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Destiny Carter - Women's Track & Field - University of Kentucky Athletics

DestinyCarter

  • class Senior
  • Previous School Iowa Central CC
BIO

Personal bests  — 60m: 7.30 | 100m: 11.35 | 200m: 22.41 (23.39 indoor) |  LJ: 21’4.25″/6.51m (20’10″/6.35m indoor)

Career Capsule
– Three-time All-America in her junior season after transferring from Iowa Central
– National JuCo Long Jump Champion in 2015

Notables
– SEC Bronze Medal – 2016 Indoor 4x400m Relay
– SEC Scorer in both the long jump and 200m in 2016 outdoors, and 2017 indoors
– 2017 NCAA long jump qualifier (indoor)
– Two-time First-Team All-America (2016 4x100m relay and indoor 4x400m relay)
– Second-Team All-America (2016 Outdoor 100m – 12th overall)

2017 (senior)
Indoor – NCAA qualifier in the long jump … Scored in both the long jump and 200m at SEC Indoor Championships

2016 (junior)
Outdoor – First-Team All-America in the 4x100m relay running the third leg of UK’s fifth-place team … Second-Team All-America in the 100m where she placed 12th at NCAAs … Also qualified for NCAAs in the 200m … NCAA East Prelims qualifier in the long jump as well … Scored in the LJ and 200m at SECs.
Indoor – First-Team All-America in the 4x400m relay … Earned the SEC Bronze Medal in the 4x400m relay, and also scored in the long jump and 200m at SECs.

Prior to UK
National Junior College long-jump champion … Placed third in the National JuCo 100m and fourth in the 200m … She ran the first leg of Iowa Central’s National JuCo Championship 4x100m relay.  She owns a long jump PR of 20’5.75”/6.24m and personal bests of 7.39 at 60m, a 100m best of 11.28 and a 200m best of 23.24.

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