6 Things You Oughta Know About Lionel Larry

200m Personal Best: 20.37, Mt. SAC Relays, 2009

400m Personal Best: 44.63, 2008 NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships, Des Moines, Iowa.

• Larry went to Dominguez High School in Compton, California with current NFL lineman Chilo Rachal of the San Francisco 49ers and NBA Center Tyson Chandler of the New Orleans Hornets.

• He maintained a 3.83 grade point average in high school, graduating with honors and was also elected to Freshman Class President.

• He has qualified for five 5 national teams. In 2003, he made the World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada followed by the 2005 Pan American Junior Team in WIndsor, Canada. Then there was the 2006 NACAC team in the Dominican Republic before he moved up and qualified for the Pan American Senior team in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and the 2007 World Championship Team in Osaka, Japan.

• During his career at USC, he won two individual Pac-10 championships in the 400 meters and was a four-time All-American honoree.

• Despite running the race during college and now during his pro career, he hates the 400 meters.

• His is interested in racing in many forms, namely Drag Racing which his father and friends got him involved in when he was a young man.  Some of his off the track hobbies include racing his go kart and restoring cars.

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