Oceana Brown Award Women's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week Week Of 4/30/2024 Sport Women's Outdoor Track and Field School Gallaudet University Year Freshman Position Hometown Miami, Fla. High School Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind Track Athlete of the Week Oceana Brown / FY / Gallaudet University / Miami, Fl. / Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind Brown was a member of Gallaudet's 4x100 meter relay team that posted a time of 51.78 to place 8th overall out of 13 teams at the Paul Kaiser Classic hosted by Shippensburg University last Saturday on a cold and rainy day. Brown ran the second leg of the relay in the second heat where the Bison finished first. In the preliminaries of the 100-meter dash, Brown posted a time of 12.49 seconds to qualify for the finals but due to the rain and wet track they did not run the finals. Brown was the only first-year runner in the Top 10 of the 100-meter dash preliminaries that featured 59 runners. Brown won the fourth heat of the 100-meter dash to qualify for the finals. This is the eighth Athlete of the Week honor for Brown this academic year, who was also named Indoor Rookie of the Year at the United East Indoor Championships in February.