2000: Reached provisional mark in the 400 meters with a 46.49 time and a second-place finish at the Big 12 Conference Indoor Championships ...Finished second in the 400 at the Norman Fall Meet with a 48.74 clocking ... Also placed third in the 400 at the Oklahoma Classic with a time of 48.76 ... Ran the first leg for Baylor’s 4x400-meter relay team that finished first with a school-record mark of 3:04.46 at the Big 12 indoor meet ... Also ran the opening leg of Baylor’s first-place 4x400 team at the Gator Invitational (3:07.69) and at the Houston Indoor Classic (3:09.64) ... Opened for mile relay team that reached provisional standards with a 3:10.30 mark to finish first at Oklahoma ... Ran the 400 just once during the outdoor season, placing second at the John Jacobs Invitational with a time of 46.58 ... Helped 4x400 team to first place at the Drake relays with a time of 3:05.33 ... Also ran third leg for the first-place 4x400 team at the Texas A&M Invitational (3:06.08) ... Ran second leg of Baylor’s 4x400 national champion team with a 3:01.45 mark at the NCAA Outdoor Championships ... Was Baylor’s top athlete in the 400-meter hurdles ... Had four first-place finishes in the event ... Reached provisional mark with 49.68 mark at the Michael Johnson Open ... Placed first at the Texas Relays with an automatic mark of 49.44 ... Won the Big 12 outdoor title with a 49.47 clocking ... Also won the Dr Pepper Invitational (50.76) ... Finished second at the NCAA outdoors with a 48.43. 1999: Provisionally qualified in the indoor 400 meters with a time of 47.21 ... That mark was good enough for a third-place finish at the Big 12 indoor meet ... Won the 400 title at LSU with a time of 48.79 ... Ran final leg of 4x400-meter relay team that automatically qualified a time of 3:07.08 at Virginia Tech ... Team won relay titles at LSU (3:11.99), Silver State Invitational (3:10.90), and USA Championships in Atlanta (3:07.96) ... Claimed the Big 12 indoor title with a time of 3:08.19 ... Ran on mile relay team that won in Norman, Okla., with a 3:12.49 ... Ran a 3:08.90 to finish third at the NCAA Championships ... During the outdoor season, won the national title in the 400-meter hurdles with a meet-record time of 48.68 ... Also took the Big 12 title with a time of 49.91 ... Won the event at ACU (49.97) and UCLA (50.52) ... Member of the 4x400 team that claimed titles at Florida (3:04.89), ACU (3:07.51), UCLA Triangular (3:05.34) and the Drake Relays (3:06.98) ... Best time of the season was a 3:02.73 at the NCAA Championships to place third ... Also ran on the mile relay that claimed the Big 12 title with a time of 3:07.68 ... Team also won titles at Dr Pepper Invitational (3:07.68) and the Michael Johnson Open (3:07.56) ... Member of 4x100 team that clocked a 39.97 for a third-place finish at the Big 12 meet ... Finished sixth at Texas A&M in the 400 with a time of 47.46. 1998: Emerged as one of Baylor’s best hurdlers ... During the indoor season, ran a 7.56 in the 55-meter hurdles ... Clocked a 8.09 in the 60-meter hurdles ... Finished first in the 400-meter hurdles with an automatic qualifying time of 49.89 ... Best mark of the season was at the Drake Relays, finishing third with a 49.86 ... Claimed second at the UTA open with a time of 50.26 ... Earned all-America honors as an alternate with the 4x400-meter relay team ... Ran the second leg at the Drake Relays when team clocked a 3:01.39 ... Ran second leg on mile relay team that recorded a 3:16.88. High School: Earned the Gatorade Texas Athlete-of-the-Year award as a senior at Westbury High School in Houston, Texas ... Is the current Texas state record holder in the 300-meter IH with a 35.76 clocking ... Is also the national record holder in the 400 IH with a time of 50.8 ... Earned high school all-America honors for the 300 and 400 intermediate hurdles ... Received the Houston scholar athlete award ... Was also the state runner up in the 300 IH as a junior ... Followed that with state titles in the 110 and 300 hurdles during senior year. Personal: Born April 17, 1980 ... Son of Joy and Fransisco Kamani ... Information systems major ... Sister, Nzingah, ran the hurdles for Baylor, finishing last season. |
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