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Class of 2020

DEANNE DAVIS BROOKS
BURLINGTON CUMMINGS

Davis won 23 NCHSAA state track titles (14 individual titles and 2 relays in outdoor track and 7 individual titles during indoor track), was a 6-time state meet MVP (4 outdoors and 2 indoors), and helped her teams win 4 teams titles (3 in outdoor track and 1 during indoor track).  

During outdoor track, she won 4 state titles in the 100-meter hurdles (1993, ’94, ’95, ’96, setting a 3A record in 1993 and a 2A state meet record in 1995); 4 in the 300-meter hurdles (1993, ’94, ’95, ’96, setting a 2A state meet record in 1995); 4 in the triple jump (1993, ’94, ’95, ’96, setting a state meet record the last three years), 2 in the long jump (1995, ’96, setting a 2A state meet record each year), and she ran on 2 winning relays (4x100 relay in 1993 and 4x400 relay in 1994). She also was the 3A outdoor state meet MVP in 1993 and the 2A outdoor state meet MVP in 1994, ’95 and ’96, while helping her team to the state title in 1994, ’95 and ’96.

During indoor track, she won 4 60-yard/55-meter hurdle titles (1993, ’94, ’95, ’96); 2 titles in the triple jump (1994, ’96) and 1 in the long jump (1996), while also helping Cummings to the 1996 all-class team title and earning meet MVP in 1994 and ’96. She graduated ranked No. 1 all-time in North Carolina in the 55-meter hurdles, 60-meter hurdles, triple jump, and No. 4 in the long jump. She is still No. 3 all-time in the triple jump.

She was one of the NCHSAA’s “100 to Remember” female athletes in 2013.

In college at the University of North Carolina (1997-2000), she was a 3-time All-American in the triple jump (2 indoors, 1 outdoors), and a 3-time ACC champion (triple jump, 60-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles). In 2000, she won the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award and is currently a college professor. 

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