Bragging Point

(One of our youth)

Jared Tackett

Excerpt from News-Press February 23, 2005

Jared Tackett, Junior at Cumberland College, was elected to the homecoming court this fall as a Junior Representative.  He has been named to the Dean's list with a 4.0 grade point average.  He is an officer in the Campus Activity Board, and has his own cartoon section in the school newspaper, The Patriot.  He is also on the track team.  Recently, his application was selected from applications from all over the United States as one of the 40 who will be traveling to Italy to study Architecture and Art through Syracuse University.  He will studying abroad for 8 weeks.  Jared is an Arts and Communications major and plans to pursue a degree in Architecture upon his 2007 graduation from Cumberland College.

Jared is in Italy (June,2005) and sent some pictures

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Excerpt From News-Press April 6, 2005

On March 3, Jared Tackett, 2002 Jenkins High School graduate, ran in his first NAIA Indoor National Championship meet for the Cumberland College Patriots' 400 meter relay team, which Tackett runs second leg,  not only ran away from the competition at the Emory University Track and Field Invitational, they automatically qualified for the NAIA Outdoor National Championships to be held in Louisville from May 26-28.  In addition, the relay team broke the Cumberland College 400 meter relay record with a time of 41.58 seconds, a record that has been standing for twenty-seven years.  This is the second record Tackett holds at Cumberland College.  In February of this year he set the school record in the Pentathlon. 

The Patriots' 1600-meter relay, which Tackett anchored, hit the provisional qualifying mark for nationals and stands just one second away from automatically qualifying.  Tackett, a junior at Cumberland, also has the privilege of being the team captain, something he feels is a testament that hard work and dedication truly pays off.  "...I just want to be a positive influence and serve as an example that if you train hard and believe in yourself and your teammates, great things will happen." 

Congratulations, Jared

You've "come up in the world" a lot since you were five years old--well over six feet!

And now another milestone.

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Jared is in the graduating class of the University of the Cumberlands May 6, 2006. 

Magna Cum Laude; National Dean's List; Academic All-American; Bella Bender-Lipps Art Award; Who's who in colleges and Universities.

In sports:  All-American; Team Captain; Pentathlon Indoor School Record; 2X100 Outdoor School Record; National Champion of Character.

Way to go, Jared!