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    Julia Petree     
     
      Julia Petree
Hometown:
Maryville, Tenn.

High School:
Maryville

Height:
5-6

Event:
Sprints/Middle Distance

Year (In/Out):
Fr./Fr.

PERSONAL RECORDS

Indoors
60m: 7.99 (2009)
200m: 25.19 (2012)
400m: 56.29 (2012)

Outdoors
100m: 12.06 (2010)
200m: 24.95 (2011)
400m: 55.63 (2009)
800m: 2:15.37 (2012)

PETREE'S SEC SCORING

2012 Indoor DMR: 1st, 11:12.23

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Earned All-SEC Indoor First Team accolades as the 400m leg on UT's 2012 SEC DMR championship squad.

2012: Honors - All-SEC Indoor First Team (DMR)...Indoors - Ran the 400m leg on UT's SEC Indoor DMR championship squad, earning All-SEC First Team accolades...That victory was UT's sixth-straight at the meet and eighth in nine seasons...Also posted PRs of 25.19 in the 200m and 56.29 in the 400m in SEC prelim races...Won the Blue Division 400m at the Akron Invitational with an indoor career best of 56.66...Took second in the Blue Division 200m at that meet in 25.49...Ran the 400m in 58.61 at the Kentucky Invitational and was 12th in 58.19 at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge...Covered the 200m in 26.10 at the Auburn Invitational and ran the 400m leg on UT's third-place DMR (12:38.89) at that meet as well...Outdoors - Competed in the 800m and 400m at the SEC Championships, recording times of 2:17.77 and 55.85, respectively...Finished third in the 400m (56.40) and ran 25.54 in the 200m to place eighth at the Tennessee Challenge in her first home appearance as a Lady Vol...Lowered her PR to 2:15.37 in the open 800m at the Sea Ray Relays.

HIGH SCHOOL: All-state performer on the oval all four years at MHS...Won AAA state title in the 400m in 2009...She was second in the 400m and 100m in 2010, and third in the 100m in 2011...Finished third in the 400m at AAU Indoor Nationals in 2011...Owns Maryville High School records in the 100m and 400m as well as with the 4x200m and 4x400m relays...Ran 21:37.70 for 5K in cross country.

PERSONAL: Born March 12, 1993, in Maryville...Enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences...Interested in elementary education...Parents are Stanley Petree and Caroline Petree...Has a younger brother, Andrew...Joined former MHS alums Jordan Chaney and Ellen Wortham in the track program at UT.