PEP RALLY SET NEXT FRIDAY FOR McPHERSON
Published 11:17 pm Thursday, July 21, 2016
Inika McPherson will be honored with a pep rally beginning at 7 p.m. July 29 at her alma mater Memorial High. Doors will open at 6.
McPherson qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the high jump, finishing third in the U.S. trials on July 4. It is the first Olympic appearance for the 2014 outdoor national champion, who was a part of Memorial’s third graduating class in 2005 before building an All-America resume at California.
McPherson is the ninth person with ties to greater Port Arthur and the eighth such athlete to participate in an Olympiad.
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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