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2012-13 Women's Track and Field

Kalena Franklin

Kalena Franklin

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2012-13: Recorded 11 first-place finishes during the indoor season and finished in the top five of every event she competed in up to nationals...Won the 60 meter hurdle event at the Laker Early Bird (8.64), Holiday Open (8.52), Mike Lints Alumni Open (8.57), GVSU-SVSU Dual (8.54), GVSU Big Meet (8.39), GVSU Tune-Up (8.63) and the GLIAC Indoor Championship (8.41)...Ran a season-best 200 meter time of 24.76 seconds at the GLIAC Indoor Championship during prelims...Won the 60 meter hurdles (8.41) and helped the 4x400 meter relay team to victory at the GLIAC Indoor Championship (3:45.84)...Earned a USTFCCCA All-American at the 2013 NCAA Division II Indoor Championships with a sixht-place finish in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.41 seconds...Also ran with the 4x400 meter team at nationals, helping the squad to a 10th-place finish with a time of 3:47.41...Recorded eight first-place finishes during the outdoor season and finished in the top five of every individual event she competed in up to nationals...Won the 100 meter hurdle event at the GVSU-SVSU Dual (14.24-w), Hillsdale Invite (14.51) and GLIAC Outdoor Championship (13.64-w)...Won the 200 meter dash at the GVSU-SVSU Dual (24.55-w)...Won the 400 meter dash at the Hillsdale Invite (56.41)...Helped the 4x400 meter relay team to victories at the GVSU-SVSU Dual (3:55.97), GLIAC Outdoor Championship (3:46.93) and GVSU Second To Last Chance Meet (3:45.87)...Ran a season-best 200 meter time of 24.57 seconds at the GLIAC Outdoor Championship...Had a season-best 100 meter hurdle time of 13.62 seconds at the GVSU Second to Last Chance Meet and outdoor nationals...Won the GLIAC Outdoor Championship in both the 100 meter hurdles (13.64-w) and 4x400 meter relay (3:46.93)...Earned an incredible three USTFCCCA All-American honors at the 2013 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championship with a fifth-place finish in the 100 meter hurdles (13.62) and 4x400 meter relay team (3:41.18), and also helped the 4x100 meter relay team to a sixth-place finish with a time of 45.58 seconds.

2011-12: Had eight first-place finishes during the indoor season...Won the 60 meter hurdles at the Holiday Open (8.73), GVSU-SVSU Dual (8.76) and GVSU Tune-Up (8.64)...Helped the 4x400 meter relay team to victories at the Holiday Open (3:53.69), Mike Lints Alumni Open (3:49.90), GVSU-SVSU Dual (3:52.26), GVSU Tune-Up (3:47.28) and the GLIAC Indoor Championship (3:50.27)...Finished second at the 60 meter hurdles at the GLIAC Indoor Championship with a season-best time of 8.48 seconds...Earned two USTFCCCA All-American honors at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships, finishing seventh in the 60 meter hurdles (8.53) and helping the 4x400 meter relay team to a third-place finish (3:48.46)...During the outdoor season, she was part of eight first-place finishes...Won the 100 meter hurdles at the Duke Invite (14.30), Hillsdale Invite (14.05), Aquinas Twilight (13.97w) and GVSU Last Chance Meet (13.84)...Helped the 4x400 meter relay team to victory at the Hillsdale Invite (3:51.03), Hillsdale Gina Relays (3:48.47), GLIAC Outdoor Championship (3:44.55), Aquinas Twilight (3:48.42) and GVSU 2nd to Last Chance Meet (3:48.03)...Finished fourth in the 100 meter hurdles at the GLIAC Outdoor Championship (13.96)...Earned a USTFCCCA All-American honor as part of the 4x400 meter relay team at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championship, finishing fourth with a time of 3:43.18...Also ran the 100 meter hurdles at the event, finishing 11th in prelims with a time of 13.94 seconds.

2010-11: During the indoor season, she finished outside the top 10 only three times in 16 events she ran...Finished second in both the 60 hurdles (9.19) and 300 meter dash (42.42) at the GVSU Lake Early Bird...Finished sixth in the 60 hurdles at both the Bob Eubanks Open (9.16) and Mike Lints Alumni Open (9.25)...Finished second in the 200 meter dash as the Indiana University Relays with a time of 26.05 seconds...At the SVSU vs GVSU Dual Meet, she won both the 60 hurdles (9.01) and was a part of the 4x400 relay team that won with a time of 4:00.87...Finished fourth at the GVSU Big Meet in the 60 hurdles with a time of 8.84 seconds...Finished third in the GLIAC Indoor Championships with a time of 8.88 seconds in the 60 hurdles...During the outdoor season, she had six top five finishes...Part of the 4x400 relay team that finished third at the Purdue Dave Rankin Invitational with a time of 4:19.04...Finished fourth in the 200 meter dash at both the ISU Pacesetter Invitational (25.71) and Ashland Alumni Open (25.77) where she also finished second in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 14.48 seconds...At the GLIAC Outdoor Championships, she finished third in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 14.27 seconds and finished seventh in the 200 meter dash with a time of 25.56 seconds...Won the Aquinas Twilight Invitational with a time of 14.19 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles.

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