Career
McPherson was a silver medalist at the 2011 Pan Am Games. She represented the United States of America at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 67 kg taekwondo event, and in the preliminary round secured a surprise defeat over Team Great Britain"s Sarah Stevenson. McPherson grew up in Sturgis, South Dakota.
She and four other siblings were adopted by Dave and Susan McPherson.
Her biological family includes an older brother and two half-siblings. She is of Filipino and African-American descent.
She graduated from Black Hills Classical Christian Academy in 2009, and then went on to attend Miami-Dade College.