University of South Dakota Athletics

Career Bests

2018-19
Indoor Track & Field
Took ninth in the 60 meters and 13th in the 200 meters at the Summit League Championships … clocked a season best time of 7.02 seconds for 60 meters in the preliminaries at the league meet … also notched a season best in the 200 meters at the league meet by clocking 22.37 seconds … tied his season-best 60-meter time of 7.02 seconds at the SDSU Holiday Invitational … took third in the 60 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … tallied six top-10 finishes indoors.

Outdoor Track & Field
Placed seventh in the 100 meters and ran on the sixth-place 4x100-meter relay at the Summit League Championships … also took ninth in the 200 meters at the league meet … recorded a season-best of 22.16 seconds for 200 meters at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays, placing third in the race … won the 100 meters at the USD Twilight in 11.04 seconds … recorded a wind-aided season-best of 10.70 seconds for 100 meters at the Red Raider Open … tallied seven top-10 finishes during the year … made the Summit League honor roll … named to the Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence.

2017-18
Indoor Track & Field
Finished sixth in both the 60 meters and the 200 meters at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet … clocked a season best 7.14 seconds in the 60 meters at the SDSU Classic … also recorded a season best of 22.80 in the 200 meters at the SDSU Classic … clocked 7.16 seconds for 60 meters three times during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Earned all-Summit League honors as a member of the Coyotes’ 4x100-meter relay which finished runner-up in 40.70 seconds … finished ninth in the 100 meters in 10.63 seconds and ninth in the 200 meters in 21.61 seconds at the Summit League Championships … captured the 100 meters at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays with a winning time of 10.95 seconds into a headwind … victorious in the 200 meters at the USD Twilight in 22.86 seconds … helped the Coyotes’ 4x100-meter relay win the Howard Wood Dakota Relays and the South Dakota Invitational … finished runner-up in the 100 meters at the Sioux City Relays … took fifth in the 200 meters in 22.09 seconds at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … recorded 12 top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll.

Prep
Grabbed a Nebraska Class B title in the 200 meters in 2017 with a 21.9 second clocking ... also finished runner-up in the 100 meters in 10.7 at the 2017 Nebraska Class B Track and Field Championships ... both times set new Elkhorn High School program records ... coached by USD alumna Linda (Gdowski) Blomenkamp ... an academic all-state honoree as a senior.

Personal
Son of Doug and Stephanie Penington ... kinesiology and sport management major with an emphasis in exercise science.