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Track and Field

2017-18 Track and Field Roster

Aaron C Packard/USD
Kirk Meche
Tim Sanger
Molly Sheppard
Dave Eggen/Inertia
Justin Casterline

Shanice Cannigan

  • Position Hurdles
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Rusea's HS
  • Hometown Lucea, Jamaica

Biography

Career Bests

2017-18
Indoor Track & Field
All-American in the pentathlon … earned second-team All-America accolades with a 15th-place finish in the pentathlon with a score of 3,943 points at the NCAA Indoor Championships … Summit League Indoor Track Athlete of the Year … Summit League Most Outstanding Championship Performer … Summit League Champion in the pentathlon and 60-meter hurdles … broke the Summit League Championship records in both events, tallying 4,106 points in the pentathlon and clocking 8.41 seconds in the preliminaries of the 60 hurdles … won the finals of the 60 hurdles in 8.47 seconds … both Summit marks were also South Dakota school records … also placed sixth in the high jump with a height of 5-4 ½ and sixth in the long jump with a leap of 18-10 ¾ at the Summit meet … leaped a personal best of 19-3 ½ in the long jump during the Summit League pentathlon to rank fourth in school history in the event … victorious in the pentathlon at the Jack Johnson Classic with a score of 3,899 points … won the 60 hurdles at Dakota Realty Alumni Meet in 8.61 seconds … also captured the pentathlon with 3,781 points at the SDSU Holiday Open … finished runner-up in the 60 hurdles in 8.56 seconds and placed second in the long jump in 19-3 ½ at the Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational … took second in the 60 hurdles at the Hawkeye Invitational with a clocking of 8.65 seconds … recorded 16 top-10 finishes during the season … named Summit League February Athlete of the Month … earned Academic All-Summit League honors ... named USTFCCCA All-Academic.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Summit League Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year ... Summit League Most Outstanding Championship Performer … named USD’s Catie Tobin Female Athlete of the Year … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the 100-meter hurdles … Summit League Champion in the 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles … victorious in the 100 hurdles for the third-straight year … broke her own school record in the 100 hurdles at the Summit League Championships with a clocking of 13.43 seconds … captured the 400 hurdles in 1:01.65 … also garnered all-Summit honors as a member of the Coyotes’ 4x400-meter relay which placed third in 3:47.49 … placed fourth in the high jump in 5-5 ¾ and eighth in the long jump at 19-4 ¾ at the Summit League Championships … placed 44th in the 100 hurdles at the NCAA West Preliminary with a time of 14.11 seconds … swept the 100 hurdles and 400 hurdles titles at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays, clocking 13.77 seconds and 1:01.07, respectively … clocked a season best of 1:00.15 for 400 hurdles to win the Texas State Bobcat Invitational … victorious in a trio of events at the South Dakota Invitational, winning the 100 hurdles 13.74 seconds, the 400 hurdles in 1:01.35 and the 4x100 meter relay in 46.53 seconds … captured the 400 hurdles at the Sioux City Relays in 1:01.21 … finished 24th in the 100 hurdles with a time of 13.83 seconds at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays … tallied 14 top-10 finishes, including nine event wins, during the season … earned Academic All-Summit League honors ... named USTFCCCA All-Academic … made the Summit League honor roll.

2016-17
Indoor Track & Field
Summit League champion in the 60-meter hurdles for the second-straight year with a clocking of 8.51 seconds … one of six Coyotes to capture a Summit crown … also earned all-Summit League honors in the pentathlon by finishing runner-up with a score of 3,968 points … broke her own South Dakota program records in the 60 hurdles (8.51) and pentathlon (3,968) at the Summit meet … also took fourth in the high jump and fifth in the long jump at the Summit League Championships … won the pentathlon at the Jack Johnson Classic with a score of 3,832 points … the score ranked ninth in the NCAA at the time … posted a personal best of 19-1 ¼ in the long jump of the Jack Johnson pentathlon to move to fifth on USD’s all-time charts in the long jump … victorious in the 60 hurdles at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet and the USD Last Chance Meet … swept the 60 hurdles and long jump at the Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational ... totaled six event wins and 12 top-10 finishes during the indoor season … named to Academic All-Summit League team.

Outdoor Track & Field
Summit League champion in the 100-meter hurdles for second-straight year with a time of 13.76 seconds … one of USD’s 11 Summit League champions … also earned all-Summit League honors in the 4x100-meter relay, high jump and 400-meter hurdles … took second in the 4x100 relay (45.87), third in the high jump (5-7), third in the 400 hurdles (1:03.03), fourth in the 4x400 relay (3:55.90) and seventh in the long jump (19-0 ½) … the 4x100 relay’s mark broke the South Dakota program record … broke the South Dakota program record in the 100 hurdles with a time of 13.54 seconds at the USD vs. SDSU Dual … also broke the Lillibridge Track Complex and meet record with the clocking … qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary in the 100-meter hurdles and finished 41st … cleared an outdoor best of 5-7 in the high jump at the Summit meet to rank sixth on USD’s all-time charts … also moved to 10th on USD’s all-time charts in the long jump with a leap of 19-0 ½ at the Summit meet … notched a season best of 1:00.42 at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays … victorious in the 100 hurdles at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays, USD vs. SDSU Dual and USD Twilight … added victories in the 400 hurdles at the Texas State Bobcat Invitational and USD vs. SDSU Dual ... placed sixth in the 400 hurdles at the Drake Relays in 1:00.99 … member of winning 4x100-meter relay at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays, USD vs. SDSU Dual and USD Twilight … tallied five individual event wins and 11 top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll.

2015-16
Indoor Track & Field
Summit League Track Championship MVP … captured Summit League titles in the pentathlon and the 60-meter hurdles … broke school records in both events at the meet, clocking 8.64 seconds in the 60 hurdles final and scoring 3,890 points in the pentathlon … won the 60 hurdles at the Dakota Realty Alumni Meet and the Jim Emmerich Invitational … finished runner-up in the pentathlon at the Jack Johnson Classic with 3,817 points … cleared a career best height of 5-8 ¾ in the high jump of the pentathlon at the Jack Johnson Classic to rank third in program history … leaped 18-6 for a career best in the long jump during the Summit pentathlon to rank 10th in program history … posted 16 top-10 finishes during the season.
 
Outdoor Track & Field
Victorious in the 100 hurdles in 13.88 seconds at the Summit League Championships … scored a league-high 27 ¾ points at the Summit League Championships with a runner-up performance in the 400 hurdles and fourth place in the long jump … clocked a season best 59.64 seconds for 12th in the 400 hurdles at the Drake Relays … captured the 100 hurdles, 400 hurdles and 4x400 relay at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … finished runner-up in the 400 hurdles in 1:00.72 at the Kansas Relays … scored 5,035 points in the heptathlon at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays … moved to second in the 400 hurdles, third in the 100 hurdles and fifth in the heptathlon in program record books … posted 21 top-10 finishes during the season … made the Summit League honor roll ... named to the Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence.

2014-15
Indoor Track & Field
Summit League Newcomer of the Championship … earned all-league honors with runner-up finishes in the pentathlon with a season best 3,573 points, 60 hurdles at 8.95 seconds and 4x400 relay at the Summit League Championships … notched a season best 8.94 for 60 hurdles in the preliminaries of the league meet … won the 600 meters in 1:37.70 and the long jump with a mark of 17-8 ¼ at the Dakota Realty Alumni meet … finished runner-up in the 600 meters with a season best time of 1:35.86 at the SDSU Jim Emmerich Invitational … recorded a season best 57.21 seconds for 400 meters at the SDSU Indoor Classic … took sixth in the pentathlon with a score of 3,407 at the Jack Johnson Classic … ranks third in the pentathlon (3,573), fifth in the 4x400 relay (3:46.88) and ninth in the 60 hurdles (8.94) in school history.

Outdoor Track & Field
Summit League Newcomer of the Championship … earned all-league honors with runner-up finish in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.61, placed second in the 400 hurdles by clocking 1:00.64, took fourth in the long jump with a mark of 18-5 ¾ and ran a leg of the runner-up 4x400 relay at the Summit League Championships … won the 100 hurdles in 14.78 seconds at the Dakota Duals and the Mt. Marty Twilight … ran a leg of the winning 4x400 relay at the Dakota Duals and Howard Wood Dakota Relays … ran a leg of the school record 4x200 relay in 1:37.91 that took fourth at the Drake Relays … finished runner-up with a season best 1:00.62 for 400 hurdles at the Howard Wood Dakota Relays … also finished runner-up in the 400 hurdles at the CSULA Twilight Open and in the long jump at the Dakota Duals … ranks first in the 4x200 relay (1:37.91), second in the 4x400 relay (3:42.57) and third in the 400 hurdles (1:00.62) in school history ... named to the Summit League honor roll.

Prep
Holds a personal best of 4,521 points in the heptathlon...won the heptathlon at the girl's championships in Jamaica.

Personal
Daughter of Winsome Kerr-Cannigan and Joshua Cannigan ...criminal justice major with a minor in psychology.

Historical Player Information

  • 2014-15Freshman

    Hurdles
  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Hurdles
  • 2016-17Junior

    Hurdles
  • 2017-18Senior

    Hurdles