Awards and Honors
Penn Relays Champion
All-Southern Conference
Southern Conference Finalist
2007... Set a new personal record in his first race of the season, running 6.50 in the 55m dash at the Diet Pepsi Invitational (1/27), placing third in his heat... placed 18th overall as he ran 6.61 in the finals... ran the 60m dash in 7.17 at the North Carolina Invitational (2/3) to finish second in his heat... finished tied for 19th with two runners from Emory at the Clemson Invitational (2/10) in the 60m dash, running 7.13... ran a season-best time of 7.04 in the 60m dash at the Southern Conference Indoor Championships (2/17), finishing fourth in his preliminary heat... opened the outdoor season with an 11.53 mark in the 100m dash at the Coastal Carolina Invitational (3/10)... finished fifth in the 100m dash at the Winthrop Invitational (3/17) with a season-best time of 11.26... at the Bagwell-Settle Relays (3/21), ran the opening leg of the 4x100m relay (43.34) and the 4x200m relay (1:29.34)... placed 10th in the 100m dash at the Military Championships (3/31) with a time of 11.37... ran the opening leg of the 4x100m relay team that ran less than a second from the school record with a time of 41.76 at the Military Championships (3/31)... finished 19th in the 100m dash at the Chanticleer Invitational (4/14), running 11.38... finished seventh in his preliminary heat at the Southern Conference Championships (4/21), running a season-best time of 11.20... ran the opening leg of the 4x100m relay team that finished third at the Southern Conference Championships (4/22), garnering All-Conference honors... ran the opening leg of the 4x100m relay team that won the Intrepid relay at the Penn Relays...
2006... Began his Bulldog career with a pair of 7.23 marks in the 60m dash, first at the Clemson Opener (12/3) and then again at the UNC Opener (1/14)... ran the 60m dash in 7.18 at the UNC Invitational (2/4)... set a personal-best time of 7.03 in the prelims of the 60m dash at the Clemson Tiger Invitational (2/10)... finished that meet tied for 14th as he ran the 60m dash in 7.09 in the finals... outdoors, ran a season-best 11.23 in the 100m at the Clemson Invitational (4/8), finishing 11th... also finished 11th at the UNC Fast Times Invitational (4/14), running 11.33... finished fifth in his prelim heat of the 100m dash at the SoCon Championships, where he ran a personal-best 11.15.
High School... Graduated from Greenbriar High School in 2005... coached by Katie Smallwood... lettered in track and field and football... named All-County and All-Region in track... placed in the top-10 in the state... won the Senior Athletic Award in track and football.
Personal... Son of Curtis and Helen Merriweather... born on July 31, 1987 in Jackson, S.C.... father played football at Newberry College... majoring in business administration with an accounting concentration.
