Obakeng Ngwigwa

2009: Indoor and Outdoor NCAA participant … SEC Outdoor Champion in mile relay … SEC Indoor runner-up in the mile relay … Outdoor All-SEC First Team … Indoor All-SEC Second Team … indoors, focused on 400m and took fourth at the SEC Indoor Championships at 47.08 … claimed third at the Tom Jones Memorial … third leg of mile relay team that took second at 3:06.11 … outdoors, NCAA East Region qualifier in the 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m relay … won the Spec Towns Relays at 47.21 … took eighth at the SEC Outdoor Championships in the 400m at 47.20 … ran a 47.36 at the NCAA East Region meet … also competed in the 200m with a top time of 20.84 at the Friendship & Freedom Games … won the Weems Baskin Invite and took third at the Shamrock Invite and UNC Elite Meet … member of 4x100m relay team that took third at the SEC meet and 4x400m relay team that won SEC title at 3:04.49 … both relays claimed bronze at East Region meet … at NCAA Outdoors, ran anchor of 4x100m relay team and led off 4x400m relay to get fifth in both events.

BUTLER CC (2006-07): Coached by Kirk Hunter … 2007 4x400m relay Indoor NJCAA national champion … 2008 Kansas Relays champion in the 400m at 46.13 … 2008 Texas Relays Champion in the 100m at 10.423.

HIGH SCHOOL: Coached by Bobby Yaseitsewe at Maun High School in Botswana … graduated in 2003 … had top times of 10.98 in the 100m, 21.78 in the 200m and 47.24 in the 400m … competed at World Junior Championships in 2004 and the World Championships in 2005 and 2007 … earned bronze medal at 2004 World Junior Championships with a Botswana junior national record 45.97 in the 400m … competed at 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia and the 2007 All-African Games.

PERSONAL: Obakeng Ambrose Ngwigwa was born July 9, 1985 in Serowe, Botswana … mother is Onalenna Ngwigwa … pursing a degree in technology support and training management … chose USC over Florida State after transferring from Butler Community College (Kansas).