LaNissa Burns

  • Award
    Student-Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/1/2016
  • Sport
    Women's Indoor Track & Field
  • School
    McMurry University
  • Year
  • Position
  • Hometown
  • High School

For the second-consecutive week, LaNissa Burns shattered the McMurry University school record in the shot put, while also putting up the NCCAA's leading mark at the Kansas Jayhawk Classic. Burns eclipsed her own record, set a week earlier, by 22 inches with a heave of 45' 0.5". The senior from Austin, Texas also took second in the weight throw with a distance of 56’ 0.5” only losing to an NCAA I athlete.
 
 
 
 
WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD – FIELD NOMINEES: LaNissa Burns, McMurry University; Anna Grace Govero, Mississippi College