added another school record and five more career topping efforts Saturday to wrap up the squad's third weekend of action during the indoor season.
Tennessee Tech’s 4x800m relay shattered the school record Friday night at the Vanderbilt Invitational, slicing more than 30 seconds off a mark that had stood in the books for 16 years. The record performance, along with a couple of personal best times in the 200m dash, were the highlights on an opening night when the Golden Eagles had very few events.
Tennessee Tech runners broke four school records Saturday, including marks that had stood for 18 and 15 years, when the Golden Eagles opened the 2015-16 indoor season at the Vanderbilt Indoor Opener.