FAYETTEVILLE -- Payton Stumbaugh couldn't believe what she saw on the John McDonnell Field scoreboard Saturday after winning the 100-meter hurdles.
"Right after the race I looked up at the scoreboard, and I was just in shock that I ran that time," said Stumbaugh, an Arkansas sophomore from Springdale Har-Ber High School. "But I finally just trusted myself and ran my race and broke 13 and ran in the 12s."
Stumbaugh ran a school-record 12.83 seconds at the McDonnell Invitational to break the mark of 12.98 set by Elisha Brewer in 1998. The time also surpassed the Olympic qualifying standard of 13 seconds, earning Stumbaugh a spot at the U.