Clay­ton Clarke

Ale­na Brooks (Min­neso­ta Uni­ver­si­ty) was named the Big Ten Con­fer­ence In­door Track ath­lete of the week af­ter plac­ing sec­ond in the women's 800m event at the Meyo In­vi­ta­tion­al in Ida­ho on Feb­ru­ary 2 set­ting a per­son­al best time of 2:06.24.

The time pushed the Diego Mar­tin Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary grad­u­ate to num­ber two on Min­neso­ta's all time per­form­ers list. Her time al­so put the Mem­phis Pi­o­neer run­ner in­to first place in the Big Ten and sixth in the NCAA.

The 2010 World Ju­nior 800m semi­fi­nal­ist al­so led Min­neso­ta to vic­to­ry in the dis­tance med­ley re­lay. The mul­ti­ple Carif­ta medal­list be­came the first stu­dent from her uni­ver­si­ty to cap­ture an In­door Ath­lete of the Week ho­n­our since Feb­ru­ary 2011.

Brooks is the third T&T ath­lete to cop an ath­lete-of-the-week ho­n­our dur­ing the 2013 sea­son, fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of Em­manuel Stew­art (Mor­gan State) and De­an­dra Daniel (Cop­pin State) who were named as top per­form­ers in Jan­u­ary. Brook is pur­su­ing a de­gree in Ki­ne­si­ol­o­gy at Min­neso­ta.