The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2020 Top Track and Field Performers: Brooke Jaworski
05.18.2020 | Track & Field / Cross Country
The freshman sprinter won three Big 12 titles in her first collegiate season.
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Track and Field freshman sprinter Brooke Jaworski played a key role in helping the UT women win their third-straight Big 12 Indoor title, as she won three individual conference titles in her first collegiate season. Jaworski's victories came in the 600-yard run, and as part of the Longhorn's 4x400-meter relay and DMR teams.
Jaworski, a Wausau, Wisconsin native, was one of three Longhorns, alongside Julien Alfred (60m, 200m, 4x400m) and Kathryn Gillespie (800m, Mile, DMR), to win three conference titles at the Big 12 Indoor Championships. Together, they become the first UT women to win three indoor conference titles in the same season since Marshevet Hooker in 2006.
Jaworski's individual medal in the 600-yard run came after she clocked 1.20.69 in Friday's preliminary heats, and a 1:19.14 in the final. Her mark in the final made her the fifth-best performer (No. 6 performance) in the event in UT history, and the fastest since Courtney Okolo (1:18.24) at the 2015 Big 12 Indoor Championships.
The Wisconsin state-record holder in the 400-meter dash, 300-meter hurdles and 4x400-meter relay, Jaworski opened her collegiate career at the FasTrak Collegiate Opener in Houston, Texas back in December. There, she clocked a 2:13.41 in the 800-meter run, outpacing the field by almost three seconds to top the podium in her first collegiate race.
In her next competition, the Leonard Hilton Invitational one month later, Jaworski ran a personal-best 2:10.92 in the 800-meter race, placing second. Jaworski also impressed at other distances as a freshman, clocking 54.29 and placing second in the 400-meter dash at the Razorback Invitational (Fayetteville, Arkansas) and taking third in the 600-meter run (1:30.55) at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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