Florida’s Moore becomes only female athlete in world indoor history to boast 7-meter long jump and 15-meter triple jump, Texas’ Alfred delivers spectacular 6.94 and 22.01 sprint double, with Georgia’s Garland challenging Eaton’s all-time global heptathlon mark by accumulating 6,639 points

By Erik Boal, DyeStat Editor

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Jasmine Moore continued to show why she is already the greatest combination jumper in American history at age 21 at the NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships.

Julien Alfred, 21, and Kyle Garland, 22, were both ecstatic about their performances at the Albuquerque Convention Center, which established them as the No. 2 competitors in global indoor history, and gave them both significant motivation to continue to chase the legends in their respective events.

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Moore, a Florida junior, became the only female competitor in the world to boast a 15-meter triple jump and 7-meter long jump indoors, achieving the marks less than 24 hours apart to repeat as champion in both events.

Moore surpassed her previous collegiate indoor triple jump record five times in her series Saturday, capped by a sixth-round performance of 49-7.25 (15.12m) to break the American indoor record and elevate to the No. 5 all-time global performer.

Moore opened her long jump competition Friday with a collegiate indoor record 23-0.75 (7.03m) to equal the No. 3 athlete in American indoor history and match the No. 12 all-time global indoor performer.

Ukraine’s Inessa Kravets, along with Russian athletes Tatyana Lebdeva and Yolanda Chen are the only other horizontal jumpers in history with 7-meter and 15-meter credentials on their resumes, all producing the marks outdoors.

Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela, the indoor and outdoor triple jump world record holder, had a 23-10.25 (7.27m) long jump in 2021 in Spain nullified because she was wearing shoes that were not eligible for the competition.

Moore’s dynamic double, which helped her become the only female collegiate athlete in Division 1 indoor history to sweep the long jump and triple jump in consecutive years, wasn’t enough to elevate Florida to a repeat team title, as the Gators finished third with 45 points.

Neither was the sensational sprinting of Alfred, which helped Texas place second with 60 points, just shy of women’s team champion Arkansas, which prevailed in the 4x400-meter relay in a world all-time indoor performance of 3:21.75 ahead of the Longhorns in 3:25.67 to secure the championship with 64 points.

But Alfred delivered the greatest all-time collegiate indoor sprint double, lowering her own 60-meter dash record to 6.94 seconds and then eclipsing the 200-meter mark achieved last year by Kentucky’s Abby Steiner by running 22.01, all less than an hour apart, to become the first female athlete to secure both titles in the same year since Auburn’s Kerron Stewart in 2007.

Alfred, representing Saint Lucia, surpassed Steiner’s 22.09 performance at last year’s Southeastern Conference Championships to elevate to No. 2 in global indoor history, trailing only the 1993 world record of 21.87 by Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey.

Alfred, who won the 100-meter dash title at the Division 1 outdoor final in June, matched American Aleia Hobbs as the No. 2 all-time global indoor competitor in the 60, both trailing Russia’s Irina Privalova and her 1993 and 1995 performances of 6.92.

Ottey supported her 21.87 effort in France with a 7.01 in the 60 at the same meet.

Privalova’s best double came in 1995 in France, running 6.94 and 22.10 at the same event.

Garland took down one Ashton Eaton record in the men’s heptathlon and nearly broke the all-time world mark established by the former Oregon star to capture his first NCAA championship with 6,639 points.

Garland, who produced the second-highest opening-day total in global indoor history with 3,773 points, eclipsed Eaton’s 2010 collegiate record of 6,499 points, as did Arkansas’ Ayden Owens-Delerme, with last year’s champion producing a 6,518-point effort.

Garland nearly missed Eaton’s 2012 standard of 6,645 points achieved in Turkey, with he and Owens-Delerme ascending to the Nos. 2 and 3 all-time global indoor competitors. Garland boasts the No. 2 performance in world indoor history, with Owens-Delerme at No. 5, leading seven athletes with 6,000-point efforts in the two-day competition.

Garland became the third heptathlon champion for Georgia, joining Devon Williams in 2017 and Karel Tilga in 2021, helping Georgia finish second overall with 40 points, as Arkansas captured the men’s team title with 63 points.

Garland received strong support from teammates Matthew Boling and Elija Godwin, who both captured individual titles, in addition to Georgia placing second in the 4x400 relay at 3:03.10, with Arkansas emerging victorious in 3:02.09.

Boling produced a world-leading 200-meter performance of 20.12 to win his second title in the event in three years.

Godwin overcame food poisoning to equal his own fastest 400 effort in the world this year by clocking 44.75 to secure the first championship in the event for the Bulldogs since Torrin Lawrence in 2010.

Terrence Jones won the first men’s 60-meter dash title for Texas Tech by clocking 6.46, contributing to the Red Raiders placing fifth with 29 points.

Oklahoma State’s Fouad Messaoudi followed his championship in the distance medley relay Friday by becoming the first male athlete in program history to win the 3,000-meter crown, edging Northern Arizona’s Drew Bosley by a 7:48.10 to 7:48.34 margin.

Washington’s Luke Houser triumphed in the men’s mile in 4:03.33, holding off Drake’s Isaac Basten in 4:03.36.

The Huskies established an NCAA record with four athletes earning All-America first-team honors in the mile, as Joe Waskom (4:03.73) finished fourth, Nathan Green (4:03.86) was fifth and Brian Fay (4:05.07) earned eighth, helping the Huskies finish fourth overall with 31 points, trailing Arkansas, Georgia and third-place Florida at 34 points.

Washington men’s coach Andy Powell had guided the 2015 Oregon team that produced three All-America first-team competitors.

Texas’ Yusuf Bizimana, representing England, was elevated to the top of the podium following the 800-meter final after Jamaican athlete Navasky Anderson of Mississippi State was disqualified for impeding the path of his competitor in the final stretch.

Anderson had run 1:45.90 prior to the disqualification, but Bizimana clocked 1:46.02 to capture the first indoor 800 crown for the Longhorns since Jacob Hernandez in 2009. Crayton Carrozza was second for Texas in 1:46.78.

Arizona’s Jordan Geist produced an opening-round mark of 69-4.75 (21.15m) and his performance held up for the remainder of the competition to secure the first men’s indoor shot put title in program history.

Clemson’s Giano Roberts prevailed in the 60-meter hurdles final in a personal-best 7.55, winning the first men’s indoor title in any event for the Tigers since 2011.

South Florida’s Romaine Beckford, a Jamaican athlete who placed 15th in last year’s high jump final at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Alabama, cleared 7-4.25 (2.24m) on his first attempt to outlast reigning champion Vernon Turner of Oklahoma at 7-3 (2.21m).

Beckford became the first South Florida athlete to capture an NCAA indoor championship in any event.

Texas A&M standout Lamara Distin, the reigning Commonwealth Games gold medalist representing Jamaica, repeated as women’s high jump champion with a first-attempt clearance at 6-3.25 (1.91m).

Distin became the first female athlete to secure back-to-back indoor high jump titles since Georgia’s Leontia Kallenou in 2014-15.

Kansas’ Rylee Anderson, Georgia’s Elena Kulichenko and Nebraska’s Jenna Rogers all cleared 6-2 (1.88m) on their third attempts to take the next three spots behind Distin.

Adelaide Aquilla concluded her outstanding Ohio State career in memorable fashion, rallying to win the shot put championship on her final attempt with a mark of 63-3.25 (19.28m) to elevate to the No. 4 all-time collegiate indoor competitor.

Aquila, who also won the 2021 indoor crown in Arkansas along with back-to-back outdoor championships, surpassed the 62-8.75 (19.12m) effort of Nebraska’s Axelina Johansson, the Swedish record holder and No. 3 performer in collegiate indoor history at 63-4 (19.30m).

Oregon’s Jorinde Van Klinken, the collegiate indoor record holder and reigning champion representing The Netherlands, secured sixth at 58-3.75 (17.77m).

North Carolina State junior Katelyn Tuohy became the first female athlete to win both the 3,000 and 5,000 titles in the same year at the Division 1 final since Missouri’s Karissa Schweizer in 2018.

Tuohy followed her 5,000 victory Friday by being patient early in the 3,000, allowing defending champion Taylor Roe of Oklahoma State to lead early, before taking control in the final kilometer to triumph in 9:10.07 and extend her winning streak against collegiate competitors to 14 consecutive races.

Olivia Markezich, who helped Notre Dame finish third Friday in the distance medley relay, covered the final lap in 30.99 to place second in 9:13.01, surging ahead of Roe (9:13.22).

Three of the top four all-time collegiate indoor performers squared off in the 800 final and the showdown didn’t disappoint, with Roisin Willis holding off Stanford teammate Juliette Whittaker to emerge victorious in 1:59.93, the No. 2 performance in NCAA indoor history.

Willis won her first high school national indoor title in 2019, nearly three years to the day, securing victory March 10 at The Armory in New York.

Whittaker was second in 2:00.05, with LSU’s Michaela Rose taking third in 2:00.85. The trio has now combined to produce five of the top six performances in collegiate indoor history, trailing only the 2021 record of 1:58.40 established by Texas A&M’s Athing Mu.

Along with contributing to a distance medley relay victory Friday, Willis and Whittaker helped Stanford place fourth overall with 33 points.

Illinois’ Olivia Howell delivered a 31.17 split in the final lap of the mile, moving wide coming off the final curve to edge Arkansas’ Lauren Gregory by a 4:34.00 to 4:34.24 margin in a fantastic finish.

Howell, who finished fifth last year, captured the first women’s indoor title in any event for Illinois since 2010.

Although she didn’t win an individual championship, Bahamian record holder and Tennessee graduate student-athlete Charisma Taylor enjoyed one of the most impressive meets in Division 1 indoor finals history.

Taylor produced a lifetime-best 48-10 (14.88m) in the triple jump to place second behind Moore, a mark more than a foot better than the previous collegiate indoor record, as the top 13 competitors all achieved personal-best performances.

Taylor also took third in the 60-meter hurdles final in 7.93, trailing only the top two competitors in NCAA indoor history, as Arkansas’ Ackera Nugent edged Kentucky’s Masai Russell by a 7.73 to 7.75 margin. Taylor had run a personal-best 7.91 in Friday’s semifinals.

Taylor secured a fifth-place finish in the long jump final Friday with a lifetime-best leap of 21-9.50 (6.64m).

Georgia showcased the top two freshman sprinters in the country, with Kaila Jackson placing second behind Alfred in the 60-meter final in 7.08 and Autumn Wilson finishing fourth in 7.12. Jackson equaled the World Under-20 indoor record by running 7.07 in the semifinals.

Wilson took third in the 200 final in 22.45, trailing Alfred and Nigerian star Favour Ofili of LSU (22.20), with Jackson earning eighth in 22.84. Wilson ran 22.42 in the semifinals to equal the No. 6 American all-time indoor competitor and Jackson ran a personal-best 22.69 to advance to the final to help the Bulldogs finish fifth overall with 31 points.