PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State’s Alissa Brooks-Johnson won the women’s pentathlon and led a one-two-three Cougar finish Friday during the first day of the Cougar Indoor meet.
Brooks-Johnson, a junior from Doty, Wash., scored a career-best 4,101 points, third-best in school history and currently ranked 12th-best nationally. The 2015 Pac-12 outdoor heptathlon champion opened the five-event competition Friday afternoon with a PR time in the 60m hurdles of 8.81 seconds. She bettered her PR in the high jump by four inches when she cleared the bar at 5-feet, 9 1/4 inches (1.76m), threw the shot put a three-foot PR distance of 39-8 1/2 (12.