EUGENE, Ore. – The lone performer on Thursday for the UTSA track & field team at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships delivered on repeating as a First Team All-American in the women’s long jump final at historic Hayward Field. Freshman Ida Breigan garnered the second national honor of her rookie campaign after also collecting accolades at the NCAA’s indoor meet – while also producing the UTSA women’s highest mark in 17 years.
The first-year Roadrunner from Fredrikstad, Norway almost seems like a veteran at this point, securing UTSA’s top performances at both the NCAA’s Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships this season. On Thursday, Breigan temporarily jumped to the top of the leaderboard with her second-attempt leap of 6.40m (21-0). The mark proved enough to both carry her into the final and lock up eighth place and First Team All-American honors.
Breigan’s performance on Thursday marks only the third UTSA First Team All-American honor in the outdoor women’s long jump, the last recorded in 1996 by Hall-of-Famer Tameka Roberts. This also marks the highest a UTSA women’s long jumper has finished at the Outdoor Championships and the highest Roadrunner women’s outdoor finish since Ryanne Dupree was sixth in the heptathlon in 2007.
In early March, Breigan registered her first national honor, finishing sixth at the Indoor Championships with a 6.38m (20-11.25) jump during her first NCAA national event.
Friday will be the third day of the championships and the final day of competition for the Roadrunners. Still on deck is Bridgetown, Barbados junior Jemuel Miller in the men’s triple jump. Miller comes in with a school-record 16.21m (53-2.25) mark for his second NCAA appearance in three years. Miller earned second place at The American Championships on a 16.08m (52-9.25) jump and then was 12th in the NCAA West field in Arkansas. Miller earned All-America honors in the indoor and outdoor triple jump during his debut 2022 campaign, going First Team All-America with a fifth-place indoor finish and adding a Second-Team nod for his 10th-place finish outdoors. The triple jump is slated for 6:20 p.m. PT (8:20 p.m. CT). Miller is scheduled as the 12th and final jumper in the first flight.
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