Sonel Bezuidenhout
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- Height:
- 5-2
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- Hometown:
- Pretoria (Lyttelton), South Africa
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- Year:
- Sophomore
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- High School:
- Centurion HS
Bio
An experienced international runner, Sonel is beginning to emerge among the top distance runners on the squad following dramatic improvements during her first cross country season...was a middle-of-the-year addition to the Tech track & field program in 2014-15, joining the roster in January in time for the spring semester...she has competed in one season of track & field (2015) and her initial season on the cross country squad in the fall...has the potential to be an outstanding collegiate distance runner.
AT TECH (IN 2015-16): Ran in all seven meets during the 2015 cross country season...was fourth on the team in the first four meets, as well as at the NCAA Regional...finished third on the team at the OVC race when she ran her 5K career-best time of 19:09.1, which ranks as the 36th fastest 5K time in school history.
(IN 2014-15): Enrolled at Tennessee Tech in January and joined the track & field team in time to train and compete throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons...ran the mile, 3,00m and 5,000m during indoor season, and the 1,500m, 3,000m and 5,000m outdoors...top time at 3,000m was 10:43.19 outdoors at Vanderbilt...best time at 5,000m came at Austni Peay outdoors with an 18:50.7 effort...registered Tech's best time at 3,000m both indoors and outdoors, and team's top 5,000m outdoor performance.
BEFORE TECH: Began her running career in eighth grade, competiting initially in the 1,500m run...coached throughout high school by Dion Saayman, whose inspiration and guidance led her into regional and national competition, a level achieved by ranking among the top 12 in her age division...in 2013, she was ranked 8th nationally for girls under 17, and in 2014 she was 10th in the country for Junior Women runners.
PERSONAL: The daughter of Cornel and Sonja Bezuidenhout...born July 2996 in Dundee, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa...studying pre-physical therapy.
News mentions
Tennessee Tech runners and throwers set four more school records Saturday at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational, including a mark by D'Airrien Jackson in winning the 400-meter dash that is close to the Olympic Trials qualifying standard.
The assault on the school record books proved successful during the indoor season for the Tennessee Tech track & field team, and now coach Wayne Angel’s team turns its focus to the outdoor season, which gets underway this weekend at the Vanderbilt Black & Gold Invitational.
Na'Asha Robinson and Sarah Brandt each won individual championships and helped the Tennessee Tech track & field team post its highest point total in history at the 2016 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships at Tennessee State.
The Tennessee Tech track & field team earned five points Friday on the first day of the 2016 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships. More importantly, coach Wayne Angel's team will send five runners into the finals on Saturday.
Optimistically eyeing the best showing in school history, the Tennessee Tech track & field teams heads to Nashville this weekend to compete in the 2016 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships. The meet will be held Friday and Saturday at the Gentry Center on the campus of Tennessee State University.
The first four events of Vanderbilt’s Music City Challenge produced three personal best times Friday night by members of the Tennessee Tech track & field team.
After setting one school record and two personal best marks Friday night to open action at the Vanderbilt Invitational, the Tennessee Tech women's track & field team added another school record and five more career topping efforts Saturday to wrap up the squad's third weekend of action during the indoor season.
The Tennessee Tech women’s track & field team returns to action Sunday to compete in the Ed Temple Invitational at Tennessee State University. Second-year coach Wayne Angel sees more school records and career-best performances on the horizon from his squad.
Tennessee Tech runners broke four school records Saturday, including marks that had stood for 18 and 15 years, when the Golden Eagles opened the 2015-16 indoor season at the Vanderbilt Indoor Opener.