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2011-12 Women's Track & Field Roster

Manika Gamble

  • Position Sprints/Hurdles
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Jacksonville
  • Hometown Jacksonville, N.C.

Biography

Collegiate Bests:
Indoor 60m: 7.87 (2010)
Indoor 200m: 25.04 (2010)
Indoor 300m: 40.20 (2012)
Indoor 400m: 55.93 (2009)
Indoor 60m Hurdles: 8.70 (2010)
Outdoor 200m: 24.93 (2010)
Outdoor 100m Hurdles: 13.96 (2010)
Outdoor 400m Hurdles: 58.56 (2010)

2011-12: Placed sixth in the 400-meter and 11th in the 300-meter at the Virginia Tech Invitational with times of 40.20 in the 300-meter and 57.71 in the 400-meter ... Took sixth place in the 60-meter hurdles finishing the race in 8.97 at the CNU Invitational ...  Also was the sixth collegiate finisher in the 200-meter with a time of 26.47 ... Placed second at the UNC Invitational in the 200-meter race with a time of 25.43 ... Also set an HPU school record in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.66. 

2010-11: Won the 400-meter hurdles for the third season in a row at the Big South Championship, cruising in at 1:00.52; also ran a stellar leg on HPU's fourth-place 4x400 relay ... Advanced to the quarterfinals of the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA East Preliminary, placing 16th overall ... Runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles in a season-best 59.09 at the Kent Taylor Texas Roadhouse Carolina Invite ... Ran a season-best 14.12 to place sixth in the 100-meter hurdles and was runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles at the Johnson C. Smith Invitational ... Indoors, placed sixth in the 60-meter hurdles and eighth in the 400-meter at the Big South Championship ... Ran a season-best 8.71 to place seventh in the 60-meter hurdles at the VT Invitational.

2009-10: Set the HPU record at 25.04 in the indoor 200-meter at the Virginia Tech Challenge ... Won the 60-meter hurdles at the Liberty Kickoff and Gene Anderson UNC Invitational ... Competed in five events at the Big South Indoor Championship, taking fifth in the 60-meter hurdles and 200-meter, eighth in the 60-meter dash and running on the winning distance medley relay and fifth-place 4x400 relay ... Ran a career-best 7.87 in the 60-meter in the preliminaries at the Big South Championship ... Ran a season-best 56.06 in the 400-meter at the Virginia Tech Final Qualifier ... Opened the outdoor season with a career-best 14.18 in the preliminaries before setting an HPU record of 13.96 in the finals of the 100-meter hurdles at the Wake Forest Open; also took fourth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:00.85 ... set the HPU and Big South record of 58.56 in the 400-meter hurdles at the Pepsi Florida Relays, placing 10th in a national-class field ... Placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles (14.29) and ran a career-best 24.93 to place seventh in the 200-meter at the Joe Hilton Carolina Fast Times meet at UNC ... Won the 400-meter hurdles by over three seconds with her time of 59.62, placed second in the 100-meter hurdles (14.08) and ran on the sixth-place 4x400 relay at the Big South Championship ... Won the 400-meter hurdles in 58.98 at the HPU VertKlasse Meeting ... Placed 39th in the 400-meter hurdles at the first round of the NCAA Championship.

2008-09: Named 2009 Big South Indoor Track & Field Freshman of the Year ... Set HPU records of 8.45 in the indoor 55-meter hurdles, 55.93 in the indoor 400-meter and 59.66 in the outdoor 400-meter hurdles ... Won the 55-meter hurdles in an HPU-record 8.46 and took third in the 200-meter at the Appalachian State Open ... Ran a season-best 25.56 in the 200-meter at the Virginia Tech Challenge ...  Was runner-up in the 60-meter hurdles in a season-best 8.86, took fourth in the 400-meter (57.31) and ran on the winning distance medley relay at the Big South Championship ... School-record 55.93 in the 400-meter came at the Virginia Tech Last Chance meet ... Opened the outdoor season finishing third in 1:00.70 in the 400-meter hurdles at the Wake Forest Open ... At the Big South Outdoor Championship, won the 400-meter hurdles in 1:00.55 and ran a season-best 14.44 to place second in the 100-meter hurdles ... Set the HPU record of 59.66 while placing second in the 400-meter hurdles and also took second in the 100-meter hurdles at HPU's VertKlasse meet ... Millis Scholar-Athlete.

Prep: Earned All-Conference, All-Regional and All-State honors at Jacksonville High School ... Set the school record in the 300-meter hurdles… Two-time North Carolina State 3A Champion in the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles … Named Track Athlete of the Year… Honor Roll student.

Personal: Human Relations major ... Daughter of Randy Gamble and Nicole Jones ... Has one brother, Christopher, and two sisters, Monet and Kimberly ... Born Manika Katrene Gamble on Dec. 13, 1989.

Historical Player Information

  • 2009-10Sophomore

    Sprints/Hurdles
    5'8"
  • 2010-11Junior

    Sprints/Hurdles
    5'8"
  • 2011-12Senior

    Sprints/Hurdles
    5'8"