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| Jackie Areson |
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Delray Beach, Fla.
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| High School:
Atlantic Community
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| Height:
5-4
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| Position:
Distance
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| Eligibility:
In: Sr. / Out: N/A
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PERSONAL RECORDS
Indoors
Mile 4:43.85 (2010)
3000m 9:07.27 (2010)
5000m 15:53.12 (2010)
Outdoors
1500m 4:27.06 (2010)
5000m 15:51.56 (2010)
ARESON'S NCAA SCORING
2010 Indoor 5000m: 3rd, 15:53.12
2010 Indoor 3000m: 4th, 9:10.09
ARESON'S SEC SCORING
2007 Indoor Mile: 5th, 4:52.24
2007 Outdoor 3000mSC: 7th, 10:46.48
2009 Indoor 3000m: 2nd, 9:24.34
2009 Outdoor 5000m: 2nd, 16:32.72
2010 Indoor 5000m: 1st, 16:15.12
2010 Indoor DMR: 1st, 11:14.59
2010 Outdoor 5000m: 1st, 16:20.89
2010 Outdoor 1500m: 7th, 4:27.45
UT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: With only indoor eligibility remaining, she enters her final season as a two-time All-American, three-time SEC champion, two-time SEC runner-up and eight-time conference scorer...Owns school records indoors in the 3000m (9:07.27) and 5000m (15:53.12)...Anchored DMR unit that set SEC Indoor meet record in 2010...Three-time All-SEC First Team honoree and two-time member of second team...Penn Relays 5K champion (2009) and member of UT's 2010 championship 4x1500m and distance medley relay quartets at that meet...2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and Academic All-District IV selection...Four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll and three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Team member.
2010: Honors - USTFCCA Indoor All-American (3000m, 5000m)...Indoor and Outdoor All-SEC First Team...SEC Indoor Female Track Athlete of the Week (Feb. 2)...Lady Vol Athlete of the Week (March 30, Feb. 1)...Most Improved Lady Vol Indoor Athlete of the Year...ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and All-District IV First Team ...USTFCCCA All-Academic...SEC Academic Honor Roll...Indoors - Won a pair of SEC titles indoors, claiming the 5000m (16:15.12) and anchoring the DMR to a meet-record time (11:14.59) in her only appearance with that unit...Handled the distance double at the NCAA Championships, snaring third in the 5000m in a school-record time of 15:53.12 and taking fourth in the 3000m at 9:10.09...Previously set the UT best in the 5K with a runner-up finish at the Husky Classic earlier in the season at 15:53.54...Posted the school's top 3K mark in a victorious time of 9:07.27 at the Penn State National...Notched a mile PR by winning at the Hokie Invitational in 4:43.85...Outdoors - Scored in two events at the SEC Outdoor Championships on her home track...Completed a season sweep of league 5K titles by winning in 16:20.89...Nabbed seventh place in the 1500m, running 4:27.45...Campaign didn't end the way she wanted at NCAAs, as she placed 16th in the 5K at 16:17.07...Carded her career best in that event earlier in the season, however, taking second at the Stanford Invitational and posting the No. 2 mark in Lady Vol history at 15:51.56...Earned a pair of Championships of America at the Penn Relays, anchoring UT's DMR to glory in 10:54.65 and handling the second leg on the victorious 4x1500m unit that finished in 17:14.91.
2009: Honors - Earned All-SEC Second Team...Named to USTFCCCA All-Academic Team and SEC Academic Honor Roll...Indoors - SEC Indoor runner-up in the 3000m in a then-career-best time of 9:24.34...Also placed ninth in the mile and 5000m at the SEC meet...Charted a pair of indoor PRs at the Tyson Invitational, running the 3K in a then-best of 9:31.35 and coming back the next day to cover the 800m in 2:12.48...Outdoors - Took second in the 5000m at the SEC Outdoor Championships in 16:32.72...Won the 5000m with a then-personal-record and NCAA regional qualifying time of 16:11.71 at the Penn Relays...Finished sixth at the Mideast Regional in 16:35.64 and wound up 26th at NCAAs in 17:16.87...Won Sea Ray Relays 3K in a career-best 9:42.29.
2008: Honors - Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for the second straight season...Indoors - Did not compete during the indoor season due to injury...Outdoors - Registered career bests at 3000 meters and 5000 meters during the outdoor portion of the schedule...After running a 10:28.56 to place fifth at the Sea Ray Relays, she lowered her 3K PR to 9:58.48 to finish second at the Vanderbilt Invitational...Recorded a 5K time of 17:10.88 to place 19th in the championship division at the Penn Relays before dipping to 17:08.19 in a 15th-place outing at the SEC Championships.
2007: Honors - Jackie was a member of the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll and the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team...Indoors - Scored at the SEC level as a freshman, taking fifth in the mile at SEC Indoors in a season-best 4:52.24...Elsewhere during the indoor campaign, Jackie logged a personal record of 9:51.45 in the 3000 meters to earn fifth place at the Tyson Invitational...Outdoors - Contributed points at league outdoor meet, scoring in seventh in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 10:46.48...Posted a PR in the steeplechase at the Vanderbilt Invitational, winning the race in 10:32.53 to qualify for the NCAA's Mideast Regional...That time ranks her number two on the UT all-time performers list in that event...Placed 10th at the Mideast Regional in 10:43.44...Also logged a personal best of 4:38.62 in the 1500m at the Wake Forest Open...Contributed to Lady Vol relays, helping the 4x1500m unit take eighth at the Penn Relays in 18:13.61.
HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered four years in cross country and track during her prep career, which included stints at Cardinal Newman for the 2002 cross country season, Pope John Paul II High School from 2003-05 and Atlantic Community High School in 2005-06...Jackie was the runner-up twice at the Florida 2A XC championships (18:45 in 2003 and 18:25 in 2004) and was third at the 4A meet (19:02) in 2005...Finished seventh in the 2002 FHSAA 2A Cross Country Championship as a freshman with a time of 19:46...Jackie is the state record-holder for both the Florida high school mile (4:45.01 converted) and middle school mile...She was also part of the 2004 PJP squad which broke the Florida distance medley record with a 11:56 readout...She is a four-time high school state champion...She won championships in the 800m twice (2:13.54 in 2004 and 2:12.25 in 2005), and once each in the mile (4:55.72 in 2006) and the 4x800m relay (9:30.75 in 2004)...Competed in four Nike National indoor and outdoor meets, winning the mile in 4:50.13 indoors in 2006, taking third in the freshman mile indoors in 2003 at 5:18 and grabbing fifth in the indoor mile (4:55) in 2004, sixth in the outdoor mile (4:46.67) in 2005 and eighth in the outdoor mile (4:54) in 2006...Was a Nike All-American each season...With Pope John Paul II, Jackie enjoyed a 2003 Florida 2A team state championship...Prep bests include 2:12.25 for 800m, 4:46.67 for the mile, 10:33.00 for 3200m and 17:40 for 5000m.
PERSONAL: Born March 31,1988, in Hong Kong...Jackie has earned a degree in biological sciences with emphasis in ecology and evolutionary biology...She is pursuing a second degree in geography...Parents are Mary Areson and William Areson...Has two brothers, William and James.
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