Coach 'singing the praises of jumpers Culmer and Palacious

Tue, Feb 7th 2012, 10:00 PM

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

A FEW years ago, assistant coach Andre Scott was beaming with excitement over the performance of national long jump record holder Bianca Stuart at Southern Illinois.

Today, Scott is still in awe of Stuart's accomplishment as a graduate of SIU's Saluki women's track and field team. But now he is singing the praises of two more jumpers - Kenya Culmer and Douglas Palacious.

Over the weekend at the 2012 Saluki Invitational in Carbondale, Illinois, Culmer highlighted the meet with a personal best of 5-feet, 10-inches to shatter the school's indoor record of 5-9 3/4 set by Felicia Hill in 1999.

Culmer, in her sen ...

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