Samantha Howell

Class:
Junior
Hometown:
West Windsor, N.J.

Howell[apos]s Personal Bests
High Jump, Indoor: 5-05.00
High Jump, Outdoor: 5-05.00
Long Jump, Indoor: 17-00
200m, Outdoor: 28.02
100m Hurdles: 16.28
2011 Outdoor
Competed in the high jump on four different occasions during the season ... Top jump of 5-5 came at the Wake Forest Open, where she claimed first-place honors ... Also jumped 5-5 at the Raleigh Relays to place fourth overall ... Turned in a mark of 5-3 to place 15th at the Auburn Invitational ... Finished fourth in the high jump at the Vertklasse Meeting with a jump of 5-1.25. 2011 Indoor
Competed in two meets during the season ... Cleared a height of 5-03 at the Virginia Tech Invitational to place ninth ... Also cleared 5-03 at the Liberty Quad Meet to place second overall. 2010 Outdoor
Ran a season-best time of 28.02 at the Wake Forest Open in March 2010 ... Recorded a mark of 5-03.00 in the high jump at the Raleigh Relays. 2010 Indoor
Ran a season best in the 200m with a time of 28.54 at the Hokie Invitational ... Earned fourth with a 5-05.0 finish in the high jump at the UNC Invitational. 2009 Outdoor
Finished 10th in the heptathlon at the Deacon Combined Events with 3,822 points ... Notched personal-bests in the 100m hurdles (16.28) and the high jump (5-04.50) on the first day of the DCE ... Placed 10th at the Clemson Classic in the 100m hurdles with a time of 16.35 ... Ran a season best time of 28.39 in the 200m dash at the Auburn Tiger Classic ... Took 14th in the high jump at the ACC Championships with a height of 5-02.55 ... Recorded a mark of 82-04 in the javelin at the Clemson Classic. 2009 Indoor
Finished her freshman indoor campaign by taking 18th at the ACC Championships in the pentathlon ... Recorded a season best long jump of 17-00 at the NY Armory Duals where she also finished second in the high jump ... Had a mark of 5-05.00 in the high jump at the Virginia Tech Elite ... Ran a season best time of 9.86 in the 60m hurdles at the Virginia Tech Invite. Background
Full name is Samantha Jane Howell ... Earned seven varsity letters in indoor and outdoor track & field ... Won the 2007 New Jersey High School Pentathlon Championship with a total score of 2,987 ... Was a three-time winner of the of the high jump at the Mercer County Championships with a mark of 5-6 all three years ... Finished 4th with a mark of 17-04.25 in the long jump at the New Jersey Central Sectional in the spring of 2007 ... Earned second team All-State honors in the high jump during the 2008 season ... Also earned first team Mercer Country honors in the high jump during both the 2007 winter and the 2008 spring seasons ... Three-year team captain.