D'Airrien Jackson
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- Height:
- 6-1
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- Hometown:
- Santa Clara, Calif.
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- Year:
- Sr.
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- High School:
- Wilcox HS
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- Previous School:
- Wilcox HS
Bio
2018: Competed in two meets for Tech … was Tech’s No. 5 runner at the Florida Mountain Dew Invitational on Sept. 22, recording a five-kilometer time of 24:25.74 … took a 6K time of 32:26.3 to be TTU’s No. 4 runner at the NCAA South Regional on Nov. 9.
2017: Ran in four races for TTU, finishing mostly as the teams fourth or fifth runner ... ran a season-best in the 5K at the UF Mountain Dew Invitational on Sept. 23 with a time of 23:32.0 ... placed as high as 27th at the Golden Eagle Invitational on Sept. 2 with a 5K time of 24:28.7.
2016: Competed in six of the seven meets for the Golden Eagles...recorded a career-best 5K time of 20:52.16 at the Greater Louisville Classic on Oct. 1...notched a career-best 6K time of 28:40.1 at the Crimson Classic on Oct. 14...placed 80th overall at the OVC Championships and recorded a 5K time of 21:23.2.
Before Tech: An exceptional runner in the sprints all the way up to the 800m, D'Airrien was among not only the best in the sate of California, her times put her on the national charts...competed at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara...ran a PR of 12.42 in the 100m and has a 25.18 in the 200m during her high school career...in the 400m, her personal best of 54.90 was the 11th best in California this year, it was also ranked No. 65 in the USA.
Personal: Jackson hails from Santa Clara, California...majoring in psychology.
Coach Angel on Jackson: D'Airrien is a blue chipper from Santa Clara California. She has untapped potential and the talent to be a dominant force in the 400m as well as the 800. With hard work, maturity and experience. D'Airrien will be a force to be reckoned with in the OVC.
News mentions
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – In what has become almost a weekly occurrence this season, the 2018 Tennessee Tech cross country teams added more record book material at Friday morning’s NCAA South Region Championships. Purity Sanga re-established the program’s best individual finish, and the men’s team – led by Brannon Cheplak’s all-region performance – took seventh out of 24 teams, the best regional result in Wayne Angel’s tenure as head coach. Sanga’s six-kilometer time of 20-minutes, 43.0-seconds awarded her seventh place overall among 208 runners in the competition, and improved on the program’s top individual finish, which she set last year with an eighth-place result. Sanga, who continues to make her case as the best runner in Tech history for either gender, recorded her second all-region honor in as many seasons, and will also be headed to the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. Her qualification for the championship meet comes by virtue of being the No. 4 individual finisher not affiliated with a team that finished in the top two.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – In what was most likely a unanimous decision, Tennessee Tech sophomore Purity Sanga was named the Ohio Valley Conference’s Cross Country Female Athlete of the Year, as announced by the league office Friday evening. During the same ceremony, teammate Janet Kwambai was honored for her impressive first season, as she earned Co-Female Freshman of the Year.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Tennessee Tech cross country team produced another set of headlines at the 2018 Florida Mountain Dew Invitational, as Purity Sanga clocked the first sub-17-minute 5K time in Tech history, and the men’s team replicated its runner-up finish from a season ago. One week after etching her name into the women’s record book with the best 5K time in TTU history, sophomore Purity Sanga outdid herself this time, burning up the track on UF’s Mark Bostick Golf Course with a time of 16-minutes, 41.58-seconds for her second consecutive runner-up overall finish.