Charlotte Browning Featured in Track & Field News
Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Track and Field
Senior distance runner Charlotte Browning (Pullborough, England) had an impressive indoor campaign in 2010, capped off by winning the NCAA women's mile championship this past March. For her accomplishments, Browning is featured in the May 2010 edition of Track & Field News.
Browning is one of nine athletes featured in a section called "Making Tracks," which recognizes first-time NCAA Champions. The article says: "After clocking a mile PR of 4:31.24 on an oversized track, Florida's English junior first won the SEC (4:37.29) , then moved up from eighth in '09 to win the NCAA crown with a 4:35.66 effort."
Browning, the 2010 USTFCCCA South Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year, turned in an exceptional indoor campaign, leading to SEC individual championships in both the mile and 3,000-meter run. In accomplishing that feat, Browning became the first Florida women's distance runner to capture multiple individual events at the SEC Indoor Championships since Becki Wells did so in 1996.
She was the co-recipient (with teammate Shara Proctor) of the SEC's Cliff Harper Trophy, recognizing the high-points scorer at the indoor league championship.
Browning holds the fastest time in the nation in the women's mile this season at 4:31.24, both a school record and an NCAA automatic-qualifying time. Browning is the only athlete in school history to rank among the top-five all-time in both the women's mile and women's 3,000m.
The SEC Female Runner of the Week for Feb. 16, Browning now holds the Dempsey facility record for the women's mile at the prestigious Husky Classic at the University of Washington.
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