Education
Kansas State University.
Kansas State University.
On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women"s decathlon world record, with a score of 8366. She is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the heptathlon. Her personal best in the 7-event heptathlon of 6599 was set on 4 August at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
During that competition she set the World Heptathlon Best in the Shot Put at 17.31 m (56 ft 91⁄4 in).
In 2002, she also took second in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the shot put competition.