South Carolina freshman high jumper Jeannelle Scheper hit a personal best and scored five points for the Gamecocks at the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships at Spec Towns Track in Athens, Georgia on Saturday.
Scheper, a soon-to-be 17-year-old from the Caribbean island of St Lucia, hit a big personal best on her second jump at 1.79m to place fourth overall in the women's High Jump. Scheper, who earned SEC All-Freshman Team honors as the only freshman to score in the meet, bested her previous personal best of 1.75 to solidify the first points for the women's team at the championships.
The fourth-place finish by Scheper is the best for a women's high jumper in Gamecock history. She tops the fifth-place finish that Julie Symonds had in 1994 for the Gamecocks.
"It feels good especially since I was the only freshmen left in that last set of people," Scheper said. "People kept asking me if I was nervous. All I could say was I was blank. I tried to be as confident as I can because that's always my problem, and it just worked out."
"The big thing of the day was Jeannelle's high jump," South Carolina head coach Curtis Frye said. "For her to PR two times and to jump 5'10 ½ as a freshman coming in mid-year as a 16-year old college student, we're really excited about her performance in the meet."
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