The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2019-20 Track & Field / Cross Country Roster
Roster
Destiny Collins
- Position:
- Distance
- Hometown:
- Temecula, Calif.
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Great Oak
- Major:
- Speech-Language Pathology
• Three-time Academic All-Big 12 (Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
• Three-time All-Big 12 Cross Country (2017-19)
• 2020 Big 12 Women’s Indoor Champion – DMR
COLLEGIATE BESTS & RESULTS VIA TFRRS
2019-20 (Senior)
OUTDOOR: 2020 season was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
INDOOR: Won the mile at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational in her season debut … helped the Longhorns clock the fifth-fastest 4x800m time in school history at the John Thomas Terrier Classic … ran a personal-best mile (4:43.05) at the 2020 Husky Classic … part of UT’s DMR team that won the Big 12 title .. also ran in UT’s DMR team at the Alex Wilson Invitational, where the Longhorns clocked 11:06.23 – the No. 2 performance in school history.
CROSS COUNTRY: Won individual medalist honors at the first two meets of the season, the Bear Twilight and Texas Invitational … ran a personal-best 5K (16:44.7) and placed seventh at the Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival … earned All-Big 12 honors behind a sixth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships in Waco, Texas … took home eighth place in the NCAA South Central Region Championships … finished her season by competing at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind.
2018-19 (Junior)
OUTDOOR: Opened her season with a personal-best 2:14.23 and third-place finish in the 800m at the Roadrunner Invitational … helped Texas win the DMR and placed third in the 1,500m at the 92nd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays … won the 1,500m at The Reveille Meet … ran a personal-best 4:19.16 in the 1,500m at the National Relay Championships … helped UT reach the podium with a second-place finish in the 4x1500m relay and a third-place finish in the 4x800m relay … was the bronze medalist in the 5,000m at the Big 12 Championships … logged a personal-best in the 5,000m (16:14.82) at the NCAA West Region Preliminary Rounds.
INDOOR: Began her indoor season with a third-place finish in the mile at the Clemson Invitational … ran a personal-best in the 3,000m (9:19.96) at the UW Invitational … placed eighth in the 3,000m and ninth in the 5,000m at the Big 12 Championships.
CROSS COUNTRY: Earned All-Big 12 honors after placing fourth at the Big 12 Championships … represented the Longhorns in every meet … ran the NCAA Championships in a time of 21:46.7 … finished seventh at the NCAA South Central Regional … placed fourth in the Arturo Barrios Invitational … competed in the Nuttycombe Invitational … won the Rice and Texas Invitationals, both 4K races.
2017-18 (Sophomore)
OUTDOOR: Did not compete.
INDOOR: Finished seventh in the mile at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic … ran a personal-best 9:40.20 in the 3,000m at the Texas A&M Quadrangular, placing second … clocked a personal-best 3,000m (9:35.57) en route to finishing eighth at the Big 12 Championships … also placed eighth in the 5,000m at the Big 12 Championships.
CROSS COUNTRY: Competed in all seven meets … was Texas’ top finisher at the Texas A&M Aggie Opener … won the Texas Invitational with a time of 13:42.60, leading the Longhorns to a first-place team finish … was Texas’ top finisher at the Notre Dame Invitational, Pre Nationals Invitational and at the Big 12 Championships … finished 10th overall at the Big 12 Championships, earning All-Big 12 honors for the first time … placed 10th overall at the NCAA South Central Regional and was the Longhorns’ top finisher in the NCAA Championships.
2016-17 (Freshman)
OUTDOOR: Finished seventh in the 1,500m at the Big 12 Championships … won the 3,000m at the Longhorn Invitational … a member of UT’s third-place DMR team at the Texas Relays.
INDOOR: Placed seventh in the mile at the Big 12 Championships, clocking in at 5:01.00 … ran a leg of the DMR that UT won at the Texas A&M 11-Team Invitational … the Longhorns finished in 11:33.5, a meet record.
CROSS COUNTRY: Raced in four of six meets for the Longhorns … placed 88th in her collegiate debut at the Notre Dame Invitational … finished 22nd at the NCAA South Central Regional to earn All-Region honors.
HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered all four years in both cross country and track and field … ran the 800m, 1,600m, 3,200m and 5,000m … was the 2015 California state champion in the 3,200m and cross country … helped her team to three consecutive state titles in Division I … part of the New Balance National Championships team in the 4xMile relay … CIF Division I Southern Section Cross Country champion in both 2013 and 2014 … CIF Southern Section champion in the 1,600m and 3,200m from 2014-16 … ran the 3,000m at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Colombia.
PERSONAL: Daughter of David and Buffy Collins … brothers are Brandon Watkins and David Collins Jr. … sister is Brittney Watkins … born in Portsmouth, Va.
