The 5-foot-2 senior broke the tape in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.85 seconds, the 200-meter dash in 23.76 seconds and anchored the winning 4x200 relay at the Division 1 state championships this past season. The state's returning Gatorade Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year, Lampkin holds state records in the 100, 200 and 400. She placed second in the 200 at this month's New Balance Nationals Outdoor in 23.80, and finished seventh in the 100.
Lampkin has maintained a weighted 4.26 GPA in the classroom. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete in track and field on scholarship at the University of Alabama this fall.
A member of the National Honor Society and a sports medicine assistant to the school's athletic trainer, Lampkin has also volunteered locally on behalf of her church and a food bank. "Daija Lampkin is the best female track athlete to ever come through Middletown High School," said Middletown coach Mary Kay Waltemire. "She sets her goals high, both on and off the field, and she gives it all she has to obtain those goals."
