Sarah Pearson
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- Height:
- 5-7
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- Hometown:
- Manchester, Tenn.
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- Year:
- Fr.
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- Previous School:
- Coffee County HS
Bio
2018: Ran in two of Tech’s seven meets … took a season-best five-kilometer time of 23:51.9 to be Tech’s No. 4 runner at the Vanderbilt Commodore Classic on Sept. 15.
Personal: Four-sport athlete at Coffee County High School, winning four varsity letters in track, two in cross country, two in volleyball and one in basketball ... three-time Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association State Championships qualifier in the pentathlon (2015-17) and the 300-meter hurdles (2016-18) ... finished as high as seventh at the state meet as a freshman ... was part of three consecutive district championship teams ... posted high school career bests in the high jump (5-feet, 0-inches) as a sophomore, in the pentathlon (2,780 points) and the 300m hurdles (47.70 seconds) as a junior, and in the shot put (31 ft., 0 in.) as a senior ... graduated eighth in the Coffee County HS Class of 2018.
News mentions
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sophomore Purity Sanga is the new owner of the fastest women’s five-kilometer time in Tennessee Tech cross country history, and she sits alone at the top of the all-time list by a wide margin. Sanga came across the finish line in 17-minutes, 20.7-seconds, eclipsing Micayla Rennick’s old mark of 17:29.8 from October 29, 2016 by more than nine ticks of the clock.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – “Whose house is this!?” “TECH’S!” “Whose house is this!?” “TECH’S!” “Whose house is this!?” “TECH’S!” So went the chant led by coach Wayne Angel prior to the men’s four-mile cross country race on Saturday morning at the Putnam County Sports Complex. The idea, obviously, was that both the TTU men’s and women’s cross country teams were coming into the race intending to defend their home turf, and when the results came out, that’s exactly what they had done.