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Orlando, Fla. – LSU’s Sha’Carri Richardson grew to become the primary freshman in The Bowerman’s 11-year historical past to win the award on Thursday evening on the Grande Lakes Resort. The Bowerman is awarded to one of the best collegiate monitor and discipline athlete yearly on the U.S. Observe & Area and Cross Nation Coaches Affiliation Conference.

Richardson was introduced because the winner of The Bowerman over Florida’s Yanis David and Arkansas’ Janeek Brown. Richardson is the third feminine athlete from the SEC to win The Bowerman becoming a member of the likes of LSU’s Kimberlyn Duncan (2012) and Georgia’s Keturah Orji (2018).

“I am grateful for Coach (Dennis) Shaver, Coach Bennie (Brazell), and my ladies again at LSU,” Richardson mentioned. “I am grateful for them as a result of with out them I do not know the way I might have made it by means of the season. Their love and assist have been a driving pressure for me to need to do higher, to need to go sooner, and to be larger for the legacy of LSU.”

Richardson cemented her standing as one of many all-time greats in collegiate monitor and discipline along with her efficiency on the NCAA Championships in June at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas. She scored a complete of 20 factors for LSU to earn Excessive Level Scorer of the Meet honors and lead LSU to a third-place staff end all whereas setting a plethora of information.

She ran a 10.75, allow us to repeat that, a 10.75 within the 100 meter finals to win her first NCAA title and set the collegiate report. Solely eight girls in world historical past have run sooner than 10.75 and Richardson did that as a freshman. The three quickest runners in NCAA historical past over 100 meters belong to LSU with Richardson’s 10.75, Daybreak Sowell’s 10.78 in 1989, and Aleia Hobbs’ 10.85 in 2017.

Within the finals of the 200 meters on the NCAA out of doors meet, she ran a PR of 22.17 to take silver and stake declare to the fifth-fastest time in NCAA historical past. She additionally anchored LSU’s 4×100 meter relay staff to silver with the eighth-fastest readout in NCAA historical past, a 42.29.

Each these numbers, 10.75 within the 100 meters and 22.17 within the 200 meters, are U20 world information which might be nonetheless pending ratification. Including on to these information, with the 10.75 and 22.17 she grew to become the primary girl in world historical past, of any age, to run sub 10.eight within the 100 and sub 22.2 within the 200 meters on the identical day.

Just a few weeks earlier on the SEC Outside Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., Richardson made some extra historical past. She grew to become the primary freshman in SEC historical past to comb titles within the 100 meters (11.00w) and 200 meters (22.57), and run as a member of a profitable 4×100 meter squad. She was named the SEC Freshman Observe Athlete of the 12 months for her performances outside.

Richardson didn’t lose a race within the 100 meters to a collegian all 12 months lengthy. She went 10-Zero in all races, 5-Zero in finals. She is the primary freshman to win the NCAA title and have an undefeated report within the 100 meters in a season. She grew to become solely the third freshman to win a 100 meter sprint NCAA title becoming a member of USC’s Angela Williams (1999) and Oregon’s Ariana Washington (2016).

Richardson closed out her profession as a four-time All-American, she owns 4 LSU top-10 marks within the report e-book, and she or he received a complete of 13 finals’ races in 2019 on the collegiate circuit. A local of Dallas, Texas, Richardson is now an expert runner for Nike.