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Jessa Perkinson

  • Award
    Women's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    4/25/2016
  • Sport
    Track and Field
  • School
    Southern Oregon
  • Year
    Sophomore
  • Position
    Distance
  • Hometown
    Roseburg, Ore.
  • High School
    Roseburg
Women’s Outdoor Track
 
Southern Oregon’s Jessa Perkinson has been named the Red Lion Women’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the week.
 
Perkinson, a sophomore from Roseburg, Ore., ran the 5K for the first time this season in 17:12.31, crushing the previous school record of 17:25.28. Her best time last year was 18:10.16 and her new 5K time ranks third on the NAIA list. She's also broken SOU's 10K record (36:14.72) this season by 21 seconds and is an auto qualifier in that and a provisional qualifier in the 1,500 (4:40.49).
 
Honorable mention: Macie Gale, NCU, Kara Wood, OIT
 

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