text: Georgia sprinter impaled by javelin earns Southeastern Conference honor - Sports - Savannah Morning News - Savannah, GA
  Georgia sprinter impaled by javelin earns Southeastern Conference honor
  May 28, 2019 at 6:10 PM May 28, 2019 at 6:10 PM
  ATHENS — Georgia sprinter Elija Godwin has been named the Southeastern Conference Co-Freshman Runner of the Year for the outdoor season, the league announced Tuesday.
  Godwin, a native of Covington, becomes the first Bulldog in outdoors history to garner the honor, sharing the 2019 award with Kentucky's Tai Brown and Ole Miss' Dalton Hengst. The late Bulldogs great Torrin Lawrence was the 2009 SEC Freshman Runner of the Year indoors.
  Godwin had the team's fastest 100-meter dash (10.47 seconds), 200 (20.59) and 400 (45.92) times during his first outdoor season in red and black and registered seven overall victories during the regular season.
  In the 400, Godwin completed his season 24th on the national performance list and was fifth out of the country's freshmen with the best time from the conference in the category.
  His top 200 finish gave him the nation's 28th-fastest time in 2019, including the fastest time for a freshman in the SEC and fourth-fastest time for a freshman nationally.