Kimarra McDonald Class: Senior Hometown: Lumberton, N.J. High School: Rancocas Valley Regional Height: 5-9 Event: Middle Distance

UT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 indoor All-American with 4x400m relay...Two-time SEC champion and All-SEC performer in distance medley relay (2007, 2008)...Eight-time SEC scorer...Two-time Penn Relays champ, including American record with 4x800m unit in 2009.

2009: Once again was a key relay component for UT, as she scored indoors and out at the SEC Championships in the 4x400m relay...Helped the indoor unit to fifth place (3:39.57) and the outdoor quartet to fourth (3:38.41)...Was a member of two huge victories at the Penn Relays...Led off American-record-setting 4x800m unit that ran 8:17.91 and ran the 400m hitch for the victorious DMR...Was an NCAA Mideast Regional qualifier in the 800 meters outdoors, running a career-best 2:08.43 at the Tennessee Invitational...Ran 2:09.19 in the SEC Outdoor prelims to finish 10th, one spot out of the finals...Indoors, her finest hour came at the Penn State National Invitational, where she ran the opening leg for UT's 4x800m relay squad that clocked in at 8:34.32, setting school and PSU meet and facility records.

2008: Became a USTFCCCA All-American for the first time and helped UT to its second consecutive distance medley relay conference title...During the indoor campaign, she ran the 400m leg on UT's DMR unit at the league meet, helping that squad win its second straight SEC title in 11:26.26 and card All-SEC acclaim for the second time...Also scored at the league indoor meet in the 800 meters for the first occasion, racing to a career-best 2:09.42 to snag seventh place...Earned her initial All-America nod by handling a hitch on the 4x400m relay quartet, which placed eighth in a season-topping 3:35.85...Outdoors, Kimarra started the slate with a 2:11.97 in the 800m, her best as a collegian, but she wasn't able to build upon that result...She did aid the squad on the relays, though, running a leg on UT's eighth-place 4x4 at the SEC meet (3:42.20)...Contributed to runner-up 4x800m relay at the Penn Relays, helping that group come home in 8:32.60...Assisted victorious DMR at Sea Ray Relays in 11:40.20...Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for the third time.

2007: Became a conference relay champion indoors but did not compete for the Lady Vols outdoors...During the indoor season, she ran the 400m leg on UT's victorious DMR unit at the SEC Championships, helping the Big Orange clinch the team title...Tennessee won the SEC DMR crown for the second time in three seasons...Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

2006: Kimarra was a two-time relay scorer in SEC competition as a freshman...Ran the 800m leg on the Lady Vols' fourth-place (11:41.81) distance medley relay at the conference indoor meet...Saw duty on the DMR one other occasion and also contributed occasionally on the Big Orange 4x400m unit, which posted the team's second-best indoor time, fifth-best in school annals, in 3:33.66 at the Tyson Invitational with McDonald running the anchor...Individually during the indoor campaign, she lowered her open 800m readout from 2:15.71 at the Gator Invitational to a career-topping 2:11.96 in the prelims of the SEC Championships...She wound up 11th overall...Outdoors, Kimarra ran in four races at 800 meters...Her best outing was a 2:11.73 clocking at the SEC Championships, where she finished 15th...Qualified for the Finish Line USA Junior Championships, but a 2:17.92 reading in the 800m prelims ended her season...Stepped to the plate again on relays, anchoring Tennessee to fourth place at the SEC meet in 3:38.63...Brought home the baton on a victorious sprint medley effort (3:57.15) at the adidas Raleigh Relays...Earned a spot on the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL: Raced to New Jersey indoor state championship at 800 meters in 2004, becoming first female athlete from Rancocas Valley to win an indoor state title since former Lady Vol Tonya Lee did so for RVRHS in the 400 meters and high jump in 1987...Competing in the Keystone State during her first two years of high school, Kimarra earned all-state honors in 2003 after finishing third in the 800 meters outdoors at the Pennsylvania state meet while representing Merion Mercy High School...Was the runner-up at the Pennsylvania indoor state meet in 2002...Finished eighth at the 2002 National Scholastic Indoor meet...Won Colgate Women's Games 800 meters in 2005 and 2002 and placed second in 2003 and fourth in 2004...Authored school records in the 400, 800 and 1000 meters, the mile and indoor sprint medley relay.

PERSONAL: Kimarra is majoring in exercise science...Has one sibling: Jarrytt McDonald, 20...Admires former Lady Vol and U.S. middle distance great Joetta Clark...Kimarra Danielle McDonald was born in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 14, 1987...Her parents are Rodney and Lisa McDonald.