Events: Heptathlon
Height: 5-7
Weight: 140
PRs: 6,502 (2005); 100mH - 13.09; HJ - 1.88m/6-2; SP - 12.69m/41-7.75; 200m - 23.53; LJ - 6.67m/21-10.75; JT - 46.90m/153-10; 800m - 2:16.88 Pentathlon - 4,417i (2005)
Born: Jan. 14, 1981, in Columbus, Ga.
Current Residence: Kettering, Ohio
High School: Central Dauphin HS (Enola, Pa.) ‘00
College: Barton CC '02, Georgia ‘04
Coach: Tanya Lee
Agent: self
Club: Nike
Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic silver medalist in heptathlon; 2-time USA Outdoor champion ('05, '07); 2005 USA Indoor pentathlon champion; 2003 NCAA champion; 2004 NCAA Outdoor LJ champion; 2004 NCAA Indoor LJ and pentathlon champ
Fountain won her second heptathlon title at the 2007 USA Outdoor Championships...Her mark in the shot put (12.69m/41-7.75 was a personal-best...won her first national crown as a professional in the heptathlon at the 2005 USA Outdoor Championships with a strong second-day performance, scoring 6,208 points total. In Day 2, the 2004 NCAA long jump champion leaped 6.25m/20-6.25 in the long jump (927), threw 46.05 in the javelin (784) and ran 2:16.88 in the 800 (867) to move from fourth after day one to first at the close of competition...Not only an NCAA heptathlon champion, Fountain is also an outstanding long jumper, triple jumper, high jumper and hurdler...credits her mother for introducing her to the sport at age 7. With Jackie Joyner-Kersee as her idol, Fountain says that in school she always wrote papers on her, or Wilma Rudolph. Because heptathlon was not offered in Pennsylvania high schools, she had to wait until college...in 2002, she won 5 NJCAA titles and had three runner-up finishes for Barton CC.
Competition Results:
2008: 2nd at Olympic Games (6619)
2007: USA Outdoor champion (6,090)...DNF at World Outdoors...ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 6,090.
2006: USA Outdoor runner-up (6,148)...8th in pentathlon at World Indoors (4,205)...2nd at NACAC Champs (5,956)...ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 6,148.
2005: USA Outdoor heptathlon champion (6,208)...12th at World Outdoors (6,055)...3rd at Gotzis (6,502PR)...USA Indoor pentathlon champion (4,417i)...3rd in 60H at USA indoors (8.22), 2nd in LJ (6.29m/20-7.75i)...1st in LJ at Johnson City (6.35m/20-10i)...1st in 60mH at Chapel Hill (8.15i)...ranked #7 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 6,502.
2004: 4th at Olympic Trials (6,035 PR)...NCAA Outdoor long jump champion (6.61m/21-8.25 SR)...NCAA Outdoor heptathlon runner-up (5,785)...SEC Outdoor long jump (6.59m/21-7.5) and high jump (1.77m/5-9.75) champion...3rd in the TJ (13.40m/43-11.75PR) and 4th in 100mH (13.11PR) at SEC Outdoors...NCAA Indoor long jump (6.58m/21-7.25) and pentathlon (4,412) champion...SEC Indoor pentathlon (4,417CR), high jump (1.79m/5-10.5) and long jump (6.44m/21-1.5) champion...1st in heptathlon at Ole Miss Invitational (6,033 SR)...ranked #4 at HEP and #6 at LJ in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 6,035.
2003: NCAA Outdoor champion (5,999)...SEC Outdoor champion (5,626)...2nd at Sea Ray Relays (5,282)...SEC Indoor champion (4,164)...2nd in LJ at Knoxville (6.51m/21-4.25)...1st in HJ at Gainesville (1.81m/5-11.25i)...best of 5,999, 1.81m/5-11.25i (HJ), 6.51m/21-4.25 (LJ).
2002: NJCAA Outdoor (5,673w) champion...9th in the heptathlon at the USA Outdoor Combine Events Championships (5,136)...best of 5,673.
2001: NJCAA Outdoor heptathlon champion.
2000: USA Junior high jump champion (1.83m/6-0)...best of 1.83m/6-0.
