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UTEP Miners

2017 Track and Field Roster

Tobi Amusan

  • Class Sophomore
  • High School Ode, Nigeria
  • Hometown Ijebu

Biography

2016 C-USA Track Athlete of the Year
2016 NCAA Outdoor All-American First Team
2016 Indoor All-American Second Team
2016 Olympian
2016 C-USA Outdoor Freshman of the Meet


2016 INDOOR:
Captured first place at the C-USA Indoor Championships in the 60m hurdles with a personal best of 8.23 … helped the women's team secure a team title at the C-USA Championships ... took third place in the 60m hurdles at the Texas A&M Invitational ... ran a personal best of 7.69 in the 60m at the Texas A&M Invitational … leaped a season-best 5.84m (19-02) in the long jump at the C-USA Championships earning points for the Miners.


2016 OUTDOOR: Notched the fourth-fastest time in the nation in the 100m hurdles (12.83) at the UTEP Invitational earning a spot at the NCAA West Preliminaries ... broke a 33-year old record with a time of with time registered at UTEP Invitational ... won first meet at Texas Relays in the 100m hurdles ... started the season with a second place finish at the UTEP Springtime with a time of 13.06 … captured gold at the C-USA Championships in the 100m hurdles posting a time of 13.06 … improved time by two-hundredths of a second (13.02) finishing in third place at the NCAA West Preliminaries … ran a 12.79w at the NCAA Championships taking home silver and earning All-American honors … took gold in the 200m running a time of 23.27 at the C-USA Championships … also claimed a second-place finish at the confernce meet jumping out to 6.06m in the long jump.

Historical Player Information

  • 2016Freshman

    Hurdles
  • 2017Sophomore

    Hurdles