Kristen Dowell Season 2017-18

TFRRS All-Time Performances

Personal Bests
Indoor
60m: 7.86 (1/21/17)
200m: 25.35 (1/21/17)
400m: 55.57 (2/17/17) 
600m: 1:36.00 (2/6/16)
60m Hurdles: 8.57 (2/24/17)
Outdoor
200m: 25.15 (4/15/17)
100m Hurdles: 13.70 (5/16/15)
400m Hurdles: 59.41 (4/23/16)

Big Ten Championships
2017 (O): 100m Hurdles - 13.91p (13th)
2017 (I): 60m Hurdles - 8.57p (14th); 4x400 - 3:40.57 (8th); DMR - 11:29.14 (9th)
2016 (O): 100m Hurdles - 13.75p (15th); 400m Hurdles - 1:00.88p (14th)
2016 (I): 60m Hurdles - 8.82p (22nd)
2015 (O): 100m Hurdles - 13:70 (9th); 4x100 - 46.54 (7th)
2015 (I): 60m Hurdles - 8.74 (22nd)

Honors
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2017, 2018)
Academic All-Big Ten (2016, 2017, 2018)
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award (2016, 2017, 2018)
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2016)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2015, 2016, 2017; Spring 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Nebraska Sam Foltz Hero 27 Leadership Award (2016, 2017)
Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2016, 2017, 2018)

2017 (Junior)
Indoor: Set a PR and placed 14th in the 60m hurdles at the Big Ten Indoor Championships with a time of 8.57 in prelims, a personal best...placed eighth with the 4x400m relay and ninth with the DMR team in a time of 11:29.14, the No. 7 time in NU history on any size of track...took second in the 400m at the Nebraska Tune-Up with a PR 55.57...placed second at the Holiday Inn Invitational in the DMR with a time of 12:14.16...set indoor PRs in the 60m (7.86) and 200m (25.35).

Outdoor: Placed 13th in the 100m hurdles at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a time of 13.91 in prelims...set a PR and placed ninth in the 200m at the Red Raider Shootout with an outdoor-best time of 25.15.

2016 (Sophomore)
Indoor: Placed 22nd in the 60m hurdles at the Big Ten Indoor Championships with a time of 8.82...set a season best in the 60m hurdles (8.65) at the Nebraska Tune-Up...finished fourth in the 600m with a personal-best time of 1:36.00 at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational...was a member of the first-place 4x400m relay team that finished with a mark of 3:47.03 at the Nebraska Tune-Up.

Outdoor: Finished 38th at the NCAA West Preliminary Round in the 400m hurdles (1:00.64)...took 14th at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:00.88...placed 15th at the conference meet in the 100m hurdles with a season-best 13.75...posted a personal best in the 400m hurdles (59.41) to claim second place at the Kansas Relays.

2015 (Freshman)
Indoor: Competed in seven meets including the Big Ten Indoor Championships...finished 22nd in the 60m hurdles at the Big Ten meet with a time of 8.74...set season bests in the 60m hurdles (8.68) and 200m (25.56)...won the 4x400m title (3:45.05) at the Nebraska Tune-Up.

Outdoor: Placed ninth in the 100m hurdles at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a time of 13.70...also placed seventh with the 4x100m relay team in 46.54...competed in the 100m hurdles at the NCAA West Preliminary Round...set a 100m shuttle hurdle relay school record of 54.86 at the Drake Relays...won the 400m hurdles title at the Concordia Mid-Week Challenge in 1:04.05...set a 400m hurdle season best of 1:02.79 at the Pac-12 vs. Big Ten Invitational...named to the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll during spring semester.

Before Nebraska
Joined Nebraska from Edwardsville High School in Edwardsville, Illinois…recorded prep bests of 14.10 in the 100m hurdles and 42.77 in the 300m hurdles…finished third in the 300m hurdles in 42.77 at the Illinois Class 3A State Championships, while also taking sixth in the 100m hurdles with a time of 14.63.

Personal
Born March 13, 1996...parents are Roscoe and Priscilla...major is restaurant and tourism management.