Owen Dawson Class: Junior Hometown: Downingtown, Pa. High School: Coatesville Experience: JR

On the National Scene ...
|| 2009 Outdoor || Placed 24th in the 800 at the NCAA East Regional Championships, running 1:51.48.

At the Big Ten Championships ...
|| 2009 Outdoor || Turned in a third-place finish in the 800, clocking 1:50.68 ... Posted the fastest 800 time in the preliminaries with a personal-best 1:49.58. || 2009 Indoor || Part of Penn State's exciting one-two finish in the 800-meters, claiming silver-medal honors in 1:50.83. || 2008 Outdoor || Placed ninth in his preliminary heat of the 1500-meters. || 2008 Indoor || Ran the 1200-meter leg of the sixth-place distance medley relay.

Around the Track ...
|| 2009 Outdoor || Placed second in the 800 at the Bison Outdoor Classic with a regional-qualifying 1:50.27 ... Took fourth in the 800 at the Jim Click Shootout ... Was a member of the Lions' fourth-place 4x800 that finished in 7:18.66 in the Championship of America section at Penn Relays ... Placed ninth in the 1500 at the Jesse Owens Classic (3:51.49). || 2009 Indoor || Ran a personal-best and NCAA provisional-qualifying 1:50.13 to finish second in the 800-meters at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup ... Led off on the winning 4x800-meter relay at the Penn State Relays, running a meet record 7:31.17 ... Ran a personal-best 4:08.84 in the mile at the Washington Husky Invitational ... Finished seventh in the Invitational 800 at the Penn State National ... Placed third in the 1000-meters at the Penn State Open. || 2008 Outdoor || Ran a PR 1:51.68 to finish third in the 800 at the Penn State Open ... Finished 11th in the 800 at the Sun Angel Classic ... Placed eighth in the 1500 in a career-best 3:54.67 at the Oregon Pepsi Challenge. || 2008 Indoor || Ran on the first-place 4x800-meter relay at the Penn State Relays ... Finished 12th in the mile at the Penn State National ... Placed eighth in the 800-meters at the Virginia Tech Elite meet ... Ran a personal-best 4:15.61 in the mile at the Tyson Invitational. || High School || Ran the 800-meter leg on the winning DMR at the prestigious Penn Relays ... The team's performance of 10:08.51 was one of the best in the country in 2007 ... A member of the Track and Field News High School All-America team ... Helped his squad to a team title at the high-powered 2006 Nike Team National Cross Country Championships ... Ran on the winning team at the 2006 PIAA Cross Country Championships, finishing eighth individually ... Qualified for the PIAA Championships in the mile, and finished 10th overall ... Also ran on the fifth-place 4x800 at the state meet. || Personal || Son of Jane Dawson ... Born September 19, 1988 ... Enrolled in the College of Health and Human Development ... Twin brother, Kyle, is also a freshman distance runner.