Shelldon Simpson Season 2003-04

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Personal Bests:

Indoors: 60m, 6.84; 200m, 21.71

Outdoors: 100m, 10.48; 200m, 21.54

Big 12 Championships:

2003 (O): 4x100m, 40.42 (4th)

 

2003: Shelldon Simpson had a solid first season in the scarlet and cream... tied a career-best time of 6.84 in the 60 meters indoors for a second-place finish at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational... also took silver in the 200-meter dash (21.72) at the Sevigne... recorded a personal-best 21.71 in the 200 for fourth place at the adidas Classic... won the 60 and 200 meters in his first NU meet at the Wildcat Invitational... ran a time of 6.92 in the semifinals of the 60 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... outdoors Simpson clocked a season-best 10.53 in the 100 meters at the Ward Haylett Invitational, finishing fifth... tied a career-best time of 21.54 in the 200 in the preliminaries of the Big 12 Outdoor Championships... ran the anchor on the 4x100-meter relay team that finished fourth at the conference meet... won bronze in the 100 meters at the K.T. Woodman Classic (10.57w). At Barton County: Was injured most of his career at Barton County Community College... clocked his season-best 60-meter time (6.9) at Iowa State in 2002... captured fourth place at the NJCCC Region VI Outdoor Championships in the 100 meters (10.82)... was a member of the 4x100-meter relay at <?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>Barton County that won the 2002 NJCAA championship with a time of 39.45... season-best indoor time of 21.86 in the 200 meters came in 2002 at the Nebraska adidas Invitational... season-best outdoor time in the 200 (21.17) was clocked at the 2002 Emporia State Relays. High School: One of the greatest high school track and field athletes in the history of Connecticut... won seven Connecticut State Open Championships in the 100, 200, and 400 meters outdoors and four indoor individual championships at 55 and 300 meters... 55-meter best of 6.23 at the 2000 Connecticut State Open is the all-time high school open championship record; it also was the fastest time run by any prep athlete in 2000... placed fourth in the 2002 National Scholarship Championships at the Armory in New York City with his personal best of 6.84... was the 1999 Gatorade Connecticut Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year.  Personal:  Junior college coach was Lance Brauman... major is communication studies and business... parents are Hubert Brown and Marica Johnson-Brown... born Oct. 17, 1981.