Brandon Sheppard Season 2006-07

Personal Best

Indoor

High Jump, 7-2 1/2 (2.20)
Outdoor
100m, 10.60w
High Jump, 6-11 (2.11)

NCAA Championships
2010 (I): 7-0 1/4 (t-15th)

Big 12 Championships
2011 (O): HJ, 6-7 (9th)
2011 (I): HJ, 6-9 (10th)
2010 (O): HJ, 6-6 3/4 (8th)
2010 (I): HJ, 7-0 1/2 (3rd)
2009 (O): HJ, 6-10 3/4 (6th)
2009 (I): HJ, 6-8 3/4 (t-7th)

2008 (O): HJ, 6-10 3/4 (7th)


2010 (Junior)
Brandon Sheppard struggled during the indoor regulars season, but then took off during at the Big 12 Championships... failed to clear higher than 6-10 3/4 at all six of his meets prior to the conference meet and then took third in Ames, Iowa, with a leap of 7-0 1/2... jumped a personal-best of 7-2 1/2 the following week at the ISU Last Chance to earn his first bid to the NCAA Indoor Championships... tied for 15th with a jump of 7-0 1/4 at the national meet... tied his outdoor best at the Drake Relays with a clearance at 6-11... jumped 6-6 3/4 in the rain at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships to place eighth... cleared 6-9 at the NCAA West Regional to finish the year.

2009 (Sophomore)

 

Sheppard earned his first indoor All-Big 12 honor and repeated as an outdoor All-Big 12 performer in 2009... broke seven feet in the high jump for the first time in his career at the Nebraska Tune-Up with a winning clearance and NCAA provisional-qualifying leap of 7-0 1/4... tied for seventh at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a jump of 6-8 3/4... matched his personal best with a third-place leap of 7-0 1/4 at the Cyclone Last Chance to conclude the indoor season... hit the NCAA outdoor regional-qualifying mark 6-10 3/4 at the Concordia Twilight... cleared the same height the following week at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships to finish sixth... ended the year at the NCAA Midwest Regional where he jumped 6-8 3/4 to finish 10th for the second straight year.

 

2008 (Redshirt Freshman)

Sheppard had a breakout season for the Nebraska jumps squad, as he earned his first All-Big 12 honor and a bid to the NCAA Midwest Regional... started the indoor season by jumping 6-10 1/4 at the Holiday Inn Invitational to become only the 24th jumper in Husker history to clear the height indoors... tied for first at the Iowa State Last Chance with a clearance of 6-8... was one of three Nebraska jumpers on the men’s side to place in the top seven at the Big 12 Championships, finishing seventh with a leap of 6-10 3/4... tied for 10th at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a personal-best jump of 6-11.

 

2007 (Freshman)

Sheppard redshirted his first season at Nebraska... competed unattached in four indoor and three outdoor meets... indoors, set a personal best of 6-7 1/2 to tie for fourth at the Prairie Wolf Invitational... also tied for fourth with a season-best outdoor leap of 6-6 3/4 at the Nebraska Invitational.

 

Before Nebraska (San Ramon Valley HS)

Sheppard earned second place as a senior at the Sacramento Meet of Champions by clearing 6-7 while under Coach Ken Harvey... won the boys high jump at the 2006 Stanford Invitational with a height of 6-6 1/4... qualified for the 2006 California state meet, but did not clear the opening height in the preliminaries.

 

Personal

Parents are Noel and Kathy Sheppard... born July 16, 1988... major is nutritional science and dietetics.