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Hanna could be fastest Huskie ever
By Kevin Mitchell, The StarPhoenix
Mar 5, 2014 - 10:11:49 PM

University of Saskatchewan Huskies sprinter and football player Kenrick Hanna is quickly building a reputation for having tremendous speed Photograph by: Gord Waldner , The StarPhoenix

Saskatchewan, CANADA - Kenrick Hanna was as raw as a fresh-picked carrot when Brian Towriss saw him on a Saskatoon football field for the first time.

The Bahamas native, who attended high school in Florida before heading last year to a cold-weather province he'd never seen, needed plenty of work on a long list of football skills.

But he had one down pat - legs that flew faster than anything Griffiths Stadium had ever seen.

"Yeah, he's very raw as a football player," Towriss, the University of Saskatchewan Huskies' head football coach, said this week when asked about a man who has since established himself as the fastest athlete on campus - probably ever.

"His speed is his asset. The second day we saw him, he was just way faster than anybody else. But he hasn't played a ton of football. Track's his deal."

Hanna, who saw spot duty in four games for the Huskies as a rookie defensive back this past season, is on a roll heading into this weekend's CIS track championships in Edmonton. He broke the Huskies' 60-metre sprint record while winning the recent Canada West championship, erasing Graeme Rinholm's 2010 team mark of 6.78 seconds with a 6.69 clocking.

Only one CIS athlete has run faster than Hanna this season - that's York's Dontae Richards-Kwok, whose season best is 6.63.

"He's an exceptional talent," Huskies track coach and former Olympian Joanne McTaggart says of Hanna, who has appeared in just three meets this season while dealing with hamstring issues. "I'm sure the guys Down East will be looking at that result, going, 'Where the heck did this guy come from?'"

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