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CAREER BESTS
600-meter run 1:20.43 800-meter run 1:49.69
2010 (JUNIOR)
Top Boilermaker in the 800-meter run; ran best time of the year at the Big Ten Championships (5/16) with a mark of 1:49.69; placed seventh at the Outdoor Big Ten Championships (5/16); part of top Boilermaker 4x400-meter relay team; named Academic All-Big Ten.
BEFORE PURDUE
Attended the U.S. Naval Academy as a freshman, where he took third place in the 500-meter run and ran on the third-place distance medley relay at the 2008 Patriot League Championships.
HIGH SCHOOL
Earned a pair of varsity track and field letters at Plymouth High School; two-time Indiana State High School Championship qualifier in the 800-meter run, placing fifth as a senior, good for all-state honors; also ran on the 9th-place 4x400-meter relay squad at the state championships; three-time all-state honoree in tennis and played on the 2007 Indiana State 3A Championship team.
PERSONAL
Jacob Daniel Palmer was born June 10, 1988, in Plymouth, Ind.; is the son of Curtis and Deborah Palmer; has two sisters, Vicki and Addie; enjoys music, playing the guitar and ukulele, and playing basketball; majoring in biology.