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TENNESSEE: 2008: Did not compete during the indoor season due to injury, but saw action in several meets 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...Did not run 3000m steeplechase at conference meet after taking seventh in 2007...Nearly logged a career-topper in the 1500m, cruising home in 4:39.05 to win at the Georgia Invitational...Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for the second straight season...2007: Scored at the indoor and outdoor meets at the SEC level as a freshman, taking fifth in the mile at SEC Indoors in a season-best 4:52.24 and scoring seventh in the 3000m steeplechase at SEC Outdoors with a time of 10:46.48...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...During the outdoor season, she posted a PR in the 3000m 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...Ran the number two leg on UT's 4x1600m tandem that took second place at the Pepsi Florida Relays...Academically, Jackie was a member of the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll and the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
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...Other top finishes for Jackie include a third-place finish in the 800m during her senior campaign (2:14) and a fourth-place outcome in the 1600m in 2003 (5:08.26)...In 2000, she finished 13th in the 3000m at USATF Junior Olympics...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:
Jackie is majoring in biological sciences at UT...She has two brothers, William, 22, who attended Florida Atlantic University, and James, 18...Jacqueline Ann "Jackie" Areson was born in Hong Kong on March 31,1988...Her parents are Mary Areson and William Areson.
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