Southeast Missouri State University Athletics

2024 Outdoor: Ran at six meets…Chalked up 11 top ten performances…Claimed OVC Female Track Athlete of the Week once…Ran the 4x400m in 3:51.34 for the bronze medal at the Ole Miss Classic…Grabbed three gold medals in two weeks at the Joey Haines Invite and Tennessee Invite in the 400m hurdles (1:02.13), 4x400m relay (3:50.59), and the 400m hurdles again (1:00.82), also notched third in another 4x400m race (3:45.58)...Achieved new personal records in back-to-back meets in the 200m (20th) and the100m (71st) with times of 25.18 and 12.59 at the Gary Wieneke Memorial and the Georgia Tech Invite…Ended the season at the OVC outdoor Championships with finishes of 1:02.89 (400H) and 3:45.84 (4x400m) for third and first.

2024 Indoor: Ran at seven meets…Recorded 11 top five finishes with eight being medal performances…Ran the 4x400m relay event five times and placed first all five times…Began the season at the Edmunds Wilt Invite with two new personal bests and a gold medal performance in the 60-meters (8.06, 11th), 300m (40.85, 4th), and the 4x400m relay (3:57.09)...Stood on the podium three times at the Redhawks Invite with finishes of 26.88 (3rd) in the 200m, 59.52 (2nd) in the 400m and 3:58.70 (1st) in the 4x400m…Crossed the line at 3:52.17 at the Bellarmine open to take gold in the 4x400m…Placed first in the 4x400m with a finishing time of 3:46.46 at the PNC Bank Bellarmine Classic…Ended the season at the Ohio Valley Indoor Championships, finishing with times of 55.71 (PR) and 3:47.62 for third and first in the 400m and 4x400m.
2023 Outdoor: Ran in eight meets…Notched 13 top-ten finishes and 11 top-three finishes…During the South Alabama Invitational placed second in the 400-meter crossing the finish line at 57.20…Posted a time of 3:59.6 at the Mississippi State Bulldog Relays in the 4x400 placing fourth…Tailed two first place finishes at the 2023 Joey Haines Invite, in the 400-meter hurdles running a time of 1:03.27 and in the 400-meter with a time of 56.49…Set a new PR in the 400-meter finishing in second place with a run of 56.30 at the Cougar Classic…At the Georgia Tech Invitational set another personal record, this time in the 100-meter 12.69 (54th) and placed third in the 400-meter hurdles crossing the line in 1:00.13…Recorded two third place finishes at the Memphis Tiger Invitational in the 400-meter with a run of 57.00 and in the 4x400 with a time of 3:52.78…Set a PR in the 400-meter hurdles running a time of 59.36 placing first at the 2023 Outdoor OVC Championships and placed second in the 4x400 (3:46.76)...Finished her season with a time of 1:00.05 in the 400-meter hurdles (35th) at the NCAA West Preliminary Round.

2023 Indoor: Ran in seven meets…Posted 11 top-five finishes and seven top-three finishes…Opened the season setting two PR’s at the Edmonds-Wilt Invitational, one in the 60 meter preliminaries with a time of 8.21 (21st) and the other one in the 300 meter with a time of 41.54 which earned a fourth place finish…Set another personal best in the 55 meter dash preliminaries, finished with a time of 7.62 (17th) at the Redhawks Invite. At the John Gartland Invitational recorded a second place finish in the 4x400 (4:02.88) and a second place finish in the 600-meter (1:39.50) which set a new personal best. During the Indiana University Relays she would set a PR in the 200 with a run of 25.96…Notched another PR with a 25.64 (19th) finish in the 200-meter at the PNC Bank Bellarmine Classic…Achieved two second place finches in the 200-meter (57.90) and the distance medley relay (12:37.41) at the Hoosier Hills Invite… During the Indoor OVC championship she set a new PR while placing second in the 400- meter with a run of 56.58, while she placed third in the 4x400 running a 3:52.31.

2022 Outdoor: Ohio Valley Conference Champion in the 400m hurdles...Ran in seven meets…Started the season with a first-place finish in the 400 meter hurdles (1:03.56) at the Rhodes College Invitational…Finished the season with seven top five finishes…Notched a PR by running a 2:26.04 in the 800m (20th) at the Ole Miss Classic…At the Tennessee Relays, she ran the 400m hurdles in 1:05.18 (5th)...At the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championships, she placed sixth in the 4x400m (3:51.22), first with a PR (1:01.70) in the 400m hurdles and seventh with another PR (57.23) in the 400m.

2022 Indoor: Ran in three meets…Posted seven top ten performances…Began the season at the Indiana Relays and placed seventh in the 400m (1:01.14 )...Finished third in the 4x400 with a time of 3:55.93 at the Hoosier Hills meet…Finished sixth and ninth in the 4x400m (3:53.27) and the 400m (58.52 )...Recorded a PR in the 200m, running 26.08 (18th) at the OVC Indoor Championships.

Lindsey Wilson College: Went to Lindsey Wilson College in 2020-21.

Prep: Attended Kirby High School.

Personal: Born July 25, 2002...Daughter of Laterrica and Wanetas Pegues...Majoring in Physical Education.