Sarah Bowman Class: Senior Hometown: Warrenton, Va. High School: Fauquier Height: 5-7 Birthdate: 10/15/1986

AT TENNESSEE:

2007: Sarah emerged as the team's lead runner as a junior, pacing the squad in five of six races...Earned All-SEC acclaim for the third time and All-South Region kudos for the second occasion in her career...Carded her best-ever SEC finish when she crossed the line fourth out of 99 runners in 20:58.13 for 6K...The only race she did not set the tone for her team was the NCAA South Regional, where she ran second and placed 14th overall in 21:12.19...It was still the best regional outcome of her career...Claimed her second victory in three seasons at the Belmont Opener in a 4K personal-record time of 14:00.58...Came in second overall and was the top collegiate finisher at the 5K Bulldog Stampede, covering that length in a PR of 17:37.45...Earned SEC Athlete of the Week honors after both of those efforts...Came in fifth out of 198 runners (21:07) and ninth of 317 (20:51), respectively, at the Brooks Paul Short Run and Penn State National Invitational...Named Lady Vol Cross Country Team MVP at the squad's banquet in January...Once again thrived in the classroom...She earned second-team ESPN The Magazine Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-America, USTFCAAA All-Academic for cross country and track & field and USTFCCCA and SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year for track & field...Additionally, she was first-team ESPN The Magazine Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-District IV and once again made the SEC Academic Honor Roll...2006: Sarah stepped up her game as a sophomore, securing both All-South Region and All-Southeastern Conference acclaim and leading UT to the finish line in two of the last three meets of the season...Posted her second-straight top-10 effort at the SEC Championships, placing seventh in 20:23.09 as UT's best finisher to garner all-league honors...Added all-region kudos under her belt at the next meet, running fourth for Tennessee and 23rd overall in 22:06.4 at the NCAA South meet at Lambert Acres Golf Club in Maryville...Led the Big Orange to the tape at the NCAA Championships, checking in 97th out of 255 runners in 22:08.1...As Tennessee's second finisher, she came in 34th of 253 runners in the "White Race" at the ISU Pre-National Invitational with a readout of 20:55.9...Placed third for the home team and fifth overall in 18:27 at the 5K Tennessee Invitational...Ran fourth for the Big Orange and wound up 34th out of 237 entrants in 21:37 at the 6K Paul Short Run...Rewarded for her academic pursuits, she was a second-team member of the ESPN The Magazine All-District IV Academic Track & Field and Cross Country Team...Also made the SEC Academic Honor Roll as well as the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team for track & field...2005: As expected, Sarah made an immediate impact to the program, earning All-SEC honors during her rookie campaign...Opened her career by winning her first two races, becoming the first Tennessee freshman harrier since Lynn Lashley in 1976 to accomplish that feat...Won the 4K Belmont Opener in Nashville with a career-best 14:09.82 and came back two weekends later to capture the title at the 5K Tennessee Invitational in a personal-best 17:50...That clocking was the fourth-fastest 5K hitch ever recorded by a Lady Vol on the Lambert Acres course...In her first race at 6K, she was UT's number five scorer, covering the distance in 22:11 at the Penn State National Invitational...Stepped up her game significantly at the SEC Championships in Columbia, S.C., running the 6K trail at Fort Jackson in a PR of 20:02.47 to wind up sixth and help the Lady Vols win their third straight conference trophy...Was one of four Big Orange women to earn all-league acclaim for her performance at that meet...Faltered a bit near the middle of the 6K race at the NCAA South Regional in Gainesville, Fla., but she rallied to score in fifth position and wound up 35th out of 171 runners in 22:12.22...Aided the UT cause as her squad won its fourth consecutive region title...Also ran fifth for Team Orange at the NCAA Championships, covering the acreage in Terre Haute, Ind., in 22:40.4 to finish 231st...Academically, Sarah was named to the Thornton Academic and Student Life Center Honor Roll...

HIGH SCHOOL:

Named to the All-USA Today Track & Field Team from 2003 to 2005...Gatorade Female Track Athlete of the Year in Virginia from 2003 to 2005...Washington Post Athlete of the Season for 2004 and 2005 outdoor track...Member of the Post's All-Met squad all four years for outdoor track and her final three campaigns for indoor track...Also made the newspaper's cross country squad in 2002...2005 Fauquier Times Democrat and Fauquier Citizen Athlete of the Year...Tallied 15 Virginia High School League Group AA state championships during her illustrious prep career...Victories included cross country (2002), 800 meters outdoors (2003-05), 1000 meters indoors (2003-05), 1600 meters indoors (2003-04), 1600 meters outdoors (2002-2005), 3200 meters outdoors (2005) and 4x400-meter relay outdoors (2004)...Won the 800m, 1600m and 3200m and finished third in the high jump (5-3) to help Fauquier claim the Group AA outdoor state championship in 2005...Top ranked prep woman outdoors in the mile in 2005 (4:36.95), third in the 800 meters (2:05.41) and third in the two-mile run (10:19.61)...That mile time, recorded en route to victory at the 2005 Nike Outdoor Nationals, is the fastest ever run by a female at a high school-only competition...Indoors in 2005, she was tops in the mile (4:46.79) and 1000 meters (2:43.40), setting a national prep record in the latter...Was a member of the 2005 Pan Am Juniors and 2004 U.S. World Juniors Team in the 1500 meters...Major meet championships include the 2005 Pan Am Juniors and 2005 USATF Junior Nationals 1500 meters, 2002, 2003 and 2005 Nike Indoor Classic mile run, 2004 and 2005 Penn Relays mile run, 2004 and 2005 Taco Bell Classic 800 meters, 2004 adidas Outdoor Championships 800 meters, 2002 AAU Junior Olympics 1500 meters and 2002 adidas Outdoor Championships freshman mile...Outdoor personal bests include 2:04.94 in the 800 meters, which led the nation in 2004, 4:17.61 in the 1500 meters, 4:41.17 in the 1600 meters (and a 4:35.35 converted from mile time), 4:36.95 in the mile and 10:16.03 in the 3200 meters...Her 4:17.61 1500m clocking at the 2005 Pan Am Juniors was fourth all-time among U.S. prep women...Indoors, she ran a U.S. prep-record 2:43.41 in the 1000 meters, hit 4:46.79 in the mile and logged a 2:08.2 in the 800 meters...

PERSONAL:

Sarah has chosen human resource management as a major...Also aspires to have a professional career in track & field...Has two older siblings: Daniel, 26, and Rachel, 23...Sarah Michelle Bowman was born in Warrenton, Va., on Oct. 15, 1986...Her parents are Gary and Gail Bowman.