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 | Class: Senior
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 | Hometown: Lappeenranta, Finland
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 | High School: Kimpisen Iukio
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 | Height: 5-7
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 | Event: Multi-Events
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2007 League Outdoor Outstanding Field Performer
2006 League Indoor/Outdoor Field Newcomer of the Year
2008 League Outdoor High Jump Champion
2007 League Javelin Champion
2007 League Heptathlon Champion
2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Second Team
2006/07 League Pentathlon Champion
2006/07 League Outdoor Long Jump Champion
All-League Second Team (2006/08 Javelin, 2007 Outdoor High Jump, 2008 Indoor High Jump)
2009: Did not compete in 2009, maintaining senior eligibility. 2008 Indoor: Tied for second in the high jump to earn all-league second team honors and took third in the long jump at the league meet ... also competed in the triple jump, taking sixth, and the 60m hurdles ... won the pentathlon at the Wisconsin Elite Invitational ... was then named league player of the week. Outdoor: Won a league title in the high jump, just one of five events she competed in at the league meet ... also earned all-league second team honors as runner-up in the javelin, took seventh in the 100m hurdles, eighth in the long jump and ninth in the triple jump ... tied for first in the high jump at the Big Blue Classic ... broke the school heptathlon record with a score of 5,021 at the Sea Ray Relays ... took seventh in the event and was named league athlete of the week for her efforts. 2007 Indoor: Repeated as league pentathlon champ, breaking school and league records with 3,700 points, an NCAA Provisional mark ... also took third in the long jump, fourth in the high jump and eighth in the 60m hurdles ... previously broke the school pentathlon mark in taking second at the ISU Cyclone Classic with 3,688 points ... named Horizon League Scholar-Athlete of the Week after the meet ... tied for first in the 60m hurdles and took fifth in the shot put at the UWM Double Dual. Outdoor: Named Outstanding Field Performer at the league meet after winning the heptathlon, long jump and javelin events ... also took second in the high jump and sixth in the 100m hurdles ... was named league Scholar-Athlete of the Week after the league meet, as well as after the Big Blue Classic ... at that meet, won the long jump with a season best jump of 19-0, took second in the high jump, third in the javelin and sixth in the 100m hurdles ... took second in the heptathlon at the Kansas Relays. 2006 Indoor: Won the league pentathlon championship with a school-record score of 3459 points ... also placed third in the high jump and long jump ... already among the top-10 in school history in pentathlon, high jump (t-5th), long jump (t-7th) and 60m hurdles (10th). Outdoor: Set a school record in winning the league long jump title with a leap of 19-9 1/2 ... was also second in the javelin with the second-best throw in school history, third in the high jump and fifth in both the triple jump and 100m hurdles ... set a school record in the heptathlon with 4993 points at the Drake Relays ... won the heptathlon at the Big Blue Multi-Event meet ... was then named the league's athlete of the week.
Personal
Formerly Jenni Saarinen, married to B.J. Parish ... attended Cedarburg High School in Wisconsin as a foreign exchange student in 2002-03.