Personal Bests:
Indoors: 200m, 22.04; 60m Hurdles, 7.90
Outdoors: 110m Hurdles, 14.10 (14.05w)
Honors:
Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Fall 2005; Spring 2005, 2006)
In the Husker Record Books:
Indoors: 60m Hurdles (8th)
Outdoors: 4x110-Meter Shuttle Hurdle Relay, 55.12 (1st)
Big 12 Championships:
2006 (I): 60m Hurdles, 7.93 (6th)
2005 (O): 110m Hurdles, 14.10 (6th)
2006: Aaron Ross, who earned his second career all-conference honor last year, will compete only outdoors after exhausting his indoor eligibility... finished sixth in the 60-meter hurdles at the Big 12 Indoor Championships... set his personal-best time and recorded his first career NCAA provisional-qualifying effort during the prelims... clocked a then-career-best 7.92 while winning gold at the Prairie Wolf Invitational the week before... broke the eight-second barrier for the first time in the 60 hurdles by winning the Nebraska Wesleyan Triangular in 7.98... grabbed a pair of silver honors in the hurdles (8.08) and 200-meter dash (22.04) at the Nebraska-Colorado State-Kent State Triangular... saw limited action during the outdoor season while nursing an injured hamstring... placed first in the 110-meter hurdles at the Ward Haylett Invite (14.52) after setting a season-best time of 14.43 (wind-aided) during the prelims. 2005: Ross scored for the first time in a Big 12 Championships with a sixth-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles in a personal-best time at the outdoor conference meet... clocked a wind-aided 14.05 in the prelims... just missed qualifying for the finals of the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 10th-place mark of 14.10... ran the third leg leg on the 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay that set the Big 12 and school record to claim silver at the Penn Relays... notched his first regional-qualifying mark at the Kansas Relays with a fifth-place time of 14.22w, while the shuttle relay team won gold in 57.79... set a then-personal best of 14.17 to place fourth at the Nebraska Invite... earned bronze honors at the John Jacobs Invite (14.37)... set his previous personal-best time of 8.06 in the 60-meter hurdles indoors at the Cyclone NCAA Qualifier... clocked a time of 8.12 at four consecutive meets, including a runner-up finish at the Northern Iowa Invite and third-place showing at the KSU Open. 2004: Ross just missed qualifying for the finals of the 110-meter hurdles in his first Big 12 Championships, finishing 10th in 14.77... ran the lead leg of the winning 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay team that set the former school record of 56.14 at the Drake Relays... set a then-indoor career-best time of 8.17 in the 60-meter hurdles to place fifth at the Prairie Wolf Invite... lowered his former personal best in the 110-meter hurdles to 14.46 at the Jim Click Shootout... ran a wind-aided time of 14.42 at the Nebraska Quadrangular, where he also set a career-low wind-aided outdoor time in the 200 with a 22.26. 2003: Ross ran then-career-best times indoors before redshirting the outdoor season... clocked a time of 8.34 in the 60-meter hurdles at the KSU Open, where he finished fifth... crossed the line in 22.96 in the 200 meters at the Holiday Inn Invite... took eighth place in the hurdles at the same meet in 8.59, after winning his preliminary heat in 8.35. High School: Was the 2002 New Jersey Meet of Champions indoor 55-meter hurdles champion with a time of 7.77... was seventh in the Eastern State Indoor Championships in the 55-meter hurdles (7.79)... was third in a personal-record time of 14.37 in the 110-meter hurdles at the New Jersey Group III Championships. Personal: High school coaches were Dennis Weaver and Tom Hengel... major is economics... parents are Edward and Rebecca Ross... father was also a hurdler at Nebraska (1983-84)... brother, Tyrell, also hurdles for the Huskers... born Aug. 6, 1984.