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Kia Jackson                  Hometown: Lithonia, Ga. High School: Southwest DeKalb Height: 5-3 Position: Sprints/Jumps Year (In/Out): Jr./Jr.

PERSONAL RECORDS

Indoors
55m: 7.32 (H.S.)
60m: 7.49 (2011)
200m: 24.64 (2011)
Long Jump: 19-8/5.99m (2010)

Outdoors
100m: 11.63 (H.S.)
200m: 24.02 (2011)
Long Jump: 19-3/5.88 (2010)

JACKSON'S SEC SCORING

2010 Indoor Long Jump: 5th, 19-8/5.99m

2011 Indoor Long Jump: 8th, 18-11.25/5.77m
2011 Outdoor 4x100mR: 6th, 44.73

UT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2011 USTFCCCA Outdoor Honorable Mention All-American (4x100mR)...Three-time SEC scorer, including twice in long jump...Made 2010 SEC Indoor All-Freshman Team in long jump...2011 USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field and two-time member of SEC Academic Honor Roll...2010 USA Junior Championships participant (100m/200m/LJ).

2012: Honors - None...Indoors - Ran a season-best 7.53 in the 60m prelims at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational...Placed fifth in 60m dash in 7.64 at the Kentucky Invitational...Second in the long jump at 19-1 3/4 and sixth in the 60m at 7.65 at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge...Ran a season-best 24.69 200m clocking at A&M as well...Outdoors - N/A.

2011: Honors - Earned USTFCCCA Outdoor Honorable Mention All-America accolades (4x100mR)...Named USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field...Made SEC Academic Honor Roll...Indoors - Finished eighth in the long jump at the SEC Indoor Championships, leaping 18-11 ¼...Competed in 60m and 200m dashes at league meet, running 7.52 and 24.71 but not advancing...Season and career best in 60m was 7.49 in prelims at New Balance Collegiate Invitational...Top 200m mark came at the Kentucky Invitational, where she ran 24.64...Outdoors - Ran on UT's sixth-place 4x100m relay unit, which hit the tape in 44.73 at the SEC Outdoor meet...Also anchored Lady Vols to 44.78 at the NCAA meet, which did not advance to the final but was good enough for All-America honorable mention status...Anchored UT to eighth in the 4x100m event and sixth in the 4x200m race at the Penn Relays...Ran a wind-aided season best of 11.63 to take third in the 100m at the Vanderbilt Invitational...PR in the 200 came at the Sea Ray Relays, where she checked in seventh in 24.02.

2010: Honors - Made SEC Indoor All-Freshman Team (long jump) and SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll...Indoors - Competed in the 60m, 200m and long jump at the SEC Championships, landing a career-best leap of 19-8 in the latter to snare fifth place...Posted her top 60m time at the Texas A&M Challenge, running 7.58...Her 200m best came at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational, where she covered the distance in 24.68...Outdoors - Carded an outdoor best in the long jump at the Tennessee Invitational, taking second at 19-3...That earned her a trip to the USA Junior Championships, where she was 10th at 17-11 1/4...Competed in the 100 and 200 there also but did not advance past the first round...Wound up 15th at SEC meet in long jump at 18-1 3/4...Ran her best wind legal 100 and 200 readouts at the Sea Ray Relays, clocking in at 11.80 and 24.39, respectively...Anchored season-best 4x100m effort at the Penn Relays, bringing UT home fifth in the college division final in 45.45.

HIGH SCHOOL: Swept 2009 Georgia Class AAAA state titles in the 100m (11.63) and 200m (24.86) dashes and helped SWDHS win the 4x100m relay in a state record time and capture their third straight team title as well...She ran on state-winning 4x1s all four years and contributed to 4x4 triumphs in 2006 and 2008...State runner-up in 100m and 200m as a junior...2009 Atlanta Track Club Track Woman of the Year (100m, 4x100mR)...2008 Nike Outdoor Nationals All-American, taking sixth in 100m and seventh in 200m...Member of honor roll, principal's list and marching and concert bands.

PERSONAL: Born Jan. 15, 1992, in Atlanta, Ga....Majoring in child and family studies...Parents are Erik and Vertrina Jackson...Has two sisters, Erin and Carmen...Recipient of the Hartman Endowment for the Thornton Athletic Center.