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Liz Peterson enters her second season with the Missouri Track & Field staff, serving as a volunteer assistant coach.
Peterson was a heptathlete for the Tigers and was a four-time All-Big 12 performer. Peterson, a team co-captain, was also a pole vaulter and remains in the Missouri all-time top five in the event.
Peterson became the first female athlete at Missouri to compete in a decathlon event and set the first school record of 6,019 points at the 2005 Audrey Walton Combined Events. Peterson grabbed a new personal best in the heptathlon with a score of 4,848 points at the 2006 Drake Relays.
Peterson graduated from Missouri with a degree in nutrition and fitness and was a USTFCCCA All-Academic Award winner while at Mizzou.
Peterson, the former Liz Young, is married to 2004 Olympian Derrick Peterson and has two children, Issac (6) and Athena (1).
Updated September 22, 2006
* Four-time All-Big 12
* Mizzou All-Time Top Five (Pole Vault)
* Mizzou All-Time Top Five (Indoor Pentathlon)
* USTCA All-Academic Award Winner
* 2006 Co-Captain
PERSONAL BESTS:
INDOOR
PENT, 3734, ISU Classic '05
60mH, 9.34, ISU Classic '05
HJ, 1.70m, 5-7, Husker '04
PV, 3.65m, 11-11¾, MU-KU-KSU '04
OUTDOOR
HEPT, 4,848, Drake '06
DEC, 6,019, Walton CE '05
100mH, 14.55, Big 12 '05
HJ, 1.75m, 5-8¾, Big 12 '03
PV, 3.70m, 12-1½, Neb Quad '04
LJ, 5.67m, Big 12 '06
2006:
Outdoor: Finished fourth and earned first heptathlon All-Big 12 honors at Big 12 Outdoor meet with career-best score of 4,908.
Indoor: Placed sixth and earned pentathlon All-Big 12 honors for the first time in her career at Big 12 Indoor meet ... winner of the Missouri All-Comers high jump event.
2005:
Outdoor: Became the first Missouri woman to ever compete in a women's decathlon, doing so at the Walton Combined Events ... finished 12th at the Big 12 Outdoor in the heptathlon with a season-best 4,525 ... secured a new personal best in the 100-meter hurdles (14.55) and javelin (82-5) at the conference meet ... USTCA All-Academic award winner
Indoor: All-Big 12 with a seventh-place finish in the pentathlon at the confernce indoor meeting, scoring 3,431 points ... new pentathlon personal best came a the Iowa State Classic with a NCAA-provisional score of 3,734, finishing in the top 50 in the nation ... grabbed a new PR in the 60-meter hurdles (9.34) and shot put (35-1 3/4) at the Iowa State meet as well.
2004:
Outdoor: Pole vaulted to Mizzou's all-time top five with a vault of 12-1½ (3.70m) at the Nebraska Quadrangular ... placed 10th at the Big 12 Championships in the heptathlon with season-best score of 4,494.
Indoor: Entered into the Missouri all-time top five in the pole vault with indoor personal best of 11-11¾ (3.65m) ... placed ninth at the Husker Invitational pentathlon, 12th at the Big 12 Championships.
2003:
Outdoor: All-Big 12 and NCAA Regional qualifier in the high jump after sixth place, personal best performance of 5-8¾ in the high jump ... finished ninth in the heptathlon with a score of 4,842 in the Big 12 Championships.
Indoor: Participated in the high jump and heptathlon at the Big 12 Championships.
2002:
Outdoor: Redshirt season.
High School:
A state champion as a member of 4x800-meter relay team for the Crusaders in 2000 ... runner-up at the state meet in the high jump her junior year ... in 2000, was all-state in the 4x800 relay, 4x400 relay, 300-meter hurdles, and the high jump event ... also an all-district, all-conference volleyball player.
Personal:
Daughter of John & Mary Ann Young ... majoring in nutrition & fitness ... psychology and anthropology minors ... formally Liz Young, married Missouri Olympian Derrick Peterson in October 2005 ... has a son, Issac, that was born October 9, 2001 ... wants to get a research teaching degree after receiving a undergraduate degree ... born December 4, 1982 in Jefferson City, Mo.
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