After great deliberation in 2012 by the NCAA clearing house, Cherry was granted two more years of eligibility to compete indoors because he had not competed at the NCAA championships until 2011. Other SEC schools attempted to form a petition for Cherry not to compete at the 2013 NCAA championships due to eligibility reasons, and the fact that the week prior he competed at the 2013 USA indoor championships and took the gold medal at the 2013 USA Indoor championships running a USA leading time of 6.49, just one hundredths of a second off the world's fastest time in 2013. Despite the petition he went on and then competed at the 2013 NCAA indoor championships the following weekend, and was crowned the 2013 NCAA 60 Indoor Champion. Cherry made his name in collegiate history by being the first man in history technically to ever win the USA Indoor Championships and the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 60 m in the same year since the metric system converted yards to meters. He was also the first to double in an event since the year of 1995. His 6.49 also is the fastest performance in collegiate since the year 2001, and marks the sixth fastest time in college history in the 60 m. Still having another attempt to compete indoors for Mississippi State, Cherry signed with the Asics America in California shortly after his indoor season in June 2013 (2013-2015). He was the only American based Asics signed Professional sprinter since Tim Montgomery.