Honors and Awards
– 2014 All-ACC Academic Indoor Track Team
– 2014 All-ACC Academic Outdoor Track Team
2015 Track:
Indoor: Helped the DMR team to a third-place finish with a time of 11:49.82 at the Vanderbilt Invitational … Ran legs of both the 4×400-meter relay and the 4×800-meter relay which led the team to fifth-place (3:58:67) and second-place (8:59.82) finishes, respectively, at the Doc Hale VT Elite Meet … Placed top-five twice in the mile run, including second-place at the Doc Hale VT Elite Meet (4:52.31) and fourth-place at the Samford University Invitational (4:57.52). Outdoor: Ran a leg of the 4×800-meter relay that broke the school record at the Florida Relays and again at the Penn Relays … Won the 800 meters (2:10.50) at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Improved that time to 2:09.87 at the Georgia Tech Invite … Logged seven top-10 finishes.
2014 Cross Country:
Finished with a time of 18:23 at the Florida Mountain Dew Invitational … Placed fifth for Georgia Tech, and 10th overall out of 161 runners, at the Upstate Invitational with a 5K time of 18:23 … Recorded a season-best 5K at the Crimson Classic, crossing the line in 18:21 … Competed for the Yellow Jackets in the ACC Championships, finishing with a 6K time of 22:26.
2014 Track:
Indoor: Won the mile and crushed her previous personal best by four seconds in the mile (4:51.69) at the Southern Miss Cupid Classic … Ran a leg of the DMR that won the event at the Orange and Purple Classic in 12:33.15. Outdoor: Set a personal best in the 800 meters with a time of 2:11.39 at the Georgia Tech Invite … Shattered her previous best in the 1,500 meters by six seconds with a time of 4:26.30 at the Florida Relays … Placed third in both the 1,500 meters and 800 meters at the Yellow Jacket Invite.
2013 Cross Country:
Finished first for Georgia Tech, and third overall, at the Berry Invitational 6K, with a career-best time of 22:37 … Recorded a career-best 5K time of 19:04 at the Louisville Classic.
2013 Track:
Indoor: Set three personal-bests … Ran the 1,000 meters in 3:00.09 to finish fourth at the Orange & Purple Winter Classic … Logged a PR of 5:04.40 in the mile at the Rod McCravy Invite … Put up a career-best 10:39.79 in the 3,000 meters at the ACC Championships … Helped the DMR to an eighth-place finish at the ACC Championships with a time of 11:58.61. Outdoor: Part of the 4×800-meter relay team that took first at the Georgia Relays with a time of 9:20.13 … Set a PR in the 800 meters (2:17.94) at the ACC Championships … Helped the 4×400-meter relay team to a sixth-place finish (4:02.40) at the Yellow Jacket Invite.
2012 Cross Country:
Did not compete.
2012 Track:
Indoor: Logged a personal-best mile time of 5:11.06 at the Rod McCravy Invite … Ran the 800 meters in 2:19.54 and helped the DMR to a second-place finish (12:28.17) at the VT Elite Invite. Outdoor: Placed first in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:42.65 at the Georgia Intercollegiate Invite … Took third in the same event at the UCF Invite with a time of 4:37.84 … Recorded a personal-best 4:36.24 in the 1,500 meters at the Florida Relays … Completed the 800 meters in 2:18.63 at the Yellow Jacket Invite.
2011 Cross Country:
Crossed the line in a season-best time of 19:23.32 at the Charlotte Invitational … Finished 81st out of 203 runners at the Crimson Classic with a time of 19:31.63 … Recorded a 6K time of 24:00.98 at the Clemson Invite.
High school:
A four-year letter winner under Coach Stephenson at North Cobb High School … Earned the honor of team captain … Holds the school record for the 800m and 1,600m runs … Earned first place in the region meets in these events … Salutatorian of her high school … Awarded President’s Scholar Award, Gold Honor Roll, and Girl Scout Gold Award.
Personal:
Full name is Morgan Lee Jackson … Born on Jan. 29, 1993 in Rockville, Md. … Parents are Tom and Sue … Sister of Mark, James and Regan … Mother, Sue, played field hockey at University of Maryland … Hobbies include hiking, eating, sleeping and watching movies … Majors in biomedical engineering.
