INIKA MCPHERSON
Event: High Jump
Height: 5-4
Weight: 115
PR: 2.00m/6-6.75
Born: 09/29/1986
Current Residence: Oakland, Calif.
Hometown: Port Arthur, Texas
High School: Memorial High School (Port Arthur, Texas) '05
College: University of California, Berkeley ‘09
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USA Championships
2014 USA Outdoors champion (2.00m/6-6.75)
Two-time USA Indoor champion - 2013 (1.89m/6-2.25); 2014 (1.91m/6-3.25)
2013 USA Outdoors runner-up (1.92m/6-3.5)
2012 USA Indoor runner-up (1.87m/6-1.5)
Third at 2011 USA Outdoors (1.86m/6-1.25)
About Inika
The 2013 season finally saw McPherson claim gold, clearing 1.89m/6-2.25 to take first at the USA Indoor Championships. McPherson's momentum from the 2013 season carried over into the 2014 season, as she claimed her second consecutive USA Indoor title. McPherson qualified for her first World Championships team in 2011 after a third-place finish at the USA Outdoor Championships. During her senior year at University of California, Berkeley, she claimed her best finish at an NCAA meet with a fourth-place finish at the Indoor championships and topped the PAC-10 Outdoor Championship as well. In 2007, McPherson finished fourth at USA Outdoors, barely missing the World Outdoor team. McPherson was a 1.88m/6-2 jumper before enrolling at Cal. In 2005, she was the NSIC Indoor champion and in 2004, she finished second at USA Junior Outdoors and competed for Team USA at World Juniors. During her time at Cal she majored in African American studies.
Courtesy USATF
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US Track & Field Athlete, McPherson, Accepts Sanction For Rule Violation
December 19, 2014
USADA announced today that Inika McPherson, of Houston, Texas, an athlete in the sport of track & field, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a twenty-one month sanction for her rule violation.
McPherson, 28, tested positive for benzoylecgonine as a result of an in-competition urine sample she provided on June 29, 2014, at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships held in Sacramento, Calif. Benzoylecgonine is a metabolite of cocaine, a substance in the class of Stimulants prohibited under the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing and the International Association of Athletics Federations (“IAAF”) Anti-Doping Rules, both of which have adopted the World Anti-Doping Code and the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List.
After a thorough review of the case, USADA determined a twenty-one month sanction was appropriate upon concluding that the athlete did not intend to impermissibly enhance her athletic performance through the use of a prohibited stimulant.
McPherson’s sanction began on July 27, 2014, the day she accepted a provisional suspension. In addition, McPherson has been disqualified from all competitive results achieved on and subsequent to June 29, 2014, the date her sample was collected, including forfeiture of any medals, points, and prizes.
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