Personal information | |
---|---|
Nationality | United States |
Born | Rialto, California | June 11, 1993
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Weight | 160 lb (73 kg) |
Sport | |
Sport | Running |
Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres |
College team | USC Trojans |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 100m: 10.51 (Norwalk 2011) 200m: 20.55 (Eugene 2012) |
Davonte Stewart (born June 11, 1993) is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. He graduated from the University of Southern California in May 2015 with a degree in Communications [1] and is one of the top 200m runners on the West Coast. He was one of USC's top 400m runners. [2]
A native of Rialto, California, Stewart attended A. B. Miller High School in Fontana, California, where he burst onto the scene at the 2010 CIF Southern Section, winning both the 100 m and 200 m. [3]
At the 2010 CIF California State Meet, he was runner-up in the 200 m behind Remontay McClain. In 2011, he repeated as 100 m champion at the CIF SS meet, with a personal best of 10.51 s. [4] He was classified as a junior athlete for the 2012 season, and Stewart was eligible for the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
In his freshman year at USC, Stewart ran a 20.62 in the 200 m at the Trojan Invitational in Los Angeles. [5] He finished third in 200 m at the 2012 Pac-12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, behind only James Alaka and Aaron Brown. [6]
Quincy D. Watts is an American former athlete, and two time gold medalist at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Mark James Crear is a double Olympic medalist in the 110 m hurdles from the United States. In 1996 he was second behind Allen Johnson. Four years later he came in third behind Anier García and silver medalist Terrence Trammell. Mark's personal best was 12.98 seconds.
Kareem Kelly is a former American football wide receiver. He was selected by the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at USC.
Earl R. McCullouch is a retired American football wide receiver. McCullouch was the world record holder for the 110 meter men's high hurdle sprint from July 1967 to July 1969. When attending the University of Southern California, McCullouch was a member of the USC Trojan Football teams and the USC Track & Field teams in 1967 and 1968. The USC Track 4×110 yard relay team, for which McCullouch ran the start leg, set the world record in 1967 that remains today, as the metric 4 × 100 m relay is now the commonly contested event.
James Gilkes is a former sprinter from Guyana who specialised in the 200 metres.
Rodney Strachan is an American former high school and college competition swimmer, 1976 Olympic gold medalist, and physician with a specialization in internal medicine.
Carol Ann Rodríguez Taylor is a Puerto Rican sprinter. Her mother was an African American from New Orleans, and her father grew up in Yauco, Puerto Rico.
Herschel Curry Smith (1903–1983) was an American athletic coach in the sport of track and field at Compton Jr. College. He is also popularly known as the founder of the Compton Invitational, and the co-founder of the Los Angeles Invitational, both track meets located in Southern California, the United States of America. Smith was also a sprint athlete and world record holder. As a team member of the University of Southern California (USC) track team, in 1927 his relay team broke the world record in the 800-meter and 880-yard relay. Smith was the head coach of Compton College from 1928 to 1968 and was the founder of the Compton Invitational and its director from 1936 to 1969. Herschel was also the co-founder, with Al Franken, and the meet director of the first indoor track meet on the west coast. Known as the Los Angeles Invitational (1959), its name later (1969) developed into the primary sponsors name, the Sunkist Invitational. Smith coached many world-class athletes including record high-jumpers Cornelius Johnson and Charles Dumas. From 1940 to 1942, Smith served as president of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).
Ronell Joshua "Josh" Mance is an American sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He attends Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he has transferred after two years at the University of Southern California.
Remontay McClain is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres dash. While attending Covina High School, McClain ran the second-fastest 100 metres by a high school athlete in 2010, behind only Oliver Bradwell.
Reginald Wyatt is an American hurdler. He is the current holder of the NFHS record in the 300 meters intermediate hurdles at 35.02, set while winning a preliminary race at the CIF California State Meet on June 5, 2009 at Buchanan High School in Clovis, California. Wyatt won the State Meet the following day, but his time of 36.71 was not destined to be record material after he also won the 400 metres in 46.13 earlier at the same meet.
Johnathan Knight Cabral is an American-Canadian hurdler. He grew up in Agoura Hills, California and competed for the Agoura High School football team and track and field team. He attended the University of Oregon where he competed as a member of the track and field team.
Bryshon Lorenzo Nellum is an American sprinter. He graduated from University of Southern California in 2012 with a degree in Public Administration and Social Service Professions and is currently a graduate student.
Loudia Laarman is a Canadian sprinter of Caribbean origin who specializes in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4×100 m relay. She participated in the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics, winning a bronze medal in the 4×100 m relay.
Paul Wilson is an American athlete specializing in the pole vault. He was the world record holder in the event. The first vaulter to clear his age in feet. In 1967 he was the number-one ranked pole vaulter in the world, but his career was cut short by injury.
Jenna Elizabeth Prandini is an American track and field athlete who has competed in both sprinting and long jump. She is a two-time national champion at 200 meters, and a two-time Olympian in 2016 and 2020. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics as part of the United States 4x100 m relay team, and won a gold medal with the US 4x100 m relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Michael Arthur Norman Jr. is an American sprinter. He previously held the world best time in the indoor 400 meters at 44.52 seconds. Outdoors, his 43.45, set at the 2019 Mt. SAC Relays, is tied as the #4 on the all time list. In 2016, he became the world junior champion in both the 200 meters and 4×100 meter relay. In 2022, he became the world champion in both the 400 meters and 4x400 meter relay.
Kendall Ellis is an American sprinter. Ellis won gold in the 4x400 m relay and bronze in the Mixed 4x400 metres at the Tokyo Olympics. She competed in the 400 meters at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships, winning gold medals as a part of prelim 4×400 m relays. As a junior, Ellis took gold in the 4×400 m relay and bronze in the 400 meters at the 2015 Pan American Junior Championships.
Bernard "BeeJay" Robert Lee Jr. is an American track and field sprinter who specializes in the 100 m and 200 m. He was a member of the USA team in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, UK. He ran in the winning semi-final, and received a silver medal after the team placed second in the final.
Rachel McCoy is an American athlete who competes in the high jump.