Former Lady Vols’ track standout Heather Sumpter Blakemore will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame later this month.

She was a two-time All-America performer for Tennessee from 1996-97 and won the 100-meter dash at the Penn Relays in 2000.

Blakemore graduated from UT with a degree in sociology and now works as a guidance counselor at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Blakemore is also the girls track and field coach at Austin-East. She guided the Lady Roadrunners to a TSSAA Class A/AA state championship in 2007 and was named the Prep Xtra Girls Coach of the Year.