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Personal Bests:
Indoors: 60m Hurdles, 7.81
Outdoors: 110m Hurdles, 13.83
Honors:
Nebraska 4x110-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay School Record Holder
NCAA Championships:
2005 (O): 110m Hurdles, 13.94 (t10th)
Big 12 Championships:
2005 (I): 60m Hurdles, 7.93 (4th)
2005 (O): 110m Hurdles, 13.84 (2nd)
2004 (I): 60m Hurdles, 7.91 (3rd)
2004 (O): 110m Hurdles, 14.31 (5th)
2003 (I): 60m Hurdles, 8.02 (5th)
2003 (O): 110m Hurdles, 14.24 (7th)
2005: Courtney Jones earned his highest finish at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with a second-place clocking of 13.84 in the 110-meter hurdles... just missed reaching the finals of the NCAA Outdoor Championships by tying for 10th in the semifinals with a time of 13.94... set his personal-best of 13.83 during the prelims at the NCAA Midwest Regional, where he finished fifth... tied for seventh on NU’s all-time 110-meter hurdle chart... ran the second leg of NU’s Big 12 and school record-setting 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay that earned silver at the Penn Relays (55.12)... finished fourth in the 60-meter hurdles at the Big 12 indoor meet (7.93)... opened the indoor season with wins at the Holiday Inn Invitational (7.93) and adidas Classic (7.91)... placed second outdoors in the 110-meter hurdles at the Kansas Relays (13.88w)... claimed bronze at the Nebraska Invitational (13.84). 2004: Jones claimed bronze in the 60-meter hurdles in 7.91 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... time of 7.85 in the preliminaries met the NCAA provisional qualifying standard... set his career-best time of 7.81 at the Cyclone NCAA Qualifier... ranks fifth on NU’s all-time 60-meter hurdle chart with that mark... improved on his 2003 finish in the 100-meter hurdles at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with a fifth-place finish in 14.31... exceeded the regional qualifying mark of 14.33 every time he competed... placed fourth in his preliminary heat at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a time of 14.22, just missing a spot in the finals... was a member of the school-record-setting 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay team that clocked a time of 56.14 to win gold at the Drake Relays... claimed first place indoors in the 60-meter hurdles at the Panther Open (7.99) and Tiger Classic (7.98), while finishing second at the Holiday Inn Invite (8.04) and Prairie Wolf Invite (7.99)... also earned silver outdoors in the 110-meter hurdles at the Nebraska Quadrangular (14.07w). 2003: Jones had a solid freshman campaign in the hurdles... finished fifth in the 60-meter hurdles in 8.02 at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... clocked an NCAA provisional-qualifying time of 7.93 in the hurdles to take bronze at the Husker Invite... ran a season-best time of 7.11 in the 60-meter dash twice at the Panther Classic at UNI... won silver in the hurdles at the Holiday Inn Invite... finished fourth (8.05) at the adidas Classic... ran a personal-best 14.24 in the 110-meter hurdles for a seventh-place finish at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships... crossed the line in 14.21w in the high hurdles in the preliminaries of the NCAA Midwest Regional... was a member of the 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay that set the then-school record (56.32) to place fifth in the Penn Relays. High School: Won the 2002 Texas Class 4A 110-meter hurdle title in an outstanding 13.78, the seventh-fastest time of the season by a U.S. prep... was the 2001 Class 4A 110-meter hurdle runner-up (13.97)... ran 14.44 to win the 2000 AAU National Junior Olympics 110-meter hurdles in the intermediate boys division... finished second in the 2002 Young Men’s 110-meter hurdles (13.99) and decathlon at the Region 12 Junior Olympic Championships in Houston, Texas... sixth in the USA Junior National Championships with a time of 14.53 over 42-inch hurdles... runner-up in 2002 Texas Relays 110-meter hurdles (14.23). Personal: High school coach was Greg Williams... major is economics... parents are Jerry Thompson and Margaret Jones... born July 3, 1984.