FAYETTEVILLE -- Injuries could have derailed Taliyah Brooks' college track and field career, but they didn't.
Brooks has come back from tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee playing basketball as a senior at Wichita Falls (Texas) Rider High School and breaking her hip long jumping as a true freshman at Arkansas to be one of the top heptathletes in the country.
At a glance
TALIYAH BROOKS
COLLEGE Arkansas
SPORT Track and Field
CLASS Redshirt sophomore
HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL Wichita Falls (Texas) Rider
AGE 21 (born Feb. 8, 1995)
NOTEWORTHY Three-time All-American.