Halima Scott opened her final year at Delaware with a double sprint win at the Blue Hens’ own Delaware Invitational in Newark.
Scott, a Delaware grad student working toward her masters in strategic communication, won the 200 in 24.81 and won the 400 in 58.67, winning over a field of 28 in the 200 and 23 in the 400.
Scott is a graduate of Camden Big Picture Learning Academy but competed for Woodrow Wilson. She ran 12.29, 24.77 and 56.46 for Wilson and long jumped 17-6 ½.
At Delaware, she has PRs of 23.99 in the 200 at the 2019 Colonial Athletic Association Championships in Elon, N.C., and 53.01 for 400 meters at last year CAA Championships in Williamsburg, Va. She hasn’t long jumped in college.
She’s won two CAA titles: The 200 [23.99] outdoors in 2019 at Elon, and the 400 [54.19] outdoors in 2022 in Dedham, Mass. The CAA is now the Coastal Athletic Association.
On the all-time Delaware indoor lists, she ranks 6th in the 60-meter dash [7.72], 2nd in the 200 [24.12], 3rd in the 300 [40.07], and she’s the school-record holder in the 400 [53.97]. Outdoors, she’s No. 2 in the 200 [23.99], school record holder in the 400 [53.01] and also ran the 400 on the school-record sprint medley [3:57.75].
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 