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2019-20 Track & Field Roster

Venida Fagan

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Chamblee HS
  • Hometown Stone Mountain, Ga.

Biography

Personal Bests:
60m (I) 7.84 Nittany Lion Challenge (1/12/19)
200m (I) 25.41* Clemson Bob Pollock Indoor Invitational (1/27-28/17)
200m (O) 24.89 Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/3/19)
300m (I) 39.78 Penn State National (1/25-26/19)
400m (I) 56.46 Music City Challenge (2/8-9/19)
400m (O) 55.38 Virginia v. Maryland v. Pitt v. West Virginia (4/6/19)
Competed with UCF*

2020 Indoor (Senior): Opened indoor season at the Nittany Lion Challenge (1/11) in the 200m dash (25.64)... took home 4th in the 300m (41.40) at the Terrapin Invitational (1/18)...competed in the 400m (57.20) and 4x400m relay (3:47.43) at the Rod McCravy Memorial (1/24)...ran the 400m (57.41) at Penn State National (2/1)...competed in the 400m (56.99) and took home 4th in the 4x400m (3:44.77) at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite (2/8)...took home third place with a season-best 400m (56.83) at Navy Select (2/21)...competed in both the distance medley relay (11:56.87) and the fifth-place 4x400m relay (3:39.63) teams at the Big Ten Indoor Championships (2/29)

2019 Outdoor (Junior): Helped relay team with the 4x400m (3:50.29) at the Maryland Invitational (3/16)...finished 8th in the 400m (56.62) at the North Florida Spring Break Invitational (3/21-22)...helped relay team place 3rd in the 4x400m and finished 7th in the 16000m sprint medley relay (3:56.53) at the Florida Relays (3/28-30)...helped elevate 4x400m relay team to a win (3:50.21) and placed 2nd with her personal best in the 400m (55.38) at the UVA Quad meet (4/6)...placed 8th in the 400m (55.87) at the Virginia Challenge (4/19-20)...helped elevate 1600m sprint medley relay team to a 1st place finish (3:58.45) and 6th in the 4x200m relay (1:37.00) at the Penn Relays (4/25-27)... finished first as a member of the 4x100m relay team (46.12) and fifth in the 200m dash (24.89) at the Kehoe Twilight Meet (5/3/19)... finished 12th in the 400m dash (55.58), eighth as a member of the 4x100m relay team (45.94) and sixth as a member of the 4x400m relay team (3:40.55) at the Big Ten Championships (5/10/19)... finished 21st as a member of the 4x400m relay team (3:37.92) at the NCAA East Prelims (5/23/19)

2019 Indoor (Junior): Finished 16th with her personal-best in the 60m (7.84) at the Nittany Lion Challenge (1/12)...placed fourth with her personal best in the 300m (39.78) at the Penn State National (1/25-26)...helped elevate the 4x400m relay team to 2nd place (3:42.27) at the Music City Challenge (2/8-9)...finished 7th in the 4x400m relay (3:44.17) and 11th in the distance medley relay (11:45.77) at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships 2/22-23)

Before Maryland: Transferred from University of Central Florida... won the 2017 AAC Indoor Conference Championships... finished second at the 2016 4A state championships... also ran for the Tachyon Track Club from 2008-16.

Personal: Born in Kingston, Jamaica... daughter of Glenford and Darion Fagan... father played collegiate soccer, mother competed in track & field in college... made spring 2017 Dean's list at UCF... member of the National Council of Negro Women and the Student-Athlete Leadership Institute... would play volleyball if she could play another sport at Maryland.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Junior

    Sprints
  • 2019-20Senior

    sprints