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Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts Golden Eagles

2014-15 Track and Field

Preston Morrison

  • Class Redshirt
  • Events Pole Vault
  • Hometown Guntersville, Ala.
  • High School Guntersville, HS
  • Previous School Guntersville, HS

Biography

Career Bests (following high school career)
Pole Vault - 14-6



Previous School 
Redshirted the season at Alabama



High School
Set the Guntersville HS pole vault record (14-6) despite picking up the sport late in his high school career ... finished second at the state meet in his first year competing (junior) and won the state championship as a senior in just his second year ... was the team MVP both seasons ... also a member of the varsity football team as a junior and senior, earning Most Dedicated FB honors as a junior ... outside of competition, published a poem in a collegiate scholastic magazine and was an all-state choir member in 2008.



Personal
Son of Jeff and Tina Morrison ... majoring in business marketing at ORU with hopes of continuing his pole vault career or opening a training facility ... father Jeff was a football player and track athlete at Hines Junior College ... chose ORU over Grand Canyon, Mississippi State and South Alabama because of Coach (Joe) Dial's success with pole vaulters.



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