TORA HARRIS
Event: High Jump
Height: 6-3
Weight: 183
PR: 2.33m/7-7.75 (2006)
Born: September 21, 1978 in College Park, Ga.
Current Residence: Chula Vista, Calif.
High School: St. Atlanta (HS) '98
College: Princeton '02
Coach: Frans Bosch
Agent: Charles Wells
Club: Shore A.C.

Career Highlights: 2006 USA Outdoor champion; 2007 USA Indoor champion; 2002 NCAA Indoor & Outdoor high jump champ; 2001 World University Games bronze medalist; 7-time Heps champion; 5-time NCAA All-American

Harris enjoyed his finest season in 2006 highlighted by his win at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships, with his personal best winning jump of 2.33m/7-7.75, the best by an American that season. Harris’ 2005 campaign got off to a fantastic start in winning his first U.S. national title at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Boston with a clearance of 2.27m/7-5.25. Harris had an outstanding season in 2004, placing second at the USA Indoor Championships prior to making the U.S. Olympic Team with his third-place at the Olympic Trials in Sacramento. He has made a name for himself as one of the top high jumpers in the U.S., and in 2002 he earned his first #1 U.S. ranking. The five-time All-American won his first NCAA title in March 2002 at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a jump of 2.26m/7-5, and he added the NCAA outdoor title for good measure. The win came after a successful summer in 2001, when Harris won the bronze medal at the World University Games in Beijing, China, with a jump that was just 1 cm off his personal best. Harris was a hit with the locals in Beijing his mother is Taiwanese and Harris speaks fluent Chinese…while at Princeton Harris never lost a Heps title, indoors or outdoors.

2007: USA Indoor champion (2.29m/7-6).
2006: 1st at USA Outdoors (2.33m/7-7.75)…3rd at World Cup (2.24m/7-4.25)…2nd at Shanghai (2.31m/7-7)…ranked #8 in world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN…best of 2.33m/7-7.75.
2005: 7th at USA Outdoor Champs (2.17m/7-01.50)...USA Indoor champ (2.27m/7-5.25)...3rd in Bydgoszcz (2.23m/7-3.75)...2nd at Shanghai (2.29m/7-6)...ranked #6 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.29m/7-6.
 2004: Tied for 2nd at USA Indoors (2.20m/7-2.5) ...3rd at Olympic Trials (2.27m/7-5.25)...did not qualify for Olympic Games final (2.15m/7-0.5)...ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.27m/7-5.25.
 2003: 3rd at USA Indoors (2.30m/7-6.50)...5th at USA Outdoors (2.22m/7-3.25)...16th in qualifying group at World Outdoors (2.22m/7-3.25)...2nd at Buhl (2.27m/7-5.25)...ranked #4 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.30m/7-6.5
2002: Won NCAA Indoor title with a leap of 2.26m/7-5... won NCAA Outdoor title (2.25m/7-4.50)...5th at USA Outdoors (2.24m/7-4.25)...won Heps outdoors (2.31m/7-7PR)..1st at Penn Relays (2.30m/7-6.50)...2nd at Nike Prefontaine (2.30m/7-6.5)...5th at Eberstadt (2.30m/7-6.5)...won Heps indoors (7-1.75)...ranked #6 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 2.31m/7-7PR.
2001: World University Games bronze medalist (2.26m/7-5)...4th at USA Outdoor Champs (2.24m/7-4.25)...4th at NCAA Outdoors (2.24m/7-4.25)...no-height at NCAA Indoors...won Heps indoors and outdoors...ranked #5 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 2.27m/7-5.25.
2000: Tied for 7th at Olympic Trials (2.22m/7-3.25)...did not compete collegiately in order to prepare for Olympic Trials... best of 2.25m/7-4.50.
1999: 5th at NCAA Outdoors (7-4.25 school record and PR)...13th at NCAA Indoors (7-1.5) ...1st at Heptagonals indoors (6-11) and outdoors (7-0.5)...1st at IC4As....best of 2.24m/7-4.25.
1998: 7th at NCAA Outdoors...1st at Heptagonals indoors (7-1.5) ...and outdoors (7-1.75)...1st at IC4A outdoors (7-3 PR), 2nd indoors...best of 2.21m/7-3.

2/9/07