NCAA CHAMPION: Alabama Sophomore Quanesha Burks Wins NCAA Long Jump
6/11/2015 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field, Cross Country
June 11, 2015
EUGENE, Oregon - University of Alabama sophomore Quanesha Burks posted a personal best by more than two inches on the way to winning the NCAA Long Jump Championship Thursday in Eugene, Oregon at historic Hayward Field with a leap of 22 feet, eight inches.
The top seed coming into the championships, Burks is Alabama's first women's NCAA long jump champion and the Tide's first women's champ in a field event since Beth Mallory won the discus at the 2005 outdoor championships. She is also the first Alabama NCAA women's champion in the jumps since 1989, when Flora Hyacinth won the NCAA indoor triple jump.
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