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Jessica Shelton

Jessica Shelton

  • Position:
    Hurdles
  • Height:
    5-6
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Rockville, Va.
  • Highschool:
    Patrick Henry-Ashland
  • Prev School:
    Patrick Henry-Ashland

Summary

Biography

2016-17
Indoor – All-Big South in pentathlon for second straight year, with third place finish (3,307 points)... Finished career with two of top five point totals in program history... Also placed third in event at Hokie Invitational... Took seventh in 60-meter hurdles at Big South Championships, while posting season-best time of 8.86 in preliminary heat... Won 60-meter hurdles at Bast-Cregger Invitational and finished fifth in 300 meters... Clocked 27.02 in 200 meters at Marshall. Outdoor – Set new program heptathlon record at Big South Championships for third straight year with 4,551 points, finishing career with the top three all-time totals at Radford... Placed fifth in the event at the meet, while setting PRs in 200 meters (25.67), 800 meters (2:40.29) and high jump (1.56m)... All-Big South in 4x100 relay with third-place finish and was part of two teams to post times in the top five in Radford history, including second-best... Clocked season-best 14.42 in 100-meter hurdles to finish ninth at Virginia and placed third in event at Winthrop.

2015-16
Indoor – All-Big South in pentathlon with runner-up finish while totaling 3,446 points, second-best total in program history… Set personal-best of 5.37m in long jump during the competition… Also established new PRs in 60 hurdles (8.76), high jump (1.60m) and shot put (10.96m)… Twice set PR in 60 hurdles at Big South Championship and placed fourth… Third in high jump and fourth in 60 hurdles at Marshall Opener and eighth in high jump at VT Invite. Outdoor – Set new Radford record in heptathlon at Big South Championships, scoring 4,446 points to take fifth place, while setting new then-PRs in high jump (1.55m) and 200m (26.12)… Posted personal-best long jump of 5.48m at Highlander Invitational… Finished fifth in 100 hurdles at Big South Championship and had season-best 14.25 at Highlander Invitational… Recorded PRs in both shot put (10.92m) and javelin (28.75m) at Phoenix Invitational to place sixth and fifth, respectively… Also seventh in 100 hurdles at VertKlasse Meeting… Named to Big South All-Academic Team and member of Big South Presidential Honor Roll.

2014-15 
Indoor—Runner-up in the 60m hurdles at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational…Set then-PR in shot put (10.42) that helped her finish fourth in the pentathlon with 3,194 points at the Big South Indoor Track & Field Championships. Outdoor—Came in fourth in the 100m hurdles at the Winthrop Invitational…Member of the 4x100m relay team that placed third at the Phoenix Invitational…Runner-up in the 100m hurdles at the Highlander Invitational…Four then-PRs in the 200m (26.74), 800m (2:40.84), long jump (5.17m) and javelin (27.36m) pushed her to finish fourth in the heptathlon with a school-record 4,342 points (PR) at the Big South Championships…Qualified for finals in the 100-meter high hurdles at the Big South Championships, clocking a 14.43 in prelims and 14.85 in the finals to take seventh.

2013-14 
Posted nine Top-5 performances, including three runner-ups ... Delivered a season-best 14.07 in the 100m hurdles to finish second and qualify for the USATF Junior National Outdoor Championships ... Placed seventh in the pentathlon at the Big South indoor championships with 3,060 points ... Season-best 60m hurdles time (8.87) came at the Big South indoor championships.

HIGH SCHOOL
MVP for the Patrick Henry Patriots in 2013 behind all-state honors and guiding the squad to district and region titles ... Also led PHHS to district and region championships in 2012 ... Four-time all-academic honoree.

PERSONAL / ACADEMICS
Daughter of Howard Shelton and Elizabeth Smith ... Sister to Christopher, Tracy, Morgan and Owen ... Sports medicine major at RU.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14Freshman

    Hurdles
    5'6"

  • 2014-15Sophomore

    Hurdles
    5'6"

  • 2015-16Junior

    Hurdles
    5'6"

  • 2016-17Senior

    Hurdles
    5'6"