What a way to burst on to the scene and make your presence known for the 2019-20 season.
Burrows guaranteed his trip automatically for nationals in Birmingham, Ala., in both the pentathlon and high jump at the Plaster Center in Pittsburg, Kan., last year’s host site for the 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships.
The senior finished third overall at the Boo Rogers Combined Events with 5,381 points as he won both the high jump and long jump while finishing second in the 60-meter dash.
He was also third in the 60-meter hurdles and fourth in pole vault.
Burrows had a career best and broke his own conference record height in the high jump, officially clearing 2.19m (7’ 2.25”). He bested his 2.12m recorded at the SVSU Holiday Open last season.
Burrows was also just two points shy of matching the Great Midwest heptathlon points record; Findlay’s Trey Everett had 5,383 during the early part of the 2017 indoor season.
Burrows ranks first in Division II as the lone auto qualifier in high jump and was one of five auto qualifiers in the heptathlon during the first week of the season.
Burrows was an indoor and outdoor NCAA All-American in the high jump for 2018-19.