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Bianca Blair                  Hometown: Knoxville, Tenn. High School: Austin-East Last College: South Carolina/Texas A&M Height: 5-7 Event: Hurdles/Sprints Year (In/Out): Sr./Sr.

PERSONAL RECORDS

Indoors
60mH: 8.53 (H.S.)
200m: 26.09 (2011)

Outdoors
100mH: 13.57 (H.S.)
400mH: 1:00.03 (H.S.)
200m: 26.80 (2011)

UT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Named to 2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll...Recipient of 2011 Herb Neff Award, which goes to the best Lady Vol walk-on.

2012: Honors - None...Indoors - Posted a season-best time of 8.68 to place third in the 60m hurdles at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge...Matched her season best of 8.68 in the 60m hurdles prelims at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational...Finished sixth in the 60m hurdles in 6.89 at the Kentucky Invitational...Outdoors - N/A.

2011: Honors - Named to SEC Academic Honor Roll...Recipient of Herb Neff Award, which goes to the best Lady Vol walk-on...Indoors - Posted a season-best time of 8.69 in the 60m hurdles at the Penn State National...Logged an indoor career best in the 200m, running 26.09 at the Texas A&M Challenge...Outdoors - Ran season bests of 14.03 and 1:00.69 in the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles prelims at the SEC Championships but did not advance to the finals...Finished third in both of those events at the UT-UCLA Dual, clocking readouts of 14.08 and 1:01.61, respectively...Also scored in the 200m at that meet, checking in eighth with an outdoor career topper of 26.80...Ran the second leg as UT won the shuttle hurdle relay in 58.63 at the Sea Ray Relays for the sixth-best time in school history.

AT SOUTH CAROLINA/TEXAS A&M: Spent the 2008 season at South Carolina and 2009 at Texas A&M...Competed only indoors at USC.

HIGH SCHOOL: Swept TSSAA state titles in the 100m hurdles and 300m hurdles in 2006 and 2007, helping Austin-East win a state team title in 2007...Took second in those events in 2005 and third in each in 2004...Posted AEHS records of 13.57 and 41.95, respectively, in those events...Also had PRs of 7.94 in the 55m hurdles and 8.53 in the 60m hurdles and 60.03 in the 400m hurdles...Ran 12.33 in the 100m and posted a best 4x4 relay split of 53.9...Took third in the 100mH and sixth in the 400mH at the 2007 Nike Outdoor Nationals...Coached by former Lady Vol Heather (Sumpter) Blakemore and former Vol Aries Merritt.

PERSONAL: Born April 9, 1989, in Knoxville, Tenn....Majoring in business administration...Parents are Leonard and Travonda Blair...Has Four siblings: Jhasta Houston, Jeffery Phillips and Jermaine and Leonard Blair...Mother is UT graduate, while Jeffery played football at Chattanooga.