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Eastern Kentucky University Athletics

2017-18 Track & Field Roster

Joseph Garnett

Jamaine Coleman

  • Position Distance
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Preston, England
  • High School Archbishop Temple
  • Prev School Archbishop Temple

Biography

Personal Bests:
800m - 1:53.54
1500m - 3:48.3
Mile - 4:05.58
3000m ST - 8:34.1
3000m - 8:14.00
5000m - 14:23.8

National/Regional Honors:
Cross Country - NCAA Championship Participant (2015); All-OVC, Second Team (2016)
Outdoor Track - Second Team All-America, 3,000-meter steeplechase (2017); Regional Qualifier (2017, 2016); OVC Male Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year (2017)

OVC Individual Championships:
Indoor Track – Mile (2017)
Outdoor Track – 3,000m steeplechase (2017); 1,500m (2017)

Cross Country – Named second team All-OVC after finishing 10th at the OVC Championships in an 8K time of 25:21.5 … helped lead the EKU men to their 10th consecutive OVC title … clocked a personal-best 8K time of 24:33.1 at the Notre Dame Invitational on September 30.
Track and Field – Established himself as one of the top steeplechasers in the country … earned second team All-America honors after finishing 13th in the steeplechase at the NCAA Championships with a time of 8:43.8 … advanced to the NCAA Championships after placing second at the NCAA East Region Preliminaries with a personal-best time of 8:34.1 … that time is the third fastest in EKU history and is less than a second off Ole Hesselbjerg’s school record … lost only to eventual NCAA champion Edwin Kibichiy of Louisville at the regional meet … voted OVC Male Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year … doubled up and won gold in both the steeplechase and the 1,500 meters at the OVC Outdoor Championships in May … won the steeplechase with a time of 8:42.8 at the Virginia Challenge on April 22 … also clocked a personal-best time of 3:48.3 in the 1,500 meters at the Virginia Challenge … won gold in the mile at the OVC Indoor Championships in February, recording a personal-best time of 4:05.5 … also posted personal-best times in the 3,000 meters (8:14.0) and 800 meters (1:53.5) during the indoor season.

2015-16:
Cross Country – Emerged as one of EKU’s top contributors during the cross country season, helping the Colonels reach the NCAA Championships for the fifth consecutive season … finished fifth on the team and 173rd overall at NCAAs with a 10K time of 31:38.4 … his performance helped EKU finish 17th in the country … ran a personal-best 8K time of 24:41.4 at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational on Oct. 15.
Track and Field – Ran a personal-best 8:53.7 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase to finish 19th out of 45 competitors at the NCAA East Region Preliminary Rounds in Jacksonville … qualified for regionals with an 8:55.8, which he ran at the Stanford Invitational on April 1 … took silver in the steeplechase at the OVC Outdoor Championships, clocking a time of 9:04.6 … also ran a personal-best for 5,000 meters during the outdoor season, running 14:23.9 at the Virginia Challenge on April 22 … was a member of EKU’s gold medal winning distance medley relay team at the OVC Indoor Championships … also won bronze in the 3,000 meters at the OVC Indoor Championships with a time of 8:27.0 … ran a personal-best for 3,000 meters earlier in the indoor season, clocking an 8:19.43 at the Indiana Gladstein Invitational on Feb. 12. 

2014-15:
Cross Country – Redshirted the cross country season.
Track and Field – Took silver in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the OVC Outdoor Championships with a personal-best time of 9:00.36 ... also recorded outdoor season best times of 3:51.51 in the 1,500 meters and 8:22.29 in the 3,000 meters ... scored 16 points overall at the OVC Indoor Championships, helping the EKU men’s team finish fourth … finished seventh in the 800 meters (season-best 1:54.70 in the preliminaries) and mile (4:19.88) at the indoor championships … was also a member of the distance medley relay team, which took silver, and the 4x400 meter relay team, which finished fifth …  recorded indoor season best times of 4:16.04 in the mile and 9:00.47 in the 3,000 meters.

Prior to EKU: Two time English Secondary Schools Champion in the 2000m steeplechase ... finished 12th in the British trials for the 2013 European Junior Cross Country Championships ... finished 16th in the Junior Division of the 2014 Bupa Great Edinburgh International ... won the 2000m steeplechase at the 2014 English Secondary Schools Championships in a personal record of 5:51.63, and the 3000m at the 2014 Trafford Grand Prix in a personal record of 8:22.29.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

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  • 2015-16Sophomore

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  • 2016-17Junior

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  • 2017-18Senior

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