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Track & Field

Player Bio: Tessa Flippin

  Tessa Flippin
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Minneapolis, MN
High School:
Minnehaha Academy
Position:
High Jump

Collegiate Career Bests:
High Jump5-7 (1.70m)

2008 Season (Junior): Placed 14th in the high jump at the Pac-10 Championships...finished second in the high jump at the Big Meet with a season-best leap of 5-7.

2007 Season (Sophomore): Leaped a career-best 5-7 (1.70m) in the high jump at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational.

2006 Season (Freshman): Recorded a season-best high jump of 5-5 (1.65m) at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational...indoors, leaped a season-best 5-5 ¼ (1.66m) in the high jump at the MPSF Championship.

High School: A 2005 graduate of Minnehaha Academy...the Minnesota state high jump champion in 2004...competed in the high jump with a personal best of 5-9 (1.76m)...an all-state athlete in basketball, soccer and track.

Cardinal Catalogue: Science, technology and society major...parents are Tollie Flippin and Karen Johnson...interns in Stanford's athletic media relations department...Pac-10 All-Academic in 2008.