Moore Wins Seventh NCAA Title With 48-6 In Triple Jump Final

By David Woods for DyeStat

Photo by Bert Richardson

AUSTIN, Texas – One jump. One record, and another near-record.

One measure of how historic Jasmine Moore has performed in the jumps is she asserted it could have – should have – been more.

She came home to her native Texas and will return to Florida with a collegiate record and seven NCAA Division 1 championships in track and field.

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Moore leaped 48 feet, 6 inches (14.78 meters) in the second round of the triple jump to break the outdoor collegiate record.

She needed a distance that far, too, because Texas sophomore Ackelia Smith went 47-8.50 (14.54m). Only Moore and former record-holder Keturah Orji of Georgia (47-11.75/14.62m) have jumped farther in college.

Smith won Thursday’s long jump, defeating Moore. The defending champion finished third.

“That was really tough for me, so just honestly being in the right mindset coming in today was the big thing,” Moore said. “I just needed to have confidence in the whole entire competition, so I was just trying my best to stay calm.”

In this same stadium, she was 8-for-8 in the horizontal jumps at UIL state meets for Mansfield Lake Ridge High.

Moore swept long and triple jumps indoors in 2022-23. Only middle-distance runner Suzy Favor of Wisconsin, with nine NCAA titles from 1987-90, and Orji, with eight from 2015-18, have won more. Orji’s are all in the horizontal jumps, as are Moore’s.

Moore became the first female athlete to repeat in the outdoor triple jump since Orji won four in a row from 2015-18.

“Keturah was someone I looked up to so much,” said Moore, who transferred from Georgia after one season there. “So, to finally knock that down and finally get the school record in the triple jump, that’s been tough. Just lots of prayer and confidence to get to today.”

She said she had jumped “pain free” all season.

Her outdoor record ranks No. 2 in the world this year behind Cuba’s Leyanis Perez (48-8.25/14.84m). Moore jumped farther – 49-7.25 (15.12m) – in setting a collegiate record in March’s NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships at Albuquerque, N.M.

She said she would compete in both jumps in next month’s USATF Championships at Eugene, Ore. Moore ranks sixth in the world in the long jump at 22-7 (6.88m).

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