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AT TENNESSEE: 2007: Ran in six meets for UT as a junior, scoring in three of them...Would have scored in a fourth race, but she was given an unusual disqualification at the NCAA South Regional as she and another runner converged at the finish line...Ran fourth for the Big Orange at the Bulldog Stampede, finishing 25th overall in a career-best 5K time of 19:35.36...Charted a pair of fifth-place team outings in 6K races at the Brooks Paul Short Run and the Penn State National Invitational...Her times were 22:41 and 23:21, respectively, good for 113th and 118th positions...Wound up sixth for the Lady Vols at the SEC Championship meet, crossing the line 54th in 22:56.21 for the 6K course...Made the SEC Academic Honor Roll for the first time...2006: Appeared in five meets as a sophomore for the Lady Volunteers...Posted career bests at 4K, 5K and 6K during the course of the season...Her best-ever 6K clocking of 21:41.34 put her eighth on the team and 36th out of 108 runners at the SEC Championships...Competed in the open division at the 6K Paul Short Run, finishing 16th out of 401 entries in a time of 22:26...Ran sixth on the team in the lid-lifting Belmont Opener, placing 31st overall in a career-best 15:09.79 over the 4K trail...Had a then-5K personal record of 19:38 en route to 27th place at the Tennessee Invitational...Was 48th out of 226 competitors in the "White Race" at the ISU Pre-National Invitational in 22:25.1...Chosen as the team's alternate for the NCAA South Regional and the NCAA Championships...2005: Competed in all seven meets as a rookie and was team's sixth finisher on five occasions...Charted career-best times in four of those outings...Was 10th overall at the Tennessee Invitational at Lambert Acres Golf Club, finishing in a time of 20:26 for 5K...Recorded her second 6K personal best of the season at the SEC Championships in Columbia, S.C., clocking in at 21:52.76 to wind up 51st...Bettered her previous mark by over a minute...Had a 4K topper of 15:57.56 in her first collegiate race at the Belmont Opener in Nashville to place 45th...Crossed the line 56th at the NCAA South Regional in Gainesville, Fla., in 22:41.08 and was 243rd at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., at 23:09.8...
HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered four years in cross country and indoor and outdoor track, serving as team captain during her final campaign at Sacred Heart Academy...Four-time All-Long Island selection in track & field from 2002-05 and three-time All-CHSAA (Catholic High School Athletic Association) choice over her final three seasons...Named 2005 Sister Virginia Crowley Athlete of the Year at Sacred Heart...Competed in both the Penn Relays and Milrose Games in 2004 and 2005...Placed seventh in the mile run at Penn as a senior in 5:01.12 behind victorious Lady Vol teammate Sarah Bowman...Was eighth in Milrose Games high school girls' mile at 5:02.92...Set a CHSAA Intersectional meet record in the 1500 meters in 2005 at 4:37.67...Named the CHSAA MVP for indoor and outdoor track her final two campaigns...Claimed fourth in the 1500 meters at 4:42.95 at the 2005 New York State Indoor Championships...Won the 2004 Colgate Women's Games 1500 meters at New York's Madison Square Garden in 4:49.60...Running for Awesome Power Track Club, Rolanda seized victory in the young women's division 1500 meters with a time of 4:38.22 at the 2004 USA Track & Field Junior Olympics in Eugene, Ore...Also won the 1500m at the 2004 AAU Junior Olympics with a time of 4:42.22...Fourth in the 2004 National Scholastic Indoor Championship in the mile at 4:57.77...Prep cross country bests include 15:10 for 2.5 miles and 19:14 for 3.1 miles...Track & field prep bests included 2:16 indoors and 2:12 outdoors in the 800 meters, 2:58 indoors in the 1000 meters, 4:57 indoors in the mile, and 4:36 outdoors in the 1500 meters...Recipient of the Hispanic Leaders of Tomorrow Award...Would like to one day run in the Olympics for Panama...Extracurricular activities include tap dancing and membership in Spanish Club, the gospel choir and prayer group...
PERSONAL: Rolanda is majoring in exercise science at the University of Tennessee...Is interested in physical therapy as a possible course of study and career...Activities outside competitive athletics include playing tennis, tutoring and serving as a volunteer track official at meets and as an altar server at her church...She has an older sister, Alana-Paige, 24...Rolanda Bell was born in Queens, N.Y., on Oct. 27, 1987...Her parents are Rolando and Karen Bell.
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