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Dezerea Bryant

Basic Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Born: 4/27/1993
  • Status: Active

Residences

  • Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
  • High School: Bradley Tech
  • College: University of Kentucky

Athlete Info

  • Event: Indoor Track & Field, Outdoor Track & Field
  • Agent: Tony Campbell
  • Sponsor: Nike

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World Athletics Championships

  • 2019 IAAF World Relays, gold (4x100m)
  • 2017 IAAF World Relays, bronze (4x200m)
  • 2012 World U20 Championships, gold (4x100m)
  • 2012 World U20 Championships, bronze (200m)
  • 2010 World U20 Championships, gold (4x100m)

Other Career Highlights

  • 2019 USATF Toyota Outdoor Championships, gold (200m)
  • 2018 NACAC Championships, fourth (100m)
  • 2018 NACAC Championships, gold (4x100m)
  • 2015 NACAC Championships, gold (4x100m)
  • 2015 NACAC Championships, bronze (200m)
  • 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships, gold (200m)
  • 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships, gold (200m)
  • 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships, silver (60m)

Personal

Boasts a broad array of accolades at multiple levels...Nine-time All-American and nine-time ACC Championship in her first two collegiate seasons...Swept the ACC short sprints both indoors and outdoors as a freshman in 2012, and won four more conference championships, including the 4x100m relay, last season...Bryant owns a IAAF World Junior Gold Medal in the 4x100m relay and a World Junior Bronze Medal at 200m...Was 2012 USA Junior Champion in the 100m to go along with USTFCCCA Southeast Region Indoor Track Athlete-of-the-Year and ACC Indoor MVP honors that year...Her 100m all-conditions best time is 11.26 with a wind-legal best of 11.36...She also boasts a 60m PR of 7.19 and a 200m best of 22.88 (22.54 all-conditions)...Majored in Therapeutic Recreation...Two of her brothers died in 2012; one in a car accident after a botched robbery and the other was shot at a house party and died in surgery...Is first person in her family to graduate from college...Grew up in inner city Milwaukee.

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