Career
McPherson is usually easy to spot, with tattoos and a variety of hairstyles and mohawks to keep her boldly as a fashion leader. She has represented the United States at the 2007 Pan American Games, the 2011 and 2013 World Championships and the 2012 and 2014 World Indoor Championships. Her improvements have been in bursts.
She moved into the rarefied air of elite competition by going 1.95 at the 2012 Mountain.
SAC Relays, sill finishing second to the eventual Olympic silver medalist Brigetta Barrett. But McPherson didn"t make it to the Olympics, not even clearing the bar in qualifying at the Olympic Trials later that year, due to a 6 mm tear in her right quad.
She was told not to compete by her doctor but did anyway. McPherson shares the freshman high school record with Amy Acuff 6 foot
Was also named Entertainment and Sports Programming Network female high jumper of the decade.
Her high school best was 6"2" (187 m). She also excelled in the triple jump and lettered in four sports, was Texas All-State and carried a 5.0 Grade Point Average. Her next stop was the University of California, Berkeley where she set the school indoor record and was a three time National Collegiate Athletic Association All American, though she didn"t get back to the range of her 6"2" from high school. Due to an injury she battled with during her years at Cal which caused her to have ankle surgery on her take off foot in 2008.
McPherson tested positive for benzoylecgonine, the main metabolite of cocaine, at the 2014 United States of America Outdoor Track and Field Championships and subsequently accepted a 21-month doping ban through March 2016.