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2009-10 Track & Field Roster

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  • SR
    Position
  • Freshman
    Class
  • Kilgore, Texas
    Hometown
  • 5'8
    Height
  • Kilgore
    High School
Courtney Thomas
Courtney Thomas
SR
Position
Freshman
Class
Kilgore, Texas
Hometown

Summary

Biography

• 2009 All-Big 12 Outdoors (4x100-Meter Relay) • 2009 All-Big 12 Indoors (200 Meters) • 2008 All-American Outdoors (4x100-Meter Relay) • 2008 All-Midwest Region (4x100-Meter Relay) • 2008 All-Big 12 Outdoors (200 Meters) • 2008 All-Big 12 Outdoors (4x100-Meter Relay) • 2008 All-Big 12 Indoors (200 Meters) • 2007 All-Midwest Region (4x100-Meter Relay) • 2007 Big 12 Outdoor Champion (4x100-Meter Relay) • 2007 All-Big 12 Outdoors (100 Meters) • 2007 All-Big 12 Indoors (60 Meters)

2009: NCAA Regional qualifier in the 100 meters and 200 meters...Took 13th at the NCAA Midwest Region in the 100 meters with a season-best time of 10.43...Also ran a season-best time of 20.84 in the 200 meters to finish 10th at the region meet...Earned All-Big 12 honors as the third leg on Baylor's runner-up 4x100-meter relay squad...Won the 200 meters at the Dr Pepper Invitational...Ran a 200-meter leg on Baylor's sprint medley relay team that won the Texas Relays title with a time of 3:15.96, the fastest time in the NCAA...During the indoor season, earned All-Big 12 honors with a fourth-place finish in the 200 meters at the Big 12 Indoor Championships...Season-best time of 21.20 in the 200 meters came in the preliminary heats at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational...Season-best time of 6.84 in the 60 meters came at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational...Recorded Top 5 finishes in the 200 meters in all four indoor meets in which he competed.

2008: Earned All-America honors as the third leg of the 4x100-meter relay that placed sixth at the NCAA Championships with a time of 39.47...Team clocked a season-best time of 39.37 at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships...Earned All-Midwest Region and All-Big 12 honors as the third leg of the 4x100-meter relay...Ran on Baylor[apos]s winning 4x100- and 4x200-meter relays at Drake Relays, helping the Bears to a record seven relay titles...Finished sixth in the 200 meters at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with a time of 20.88...Recorded a season-best time of 20.67 in the preliminaries at the conference meet...Won the 100 meters at the Dr Pepper Invitational with a season-best time of 10.46...Finished 20th at the NCAA Midwest Regional in the 200 meters with a time of 21.31...Finished 10th overall at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in the 100 meters with a time of 10.53...During the indoor season, finished fifth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the 200 meters with a time of 21.21...Recorded a season-best time of 21.08 in the preliminaries at the conference meet...Took third at the Husker Invitational with a time of 21.35 in the 200 meters...Finished ninth at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the 60 meters with a time of 6.81...Fastest time of the season of 6.80 came in a first-place finish at the Husker Invitational...Took second at the Sooner Open with a time of 6.81 in the 60 meters.

2007: Ran the third leg on Baylor[apos]s Big 12 champion 4x100-meter relay team that clocked 39.65...Also the third leg on Baylor[apos]s fastest time of the season in the sprint relay of 39.63 at Drake Relays...Qualified for the finals of the 100 meters at the Big 12 Championships with a time of 10.40...Earned All-Big 12 honors in the event, although he pulled up halfway through the finals with a hamstring injury...Struggled with injury at the Midwest Regional, finishing 17th in the 200 meters with a time of 21.48...Anchored Baylor to sixth place in the 4x100-meter relay at the Midwest Regional...Ran a personal-best 20.52, the fourth-fastest time in Baylor history, in the 200 meters in the preliminaries of the Big 12 Championships, but missed the finals due to an injury...Clocked a season-best time of 10.31 in the 100 meters at the Michael Johnson Classic...Ran on Baylor[apos]s 4x200-meter relay that clocked 1:21.65, the world[apos]s fastest time in 2007...Recorded three times under 21 seconds in the 200 meters...Helped Baylor to the 4x100-, 4x200-meter and sprint medley relay titles at the Drake Relays when Baylor won all four sprint relay titles (4x100-, 4x200-, 4x400- and sprint medley relays), the first time a time accomplished the feat since Illinois in 1944, a span of 63 years...During indoor, ran a time of 6.92 in the 60 meters to finish seventh at the Big 12 Championships, earning All-Big 12 honors...Clocked a season-fastest time of 6.81 in the 60 meters at the Sooner Open...Ran a season-best 21.38 in the 200 meters at the Last Chance Meet in Fayetteville, Ark.

2006: Did not compete in his first season at Baylor.

High School: As a senior, finished second in the state in the 100 and 200 meters...Ranked seventh nationally in the 100 meters with a personal-best of 10.49...Ranked 11th nationally in the 200 meters with a personal-best of 21.28...Also helped lead Kilgore (Texas) High School to the class 4A state football championship with a perfect 16-0 record...Earned second-team all-state honors at wide receiver.

Personal: Full name is Courtney Darrell Thomas...Born March 4, 1987, in Longview, Texas...Son of Fred and Alberta Burnett...Majoring in speech communications.