Look at her go

Bellarmine junior Denasha Mondy from Louisville was named the GLVC female track and field athlete of the week by league officials today. Denasha Mondy also known for her great abililties on the basketball court for the Lady Knights, shattered records, in record time this Track season. Running in her first collegiate track meet ever, she won both the 100 and 200 meter sprints in the Gerald England Invitational hosted by the University of Indianapolis.

In both the 100 at 12.07 seconds and 200 at 24.66 seconds were BU records. In fact,she shaved a second off the previous Bellarmine top 100 meter time of 13.02, set by Maisah Edwards during the 2005 season.

In addition, both of Mondy’s times met the provisional standard for the NCAA national outdoor meet this year. Currently Mondy is ranked first in both the 100 and 200. She has ran the 200 in 24.66 seconds with the next fastest time at 25.79; in the 100 she ran in 12.07 seconds with the next fastest time at 12.64. In track to be running ahead by a tenth of a second is doing quite well.

Mondy a graduate from Ballard High School was a three-time Kentucky High School Gatorade Athlete of the Year and won 10 individual state titles. She elected to play basketball in college, however, and has been the Knights starting point guard the last two seasons after playing her freshman year at the University of Evansville.

If you want to check out Mondy in action or the rest of the BU track team they will be back in action this weekend at the Cumberland Invitational.

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