2017 (JUNIOR)
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- Earned first team All-America honors in the 400m hurdles with a seventh place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships
- Earned second team All-America honors in the outdoor 4x400m relay with an 11th place finish at the NCAA Championships
- Earned second team All-America honors in the 400m dash after placing 15th at the NCAA Indoor Championships
- Earned second team All-America honors in the indoor 4x400m relay after placing 10th at the NCAA Championships
- Big Ten champion in the 400m hurdles with a school-record time of 56.01 seconds
- Big Ten champion in the indoor 4x400m relay with a then-conference record time of 3:31.90
- Ran the fourth fastest outdoor 400m dash time in program history with a time of 53.39 seconds at the Louisville Invitational where she finished second
- Member of the school record shuttle hurdle relay team that won the Drake Relays with a time of 53.85 seconds
- Won the 400m hurdles at the Drake Relays
- Member of the runner-up 4x400m relay team at the Big Ten Outdoor Championshps
- Broke the indoor 500m school record with a time of 1:11.68 at the Hoosier Open
- Earned the bronze medal in the 400m dash at the Big Ten Indoor Championships with a time of 52.79 seconds
- Second team All-American outdoors as a member of the 4x400m relay, which finished ninth in the country
- Second team All-American indoors as a member of the 4x400m relay, which finished 11th in the country
- Honorable mention for All-American in the 400m hurdles
- Second team All-Big Ten in 400m hurdles after finishing runner-up at the conference championship
- Broke her own 400m hurdles school record with a time of 56.03 seconds at Big Tens
- Ranked ninth in the country in the 400m hurdles
- First team All-Big Ten in the indoor 4x400m relay after running the third leg with a Big Ten Conference record-breaking time of 3:32.07 to win the race
- Finished fourth at the Big Ten Indoor Championships in the 400m dash with the No. 2 time in school history, 52.78 seconds
- Member of the school-record breaking distance medley relay team that ran a time of 11:06.40 at the Alex Wilson Invite. The time ranked 14th in the country
- Ran the fifth-fastest indoor 200m dash in program history with a time of 24.12 seconds at Big Tens
- Qualified for the U.S. Championships in the 400m hurdles, though did not compete
- Name Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week after winning the 400m hurdles at the outdoor-opening Shamrock Invite with what was then the No. 1 time in the country
- Won the 400m hurdles at the prestigious Drake Relays, becoming the first woman in program history to win the evant at that meet
- Member of 4x400m relay team that won the Texas Relays
- Finished runner-up in the 400m hurdles at the Texas Relays, after running the top time in prelims
- Had 11 first-place finishes on the year
- First Team All-America in for 4x400m relay for the outdoor season
- Ran the lead leg and helped the 4x400m relay team finish fourth in the country with a time of 3:31.98
- One of just 19 freshmen women in the country to earn a First Team All-America honor
- Big Ten champion in the 400m hurdles, Purdue's fifth time winning the event, with a school-record time of 56.76 seconds ...
- Just the third woman in program history to win the Big Ten title in the 400m hurdles
- Named Big Ten Freshman of the Year for the indoor season after finishing runner-up in the 400m dash with a school-record time of 53.47 seconds
- Also helped break the school record in the shuttle hurdle relay with a time of 54.65 seconds at the Drake Relays
- Member of school record outdoor 4x400m relay team, with Aarin Jones, Carmiesha Cox and Brionna Thomas, as the group ran 3:31.70 at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds to qualify for the NCAA Championships
- Qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds in the 400m hurdles where she finished 21st
- Earned a bronze medal in the 4x400m relay at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, as the Boilermakers broke the school record with a time of 3:36.95
- Also earned bronze medal outdoors at Big Tens in the 4x400m relay
- Ran the fourth-fastest indoor 200m dash in program history with a time of 24.30 seconds.
- Tied for 10th-fastest 60m hurdles time in program history with a mark of 8.74 seconds
- First team All-Big Ten for indoor season
- Second team All-Big Ten for outdoor season
HIGH SCHOOL
- Named Indiana's Miss Track and Field as a senior; four-time MVP Hurdler Award
- As a senior won the Gatorade Player of the Year
- All-American in 2011, 2012 and 2013 in the 400m hurdles after recording three top-three finishes
- All-American in the 4x400m relay in 2011 and in the 4x400m and 4x100m in 2013
- State champion in the 300m hurdles as a junior
- Won the Concordia senior girl athlete award; broke the conference and sectional records in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles in 2013
- All-state for 100 meter hurdles in 2012 and 2013
- As a sophomore was the runner up in 300mH
- As a freshman was All-state after finishing ninth
- Had PRs of 42.58 seconds in the 300mH, 59.57 seconds in the 400mH and 14.20 seconds in the 100m hurdles
PERSONAL
- Symone Black was born Oct. 26, 1995, in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Daughter of Mark and Loni Black
- Has a sister, Mariah
- Plans to major in applied exercise and health