2015 Track & Field

Darriel Banks

  • Class Senior
  • High School Legacy High
  • Hometown North Las Vegas, Nev.

Biography

Academic Notes: Majoring in biomedical sciences.

Personal Bests: 55m (7.02) 60m (7.39) 100m (11.63) 200m (23.80) 400m (58.04)

2015: Defended her Big Sky Championship in the women's 60m dash at the Big Sky Indoor Championships with a time of 7.40 ... Posted a season-best time of 24.43 in the women's 200m preliminaries at the Big Sky Championships.

2014: Was the Big Sky Conference's top female sprinter the entire indoor season... Broke the NAU school record in the women's 60m dash with a time of 7.39... Big Sky Indoor Champion in the women's 60m dash... Had an impressive outdoor season to help the Lumberjack women to a team title... Took home a bronze medal in the 100m dash at the conference outdoor championships... Helped the women's 4x100 relay team to a fourth place finish at the conference meet as well

2013: Improved on a phenomenal freshman year by putting up two more marks on the NAU all-time record list across the indoor and outdoor seasons ... Ran the second-fastest 60-meter dash all-time at the Mountain T's Invitational (7.47) ... Ran the second-fastest prelim time in the 55-meter dash at Big Sky Indoors and scored in the event, finishing seventh ... Put up the second-fastest 100-meter dash (11.63) and third-fastest 200m time (23.80) in NAU history outdoors, both at the Double Dual in Tempe ... Took home the silver medal in the 100-meter dash, placed fourth in the 200 at Big Sky Outdoors, and anchored the bronze-medal 4x100-meter relay squad to the second-fastest time in school history (46.08) ... Advanced to the NCAA West Preliminary Round for the second-straight year, where she closed out her season with a 35th-place finish in the 100 (11.78) and a 33rd-place finish in the 200-meter dash (24.29).

2012: Enjoyed a stellar freshman campaign that saw her at the top of the women's sprint squad all spring ... Broke the NAU 60-meter dash record with a time of 7.52 in the prelims at the Big Sky Indoor Championships ... Earned All-Conference honors at the same meet in the 200-meter dash with a third-place finish and a season-best time of 24.67 ... Her team dominance continued into the outdoor season, running the Big Sky Conference's fastest and NAU's second-fastest all time 200-meter mark of the season (24.05) at the Double Dual, where she placed second overall ... Also ran a team-leading and personal best 100m time of 11.85 at the same meet ... Helped break an 18-year-old 4x100-meter relay record (45.99) ... Earned a podium finish twice at Big Sky Outdoors with a third-place finish in the 100-meter dash and a runner-up effort in the 4x100m relay.

High School: A 2011 graduate of Legacy High School ... Lettered four years in
Track and Field and one year in basketball ... In 2009 was the 200m Regional Champion as
well as MVP ... Took second at the state meet in 2010 and 2011 in the 100-meter dash,  completing a four year span of placing either runner-up or 3rd place in the event ... Ran the second leg of her school's 2011 state champion 4x100-meter relay team.

Personal: Born on April 6, 1993 in Las Vegas, Nevada ... Daughter of Darrell Banks
and Les and Shurnice Coleman ... Has one older sister, Breyanna.

Historical Player Information

  • 2012Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2013Senior

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  • 2014Junior

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  • 2015Senior

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