Former Syracuse and Rutgers star Dennisha Page from Wilson High is now doing a post-grad year at Tennessee and made a successful Volunteers debut Saturday at the Gamecock Opener in Columbia, S.C.
Page, who graduated last spring from Rutgers with a degree in health administration, placed 2nd in the 55-meter dash in 7.33, ran 4th in the 300-meter dash in 37.55 and also ran a leg on Tennessee’s 4-by-400 B team, which ran 3:45.75.
Page was at Syracuse only for the 2020 indoor season and ran 7.50 for 60 meters in a meet at Ithaca and 24.31 for the 200 in a meet at South Bend, Ind.
She surfaced at Rutgers for the 2021 indoor season and ran 7.26 last indoor season in Fayetteville, Ark., and then ran her wind-legal PRs of 11.30 and 23.08 in the 100 and 200 at the Big Ten Championships last spring in Bloomington, Ind. She competed in NCAA Eastern Prelims last spring and ran 11.42 and a windy 22.88.
In her first meet for Tennessee, Page ran within 7-100ths of a second of her 60 PR and destroyed her 300 PR with that 37.55. Her previous best at 300 meters was 39.32 for Rutgers at a meet at the Armory two years ago. Her 37.55 is No. 3 in school history, behind only LaVonna Martin’s 36.75 in 1987 and Felicia Brown’s 37.12 in 2016.
Page ran the third leg on Tennessee’s 4-by-4. Charleston Southern finished just behind Tennessee with Jailya Ash from Eastern anchoring.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 