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2016 Men's Track and Field

Jonny Sumner

  • Height 5-8
  • Weight 160
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Tampa, Fla.
  • High School Steinbrenner
  • Position Middle Distance/Sprints
  • Major Biology

Biography

2016-17

  • competed in five outdoor meets in the spring
  • ran a season-low 200 time of 23.98 seconds at the Southside Power & Fitness Invitational
  • his best finish in the 400 came at the same meet where he notched the Quakers’ best time of the season (52.91)
  • also ran the Quakers’ fastest 800 (2:04.49) and threw the javelin for the Quakers
  • competed in five meets this winter
  • team-leading 400-meter time of 53.58 seconds ranked 14th at the ODAC Championships
  • recorded Guilford’s top 800 time (2:09.53) at the Finn Pincus Invitational
  • added his season best in the 200 (24.51) at the Vince Brown Invitational

2015-16

  • had a season best in the 400-meter dash (52.69) at the ODAC Indoor Championships, Guilford's second-fastest time of the year
  • ran a leg on the 4x400 relay (3:31.84), the third-fastest indoor mark in school history, at the UCS Invitational
  • ran a leg on the fourth-fastest indoor distance medley relay in school history (11:05.39) at the ODAC Indoor Championships, scoring five points
  • competed in five outdoor meets
  • ran his personal best in the 400-meter dash (52.30) at the ODAC Outdoor Championships
  • ran a leg on Guilford’s 4x400 relay, which ran seventh-best in school history in 3:26.56

2014-15

  • participated in six indoor and six outdoor meets as a Quaker
  • ran on Guilford’s 4x400 team that set the indoor school record (3:27.83) at the USC Invitational and finished third
  • ran a season best in the 400 (53.06) the USC Invitational
  • clocked his season best in the 800 (2.07.70) at the Winston-Salem State University Open
  • part of Guilford’s distance medley relay team (11:15) at the Hilton Garden Invitational  that ran the fifth fastest indoor mark in school history, placing 14th
  • set his season best in the 400 (53.47) at the Highpoint VertKlasse Meeting
  • ran a personal best in the 800 (1:59.02) at the ODAC Outdoor Championships and finished eighth

2013-14

  • Indoor
    • competed in six meets as a sprinter and middle-distance runner
    • had the fastest 400-meter on the team (53.11)
    • his 2:12.36 in the 800 was a team best
  • Outdoor
    • participated in five outdoor meets as a sprinter
    • finished fourth at the Jopson Invitational in the 400-meter dash (52.56), and sixth in the 100 (12.28)
    • ran a personal-best time of 24.03 in the 200 at the Wake Forest Open
    • achieved a personal-best in the 100 (12.18) at the Jopson Invitational
    • part of Guilford’s 4x100 relay team that set the school record (44.03) at the ODAC Championships
    • on Guilford’s 4x400 relay team that ran the sixth-fastest time (3:30.09) in school history

Personal

  • four-time member of Guilford's Student-Athlete Honor Roll
  • four-year cross country letter winner for the Quakers
  • serves as treasurer for Guilford's Forensic Biology Club
  • member of the Outdoors Club and works on campus as a groundskeeper
  • studied in Rwanda in January 2016
  • lettered two years in track at Steinbrenner High School
  • helped his 4x400m team make regionals twice
  • member of his school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter
  • son of Janelle and Charles Sumner

Historical Player Information

  • 2014Sophomore

    Middle Distance/Sprints
    5'8" 165 lbs
  • 2015Junior

    Middle Distance/Sprints
    5'8" 165 lbs
  • 2016Senior

    Middle Distance/Sprints
    5'8" 160 lbs