LaNissa Burns

  • Award
    Student-Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/22/2016
  • Sport
    Women's Indoor Track & Field
  • School
    McMurry University
  • Year
  • Position
  • Hometown
  • High School

In winning two throwing events at the NCCAA Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Championship, McMurry University's LaNissa Burns capped a great indoor season. Burns, a senior from Austin, Texas, not only won the shot put, but set a new NCCAA record for the event by three inches with a distance of 46’ 09.00”.  In the weight throw, Burns had a distance of 55’ 00.75” to take the title.
 
 
  
WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD – FIELD NOMINEES: LaNissa Burns, McMurry University; Kiana Grant, Mississippi College