Jessica Beard
Event: 400m
Height: 5-8
Weight: 130
PR: 50.56 (2009)
Born: 01/08/1989
Current Residence: College Station, Texas
High School: Euclid HS ‘07
College: Texas A&M ‘11
Coach: Vince Anderson
Agent: Mark Wetmore
Sponsor: adidas
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Career Highlights: 2009 World Outdoor Championships 4x400m relay gold medalist; 2011 NCAA Outdoor Champion; 2011 NCAA Indoor Champion; 2010 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; 2010 NCAA Indoor runner-up; 2009 NCAA Outdoor runner-up; Two-time World Junior 4x400m gold medalist; 2008 World Junior silver medalist; three-time USA Junior champion
Beard capped off her senior year of college with indoor and outdoor NCAA championship titles, and went on to qualify for her second senior World team. Beard claimed runner-up honors at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships in a personal best 50.56 and followed it up with a third-place finish at the 2009 USA Outdoor Championships. In high school, she won the 400-meter state title four straight years and chopped 2.54 seconds off the state record, dropping it to 51.63…won the silver medal at the 2008 IAAF World Junior Championships.
2011: 4th at USA Outdoors (51.06)...NCAA Outdoor Champion (51.10)...NCAA Indoor Champion (50.79)..ran on the Texas A&M NCAA Champion 4x100m indoor and 4x400m outdoor teams...Big 12 champion (52.95)
2010: 2nd at NCAA Outdoors (51.02)...Big 12 outdoor champion (52.08)...2nd at NCAA Indoors (52.08)...Big 12 indoor champion (51.15)
2009: 5th in semifinals at World Outdoors (51.20)…3rd at USA Outdoors (50.81)…NCAA Outdoor runner-up (50.56)…1st at Midwest Regionals (51.24)…Big 12 champion (51.53)…NCAA Indoor runner-up (51.77)…ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 50.56.
2008: World Junior runner-up (52.09)…USA Junior champion (52.23)…4th at NCAA Champs (51.75)…1st at Midwest Regionals (51.47)…Big 12 champion (51.09)…3rd at NCAA Indoors (52.48)
2007: 3rd at Pan Am Juniors (51.91)…USA Junior champion (52.19)…Nike Outdoor National champion (52.43)
2006: 5th at World Juniors (52.51)…USA Junior champion (51.89)…Nike Outdoor National champion (52.04)…Golden West champion (52.16).