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2012-13 Track and Field Roster

Elise Jepsen

  • Class Senior
  • Height 0-0
  • Weight 0
  • Hometown Kennewick, Wash.
  • High School Kamiakin HS '09

Biography

Indoor Best at EWU
60m 8.49 • 200m 28.02 • 800m 2:48.96 • 55m Hurdles9.28 • 60m Hurdles 9.56 • High Jump 5-5 • Long Jump15-8 1/4 • Triple Jump 37-1 1/4 • Shot Put 33-4 1/2• Pentathlon 2977

Outdoor Best at EWU

200m 28.07 • 800m 2:43.44 • 100m Hurdles 15.79 •High Jump 5-6 • Long Jump 16-3 • Triple Jump 36-6 1/4• Shot Put 33-8 1/2 • Javelin 81-1 • Heptathlon3994

All-Big Sky Accolades:2012 Outdoor: High Jump, 3rd.

2011-12: Indoor: Sheplaced sixth in the high jump at the BSC Indoor Championships witha jump of 5-3 1/4. Jepsen’s season best came at the IdahoVandal Collegiate, matching her indoor-best jump of 5-4 1/4 andplacing her second overall. Outdoor: Jepsen got on thepodium for the high jump at the BSC Outdoor Championships, placingthird with a personal-best mark of 5-6 to rank her seventh all-timeat Eastern. She also placed 11th in the triple jump with anoutdoor-best mark of 36-6 1/4. She was selected to the winter andspring Big Sky All-Academic teams.

2010-11: Indoor:Jepsen placed fifth in the high jump at the BSC IndoorChampionships with a mark of 5-3. She also had a triple jump of36-9 3/4 at the Indoor Championships to place 10th overall. Jepsenrecorded her personal best of 37-1 1/4 in the triple jump at theCandy Cane Invite, placing second and putting her ninth all-time atEastern. Outdoor: She placed seventh with a season best inthe high jump (5-5) and placed 13th in the triple jump (35-4 1/2)at the BSC Outdoor Championships. She also ran a personal-best timeof 15.79 in the 100 hurdles at the Oregon Relays, placing 12thoverall. Jepsen was selected to the winter and spring Big SkyAll-Academic teams.

2009-10: Indoor:Jepsen placed 11th at the BSC Indoor Championships in the high jumpwith a mark of 5-0 1/4. She also competed in the indoor pentathlonduring her freshman indoor season with her best performance comingat the WSU Cougar Indoor Invitational when she scored 2977 pointsin the five-event competition. She scored 773 in the 60-meterhurdles with a time of 9.69, helping her to a ninth-place finish.Outdoor: Jepsen qualified for the outdoor conferencechampionships in the heptathlon where she scored 3976 points toplace 11th overall. Her highest-scoring event was the high jump(724) after jumping 5-2 1/2. She also tied for seventh in the openhigh jump at the Championships with a mark of 5-3. Herhighest-scoring heptathlon came earlier in the season at theWhitworth Buc Scoring Invite where she placed first with 3994points to rank tenth-all time at Eastern.  She was selected tothe winter and spring Big Sky All-Academic teams.

High School: Jepsen was aversatile athlete for the Kamiakin Braves, competing in both trackand volleyball all four years. She was a 3A State Champion in thehigh jump her sophomore year.  She had finishes of second(2008) and eighth (2009) in the high jump. She also qualified forthe State Championships in the triple jump three times includingfinishes of fourth (2007), fifth (2008) and 14th (2009). Her besthigh school marks were in the high jump (5-4), triple jump (37-21/2) and 100 hurdles (15.92). She was a scholar athlete at Kamiakinall four years and garnered first team all-league honors four timesin track for the high jump, once in the triple jump and twice involleyball as well.

Personal: Health and Fitness major. Born 4/8/91in Kennewick, Wash. Her parents are David and Laura Jepsen.

Historical Player Information

  • 2009-10Freshman

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  • 2010-11Sophomore

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  • 2011-12Junior

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  • 2012-13Senior

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