McPherson Travels To Arkansas For NCAA Indoor Championships
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STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi State University's Jennifer McPherson will compete in the mile run this weekend, March 11-12, at the 2005 NCAA Division Indoor Track & Field Championships. Preliminaries for the event are scheduled for Friday evening at 6:45 p.m. CT inside the Randal Tyson Indoor Track & Field Complex on the campus of the University of Arkansas. Should McPherson advance to the final, it is scheduled for Saturday evening at 6:15 p.m. CT.
"Jennifer has earned this trip," said MSU Head Coach Al Schmidt. "She's had some troubles with her leg injury. She'll be going into the race on Friday at about 80-85 percent. We just want to give her a chance to be an all-American."
Already this season, the Nampa, Idaho-native finished third at the SEC Indoor Championships in 4 minutes, 56.08 seconds in only her second race back from a nagging Achilles injury. McPherson met an NCAA provisional qualifying mark with her second-place finish (4:42.79) at the Boston University Terrier Classic on Jan. 29. She also won the 800-meter run (2:12.34) and the mile run (4.49.10) at the Clemson Invitational. In her first race of the season, McPherson finished second (2:10.29) to former MSU all-American Tiffany McWilliams in the highlighted 800-meter run championship at the Purple Tiger Invitational.