Phoebe Wright Class: Senior Hometown: Signal Mountain, Tenn. High School: Red Bank Height: 5-7 Event: Middle Distance

UT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Two-time NCAA DMR champion (2008, 2009)...2009 NCAA Indoor 800m runner-up...Six-time All-American (DMR, 800m, 4x400mR)...Four-time SEC champion (twice in 800m, twice with DMR)...Nine-time SEC scorer...World record-holder with indoor DMR and outdoor 4x1500m...American record-holder with outdoor 4x800m and the two previously mentioned tandems...Owns five UT records on relays...Ranks No. 2 indoors and No. 3 outdoors on UT all-time 800m lists...First-Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American.

2009: Ran opening 1200m leg on UT's world-record-setting NCAA Indoor champion DMR unit (10:50.98)...NCAA 800m runner-up indoors (2:04.38) and fifth outdoors (2:03.57)...Earned USTFCCCA All-America accolades, indoors and out...SEC 800m champion indoors (career-best 2:02.39) and outdoors (2:02.15)...Named first-team All-SEC, indoors and out...NCAA Mideast Regional champ outdoors (2:02.20)...Lowered her personal record to 2:02.11 and then 2:01.12 in finishing third at the USA Championships...Traveled to the Guldensporenmeeting in Belgium to chase the 2:00.00 readout necessary for World Championships qualification but came up just short...Gave it another try at the Georgia Games in Marietta Ga., on July 19, logging a career-best 2:00.40 which left her a frustrating four-tenths of a second shy of making the cut...Anchored Tennessee's 4x400 relay unit to fifth place and clinched the team victory at the SEC Indoor Championships...Ran third leg on fourth-place 4x4 relay team at outdoor league meet...Member of three victorious baton units at the Penn Relays, including the DMR, 4x1500m and 4x800m events...Anchored the 4x8 quartet to an American record of 8:17.91...Ran second hitch of world-record 4x1500m tandem that clocked in at 17:08.34...Handled 1200m turn for the winning DMR...Ran second leg on 4x800m crew that set UT indoor record in 8:34.32 at the Penn State National Invitational...Named first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV, and was chosen to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team and the SEC Academic Honor Roll...Winner of Female Best Supporting Role at VOLSCARS, UT's athletic awards gala.

2008: Became a three-time All-American, was an NCAA and SEC champion and qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials as a sophomore...Indoors, she ran the 800m leg on Tennessee's national champion and school-record-smashing DMR unit (11:01.97)...Picked up her second A-A nod indoors by running a leg on the eighth-place 4x400m relay unit that finished in a season-best 3:35.85...Came in third in the 800m (2:07.61) and ran the 800m leg on the repeat SEC champion DMR unit to garner All-SEC acclaim once again...Victorious in 800m at Virginia Tech Elite and Tyson Invitational, charting a then-PR 2:07.19 at the V.T. meet...Outdoors, Phoebe seized sixth in the 800m at the NCAA Championships in 2:06.56, scoring individually for the first time at nationals and collecting A-A certificate number three...Had a then-PR of 2:04.38 in the semis...Ran then-PR of 2:04.92 to take third at SEC Outdoors...Helped UT's 4x4 to eighth at the league meet...Finished fourth in the 800m at the NCAA Mideast Regional, earning All-Mideast Region honors...Ran 2:05.66 in the first round at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore....Contributed to runner-up efforts in the 4x800m, 4x1500m and distance medley events at the Penn Relays...The DMR mark of 10:50.51 was a UT outdoor record to match the one she helped chart indoors...Named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV First Team, USTFCCCA All-Academic squad and SEC Academic Honor Roll.

2007: Went from joining the team as a walk-on to SEC champion during the indoor season, as she ran the 800m leg on UT's victorious DMR (11:24.35) at the SEC Championships...Nearly made the indoor league final in the 800m as well, placing 12th in a PR 2:13.20...Finished second in 500m at Penn State with a 1:15.20 readout...Outdoors, Phoebe placed 11th in the 800m at the SEC Championships with a career-best 2:08.01...Qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional and wound up 14th in 2:09.88...Won the 1500m at the Vanderbilt Invitational in a career-best and regional-qualifying 4:27.09...Ran a gutsy leg on UT's runner-up 4x800m quartet and aided an eighth-place 4x1500m cause at Penn Relays...Made the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll and USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.

HIGH SCHOOL: Phoebe made three state appearances in track and cross country...Finished 12th at the 2005 TSSAA Cross Country Championships to garner all-state honors...Placed 98th at the 2005 Foot Locker Cross Country South Regional...She finished sixth, fourth and fifth in the 800 meters, respectively, at the state meet in her final three years of high school...Had a fourth-place state outcome in the 1600 meters as a junior...Won the 800m and 1600m at the 2005 Volunteer Track Classic at UT's Tom Black Track, earning the Best Distance Female Award...Prep personal bests include 2:15.95 in the 800m and 5:15 in the 1600m.

PERSONAL: Phoebe Wright is majoring in biological sciences at UT...Her mother graduated from law school at UT...Has a sister, Chloe, 10...Phoebe Elizabeth Wright was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Aug. 30, 1988...Her parents are David and Lucy Wright.