2018-19 Track and Field Roster
Edwards, Laura

Laura Edwards
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Lexington, Ky.
- High School:
- Dunbar
Bio
2016-17 (Sophomore)
Indoor:
High School:
Personal:
Indoor:
- Competed in four meets
- Took third in the 200m Dash (25.69) at the Chicagoland Championships (2/10)
- Took 11th in 200m Dash (25.38) at the preliminaries for the BIG EAST Indoor Championships (2/24)
- Took third in the 400m Dash (57.98) at the Chicagoland Championships (2/10)
- Took 13th in the 400m Dash (58.01) at the preliminaries for the BIG EAST Indoor Championships (2/24)
- A member of the 4x400 relay team that took fourth (3:57.55) at the Blue & Gold Invitational (12/2)
- A member of the 4x400 relay team that won (3:54.36) the Chicagoland Championships (2/10)
- A member of the 4x400 relay team that took fourth (3:50.35) at the BIG EAST Indoor Championships (2/25).
Outdoor:
- Competed in seven meets
- Took sixth in 200m Dash (24.98) at the preliminaries for the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships (5/12)
- Took sixth in 200m Dash (25.15) at the finals for the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships (5/13)
- Took seventh in the 400m Dash (57.39) at the preliminaries for the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships (5/12)
- Took seventh in the 400m Dash (57.47) at the finals for the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships (5/13)
- A member of the 4x100 relay team that won (47.14) the Benedictine NCAA Challenge (4/8)
- A member of the 4x100 relay team that took second (46.70) at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships (5/13)
- A member of the 4x400 relay team that took fifth (3:57.05) at the Lenny Lyles-Clark Wood Invite (4/29)
- A member of the 4x400 relay team that took third (3:48.69) at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships (5/13).
Indoor:
- Competed in four meets
- Set a career best in the 200m dash at the Notre Dame Invitational (1/23) with a time of 26.31
- Ran a 42.35 in the 300m dash at the Hoosier Open (12/11), setting a new career best
- Finished sixth in the 400m dash at the Blue & GOld Invitational (12/4) after a run of 59.97, a new career best
- A member of the 4x400m relay team that finished third at the Blue & Gold Invitational (12/4) with a time of 3:56.54.
Outdoor:
- Saw action in five meets
- Finished fifth in the 200m dash at the DePaul Invitational (4/16) with a time of 26.02
- Set a career best in the preliminaries of the 200m dash at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championship (5/13) with a time of 25.28
- Took second in the 400m dash at the DePaul Invitational (4/16) with a time of 57.51
- Ran a 57.60 in the 400m dash at the Illinois Open (5/4) finishing second
- Set a career best in the 400m dash at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championship (5/13) with a time of 57.39
- A member of the 4x400m relay team that won the event at the DePaul Invitational (4/16) with a time of 4:03.40.
High School:
- Finished in the state of Kentucky's top-10 for the 400m dash from 2012-15
- Peaked with a third-place finish in 2015 along with third in the 200m
- Part of the top high school sprint medley relay in Kentucky
- Broke records in the 4x100, 4x200 and 400m events.
Personal:
- Born on March 4, 1997
- Daughter of Tia and Sean Edwards and Linda Higgins
- Has one brother, Sean, and two sisters, Kamara and Kadyn
- Biology major.
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