Norfolk State University Athletics

Personal Records
Indoor
200 Meters: 24.90 (2010 Va. Tech Invitational)
400 Meters: 56.51 (2010 MEAC ID)
Outdoor
200 Meters: 23:99 (2009 MEAC OD)
400 Meters: 55:19 (High School)

2009-10: Indoor: MEAC Indoor Championship runner-up in the 400 meters (56.51, PR)…posted her fastest 200-meter time of the season at Virginia Tech, clocking a 24.90 for the seventh-fastest time in the conference during indoor season…placed sixth at the conference meet in the 200 (25.26). Outdoor: Ran a season-best 24.59 in the 200 at Wake Forest…clocked a season-best 56.52 in the 400 at the Sea Ray Relays…ran a leg on NSU’s first-place 4x100 relay team at Wake Forest, which registered the school’s fastest time of the season (45.67)…also ran a leg on the third-place 4x100 team at the MEAC Outdoor Championship (45.96)…also participated on NSU’s 4x400 relay team that came in eighth at the conference meet.

2008-09: Indoor: Had the Spartans’ fastest indoor time in the 400 (58.15)…ran on the indoor 4x400 team that posted a season-best time of 3:51.98 to finish fifth at the MEAC Indoor Championship… finished 12th in the 200 (25.50) at the conference indoor meet. Outdoor: Tallied NSU’s season-best times in the 200 (23.99, PR) and 400 (56.62)…ran a leg on the 4x400 relay team that finished third in 3:43.00 (season-best time) at the MEAC Outdoor Championship…ran a 24.41 in the 200 to place seventh at the conference meet in the 200 after running her PR of 23.99 in the prelims.

2007-08: Indoor: Had a very productive freshman season, as she recorded the Spartans’ top times in four events…during the indoor season, she posted times of 7.66 in the 60, 25.25 in the 200, and 57.22 in the 400, all of which were top performances for NSU. Outdoor: Led the team in the 100 (11.84), 200 (24.33), and 400 (57.75) during the outdoor season…ran on the 4x400 teams that posted the best indoor (3:54.26) and outdoor (3:52.50) times of the season…was also on the 4x100 outdoor team that ran a season-best 46.27 and finished third at the MEAC Championship.

High School: Posted the 12th-fastest time in the country in Feb. 2007 when she won the 300 meters in 39.52 (PR) at the Virginia Tech Invitational…as a junior in 2006, she finished second in both the 100 (12.19) and the 400 (55.19) at the Northwest Region Outdoor Championship, besting the meet record of 55.52…took second place in the 400 (55.77) and fifth in the 100 (12.40) at the 2006 Group AAA Outdoor State Championship.

Personal: Dania Chanese Sanford…born on July 18, 1989…daughter of Karen Moore and Thomas Sanford…majoring in physical education…wants to be a physical education teacher.