Anthony Jackson
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- Hometown:
- Manchester, Tenn.
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- Position:
- Mid-Distance
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- Year:
- Senior
Bio
2017-18: Member of school record DMR of 11:05.48 during indoor season...
2016: Competed in all five meets on the season with a year’s best finish of seventh at the Tusculum Open…Jackson also tallied his best time at the season’s opening meet with a 17:59.9 time in the five-kilometer run… In his first three years apart of the Carson-Newman cross country team, Jackson has yet to miss a meet…
Tusculum Open: 7th- 17:59.9
Maryville College Invitational: 11th- 31:18.01
Royals Challenge: 175th- 27:32.3
SAC Championships: 48th- 29:00.6
Southeast Regionals: 125th- 35:06.31
2014-2015: Competed in distance events, including trials in the 1500m, 800m and 4 X 400m runs... Had a season-best2:00.74 time and third-place finish in the 800m run at the Shorter and Sewanee Invitaional Meets...
Power Sox Invitational
1500m run: 27th- 4:35.43
Appalachian Indoor Open
800m run: 9th- 2:07.33
Sewanee Invitational
800m run: 3rd- 2:04.96
Shorter Invitational
800m run: 14th- 2:00.74
Buccaneer Invitational
34th- 2:05.74
High School: Graduated from Coffee County Central High School... Played basketball and ran track for the Raiders... Placed fifth and achieved personal record of 2:04 in the 800m at TSSAA-AAA Section 2 Sub-Sectional meet... Named Defensive Player of the Year in basketball from 2012 to 2014... A member of the Beta Club, National Honors Society, Future Business Leaders of America, Interact, President of the Teen Council and won the Army Award for Student-Athlete Academics.
Personal: Son of Anthony and Karen Jackson... Sister, Sandra Adams, played basketball at Penn State University... Plans to major in Accounting... Born on March 20th, 1996...Also runs cross country at Carson-Newman...
News mentions
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Carson-Newman Track & Field garnered the chance to experience the Irwin Belk Complex this weekend for the Johnson C. Smith Invitational.
MONTREAT, N.C. – Carson-Newman opened their 2018 outdoor season with a bang on Saturday at the Montreat College Invitational.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Saturday marked another impressive day for Carson-Newman in consecutive weekends as the Eagles brought home the top two spots in the high jump, and Luke Greer broke a program indoor record at the 2018 ETSU Buccaneer Invitational.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Carson-Newman athletes made a splash on day one of the 2018 ETSU Buccaneer Invitational on Friday with a collection of runners heading to various finals and earning new bests in the process.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Day one of the 2018 ETSU Invitational & Knoxville Youth Atletics HS Indoor Classic brought forth season-best times and school records for C-N athletes who competed against Division 1 and Olympic talent at the David E. Walker Indoor site.
The Carson-Newman men’s and women’s track team had a record day in day two of the Bast-Cregger Invitational on Saturday inside the Kerr-Cregger Field House.