Jaashir Morris Season 2014-15

QUICK NOTES: Member of two 4x400m relay teams that rank in the program’s all-time Top 10 with both marks coming during the 2017 indoor season… anchored the team to a time of 3:13.64 for the #3 time in UC history… also ran the anchor leg of the #7 time of 3:14.47.
 
2017-18 SEASONS
2017 OUT (JR): Ran the 400m hurdles much of the season, finishing fifth overall at the AAC Championships… ran a season-best 52.88 in the preliminary round at the conference meet… won the event at the Oliver Nikoloff Open and took second at the All-Ohio Championships… ran the 200m dash once, turning in a PR time of 22.22 at the Kentucky Relays… helped the 4x400m relay to a sixth-place showing at the AAC meet as the team ran 3:13.59… also helped the relay win two meets on the year, including the Nikoloff Open and the All-Ohio Championships.
2017 IN (JR): Race in the 200m, 300m and 400m dashes during the season… ran the 300m once, finishing third overall at the Hoosier Open with a time of 35.09, the #7 time in program history… scored at the conference meet in the 400m, finishing seventh overall… ran a season and career-best time of 48.90 at the Music City Challenge… ran a PR of 22.17 in the 200m at the Kentucky Invitational… also helped the 4x400m relay team to a pair of all-time Top 10 marks in program history… anchored the team to a time of 3:13.64 to move up to #3 in UC history while finishing third overall at the Music City Challenge… same team ran together at the AAC Championships and placed fourth with a time of 3:14.47, the #7 time in program history.
 
2015-16 SEASONS
2016 OUT (SO): Conference point scorer in the 400m hurdles for the second year in a row, this time improving two positions to place sixth at the American Athletic Conference Championships… ran a lifetime-best 52.84 in the conference finals, just 0.3 off a place in the program’s all-time Top 10… took runner-up honors in a pair of meets in the 400m hurdles, including the Hurricane Twilight and the Lyle/Wood Invitational… raced on the 4x400m relay twice, helping those teams to the second and fourth-fastest times on the year… capped the year earning American Athletic Conference All-Academic honors.
2016 IN (SO): Ran the lead leg of the 4x400m relay that finished fifth at the American Athletic Conference Championships… team ran a season-best 3:16.73… placed 14^th in the 400m dash in a season-best 49.55… posted sub-50 second times in the 400m in three of his four races on the year.
 
2014-15 SEASONS
2015 OUT (FR): Scored at the conference meet in the 400m hurdles by finishing eighth overall in 54.62… also helped the 4x400m relay to a third-place finish… ran a personal-best 53.94 in the 400m hurdles at the Tennessee Relays… that time also stands as the 11th fastest in UC history… qualified for the USA Junior National Championships in the 400m hurdles.
2015 IN (FR): Opened his collegiate career at the Hoosier Open and ran the sixth-fastest time in program history in the 500m as he clocked in at 1:04.83… competed at the American Indoor Championships in the 400m and 4x400m events… ran an indoor-best 49.12 at the Kentucky Invitational to finish seventh overall.

PRIOR TO UC: Two-time New Jersey State Meet of Champions qualifier in the 400m hurdles... two-time Greater Middlesex Conference Champion... sat out the 2014 outdoor season because of an injury.

Personal Bests – Indoor
200m – 22.17 (Kentucky Invitational – 1/14/17)
300m – 35.09 (Hoosier Open – 12/9/16) – UC #7
400m – 48.90 (Music City Challenge – 2/11/17)
500m – 1:04.83 (Hoosier Open – 12/12/14) – UC #6

Personal Bests – Outdoor
200m – 22.22 (Kentucky Relays – 5/6/17)
400m – 49.60 (Oliver Nikoloff Invitational – 4/2/16)
400mH – 52.84 (American Outdoor Championships – 5/15/16) – UC #11
800m – 1:59.31 (Oliver Nikoloff Invite – 3/28/15)