As you've likely heard, we don't have any live-action contests to cover at LetsGoPeay.com right now. What we do have is free time; oodles and oodles of free time. Enough free time to swap oodles of emails with various people who would know to create a snapshot of the best athletes in Austin Peay track and field history. Up next is the jumps standout who revolutionized the events at Austin Peay.

Sherlonda Johnson had no trouble winning. She earned five gold medals for Austin Peay over the years, four in the long jump and once in the 55-meter dash. And if she attempted it, she wound up being pretty good at it—naturally a jumper, she actually held the 55-meter record for nearly a decade following her graduation.

Johnson was the 2006 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Field Athlete of the Year and was the OVC Female Athlete of the Championship after winning the gold medal in both the 55-meter dash and long jump while adding a sixth-place finish in the triple jump – the coda to her outstanding indoor career. But by then she'd already made her mark as one of the region's top long jumpers, appearing in three straight NCAA Outdoor Mideast Regionals and finishing 16^th as a senior in her final meet as a Gov. 

In her final OVC Outdoor Championship appearance in 2006, Johnson showed of her versatility, placing in the top-four in four events. She won the long jump, was second in the 100-meter dash and fourth in both the 200-meter dash and the triple jump and making her case as one of the best true "two-way" athletes—excelling on the track and in the field—in Austin Peay history.

A native of Fort Hood, Texas, Johnson was Austin Peay's Most Outstanding Female Athlete as a junior and a senior. She also excelled in the classroom as well, twice earning the Wilma Rudolph Memorial Scholarship.