High School: Four-year letterwinner in both cross country and track and three-year letterwinner in basketball at Rushville Consolidated High School; four-time sectional champion in cross country; semi-state qualifier in cross country as both a freshman and sophomore and placed 21st in the state as a junior; state qualifier in track as a senior.
Personal: Jacob Riley Laird was born on Sept. 2, 1988, in Shelbyville, Ind.; is the son of Ted and Regina Laird; has two brothers, Nolan and Mitchell, and one sister, Morgan; enjoys basketball; majoring in agribusiness.