Karen Jackson

Distance
Junior
Bloomington, Ill. (Downs-Tri Valley)

2008: Finished eighth in the 5,000-meter run (19:03.89) at the CCIW Outdoor Track and Field Championship…won the 5,000-meter run (18:29.54) at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship

2007:  Injured and did not compete.

High School:  Four-year member of the track and field team and coached by Laban Cross…in cross country, set school records in both the two and one-half mile and three-mile events…four-year member of the basketball team…National Honor Society member and high honors student.

Personal:  Biology major…member of the 2006 and 2007 Carthage women’s cross country teams…named to the Carthage dean’s list four times and five-time member of the Carthage athletic director’s honor roll…born April 5, 1988.