Early life and college Born to Kevin and Susan Hutson in
Terre Haute, Indiana, she attended
Terre Haute North Vigo High School and took part in
diving,
volleyball and track and field while there. She began to study exercise science at
Indiana State University in 2006 and competed collegiately in the pole vault for the
Indiana State Sycamores. In her freshman year she won both
Missouri Valley Conference titles indoors and outdoors and reached the NCAA Championships. She repeated her regional double in 2008, setting a new personal record of in the process. She was a finalist indoors and outdoors at the NCAA meets and also competed in qualifying at the
2008 United States Olympic Trials. In her final two years at Indiana State she extended her regional undefeated streak and took two consecutive victories at both the
NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and the
NCAA Outdoor Championships. She graduated in 2011 as the school record holder at outdoors and indoors. She also set the Missouri Valley Conference record at . As a result, she was given her first national selection, though she competed in qualifying only at the
2011 World Championships in Athletics while Suhr took fourth. Hutson did not maintain her level of performance in the 2012, having a season's best of for fourth at the USA Indoors before ending up seventh at the
2012 United States Olympic Trials. That June she set an outdoor best of and was runner-up to Suhr at the
2013 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Returning to international competition, she failed to record a valid mark at the
2013 World Championships in Athletics. Hutson competed frequently on the professional circuit in 2014, but her performances declined a little, as she was
third nationally indoors and sixth outdoors. After missing much of the 2015 season, she returned in 2016 and showed returned form with a vault of in May. ==International competitions==