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Personal Bests
Indoor
Outdoor
Weight Throw
16.56m (54-4)
Shot Put
15.16m (49-9)
14.83m (48-8)
Hammer
43.41m (142-5)
Discus
49.33m (161-10)
Career Highlights: All-Big 12, Shot Put (2010 Indoor) All-Big 12, Shot Put, Discus (2010 Outdoor)
2011 Indoor: Competed in the shot put and the weight throw during the indoor season and reset her personal-bests in both events ... Tossed 15.17m in the shot put at the Big 12 Championships, a new PR, earning her 11th overall ... Threw 16.57m in the weight throw at the Bill Bergan Invitational, earning eighth overall while resetting her personal-best in the event. Outdoor: Competed in two meets during the outdoor season before taking a redshirt. 2010: Indoor: Earned All-Big 12 honors in the shot put as a freshman after finishing seventh overall with a personal-best throw of 15.15m (49-8 ½) at the Big 12 Championships ... That mark was just shy of an NCAA provisional qualifying distance in the event and was the seventh-best throw of the indoor season by any thrower in the Big 12 ... Held the team's top five shot put marks on the season, including event winning throws of 14.77m (48- 5 ½) at the Bill Bergan Invitational and 14.55m (47-9) at the MU-KU Border Dual ... She also was the first collegiate finisher at both the Missouri Invitational and the Missouri Collegiate Challenge with throws of 14.60m (47-11) and 14.77m (48-5 ½), respectively; she finished behind only former Tiger All-American Krishna Lee at both of those meets ... Her second-best throw of the season came at the Adidas Classic, where she measured in at 15.08m (49-5 ¾), claiming second place in the event ... Competed in the weight throw as well during the season, doing so at three meets ... Her season-best in the event came at the Adidas Classic when she threw 14.42m (47-3 ¾). Outdoor:All-Big 12 honoree in the discus and the shot put as a freshman and was an NCAA First Round qualifier in both the discus and the shot put, making her the only Tiger to qualify for the NCAA Championships in two events ... Her personal-best and NCAA-qualifying mark of 49.33m (161-10) in the discus came at the Big 12 Championships where she finished fourth overall in the event ... Followed that with an eighth-place showing in the shot put with a throw of 14.67m (48-1 ¾) as she earned All-Big 12 in both events ... Her personal-best mark in the shot put came at the Oregon Pepsi Invitational when she threw 14.83m (48-8) as she won the event in dominating fashion ... Also competed in the hammer throw in 2010 and turned in a top performance of 43.41m (142-5).
High School: Was the MSHSAA Class 2A State Champion in the shot put during her senior season at Putman Country R-1 High School ... Earned All-America honors that season in the shot put as well ... Holds a pair of state championship meet records, first with a shot put toss of 14.19m (46-7) during her junior season, and second with a toss of 48.89m (160-5) in the discus that same season ... State Champion in the discus and shot put in each of her final two season at Putnam Country R-1 and was first in the discus during her sophomore season ... First-team All-Conference, All-District and All-Sectional in each of her four years of high school in both the shot put and discus ... Led her school to three conference championships from 2007-09 ... Also helped her basketball team to a district championship in 2008 ... Holds personal-best throws of 14.54m (47-8 ½) in the shot put, 48.89m (160-5) in the discus and 14.27m (46-10) in the weight throw ... Was a member of National Honors Society and was an honor roll student all four years of high school. Personal: Born on Sept. 7, 1990, in Centerville, Iowa to Guy and Shelby Evans ... Has plans to study education while at Mizzou with an emphasis in middle school education ... Has aspirations of becoming an All-American in the shot put, discus and hammer and she would like to win an NCAA Indoor and Outdoor National Championship.
