Tasha Stanley

Position:
Sprints/Hurdles
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Temple Hills, Md.
High School:
Eleanor Roosevelt

Stanley's PRs
• 400- 55.20
• 800- 2:05.42

Junior Year: Placed second in the 800 at the ACC Indoor Championships and helped the women's 4x400 take second and the women's 4,000m DMR take eighth • Helped women's 4x400 team to ACC Outdoor title and also took third in the 800 • Competed at NCAA Regionals in the 800 • Competed at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 4x400

Sophomore Year: Placed second in the 800 at ACC Indoor Championships with a season best time 2:08.32• Placed third in the 4x400 and fifth in the 800 at ACC Outdoor Championships• Competed in the 4x400 at NCAA Outdoor Championships

Freshman Year: All-American indoor in the 400-meters • Member of the ACC Indoor champion 4x400-meter relay • Tagged two All-ACC nods with a fifth place finish in the 800 at the ACC Indoor Championships and a second place finish at the ACC Outdoors • Took first in the 800-meters at the Duke Invitational.

Prep: Holds 500m indoor Maryland state track record • 2007 Maryland Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year • Five-time All Metropolitan Area Athlete of the Year • Anchored the winning 4x800 relay at Penn Relays in 2007 • Twice selected as the Most Valuable Player at the Penn Relays • Three-time Indoor 800m State Champion • Three-time indoor 500m state champion • 500m state champion • Member of the American High School 4x800m record holding team • A part of the four-time indoor and outdoor state championship team • Two-time outdoor 800m state champion • Selected to represent the United States at the Caribbean Scholastic Invitational in Puerto Rico where she won the 800m • Named Gazette Indoor Female Athlete of the Year in 2008, Gazette Outdoor Female of the Year for 2008, and Gazette Outdoor Athlete of the Year in 2007 • Graduated with honors in the top 5 percent of her class • Member of the National Honor Society • Interned at Maryland Health Center of Pediatrics, a field she hopes to pursue.

Personal: Undecided major • Enjoys Reading, traveling, shopping, working out and spending time with family • Admires athlete Allyson Felix • Names her mother as having the most influence on her athletic career • Favorite book is "Sorority Sisters" • Favorite food is chicken and broccoli pasta • Favorite movie is "Love and Basketball" • Favorite show is "Baldwin Hills" • Tasha Lee Stanley is the daughter of Shan Hodges • Born June 9, 1990, in Baltimore, Md.