Kansas State's Scott Sellers Wins Big-12 Indoor Title (2.29m)

Kansas State junior Scott Sellers, the reigning NCAA outdoor champion, is making a terrific push to win his first indoor title next month after earning his first career Big 12 indoor title on Saturday, and the second such honor of his career.

Sellers, the national prep indoor record holder at 7 feet 5.25 inches (2.26m), set a new school record of 7-feet-6 (2.29m) in adding a quarter-inch to the record he set at the ISU Classic last season.

Sellers narrowly missed his third and final attempt at a would be personal best of 7-7.25 (2.33m), but was excited to add an indoor conference title to the won he won last spring.

“It feels good to win another title and my first indoor,” Sellers is quoted as stating on the K-State website (link).

“It wasn’t feeling good early on in the competition. I was all over early and I’d fix one thing and something else would go wrong. But coach Rovelto and I made some adjustments.”

Sellers, who cleared 7-2.50 (2.19m) to finish ninth at his first NCAA competition two years ago, and improved one inch and six spots last season (7-3.50/2.22m), is now the second-best jumper in the United States this season behind IAAF World Championships qualifier Jesse Williams.

Sellers has high ambitions this season following the indoor campaign and defending his national outdoor title: He plans on making a go at the Olympic team heading for Beijing.

By all accounts, Sellers has as good a shot at not just peaking and making the U.S. team, but winning his first national senior title as well.

Sellers was a much-discussed prep star, having set the sophomore national record of 7-feet-2 (2.18m) during 2003 indoor season—and clearing 7-3.25 (2.21m) during the outdoor season. He also established the national junior class record in 2004, clearing 7-5.25 (2.26m).