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| Born | 6 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long jump, High jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 6.90m (Eugene, 2025) High jump: 1.90m (Eugene, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Alyssa Jones (born 6 February 2004) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the long jump and the high jump. She was a gold medalist in the long jump at the 2025 NACAC Championships. [1]
While attending Robert Morgan Senior High School she competed for Miami Southridge Senior High School in Florida in track and field. She won four events at the Florida state high school track and field championships in 2022, including the 100 metres and 200 metres, retaining her title in the high jump setting - new Florida state high school record in the long jump (6.38 metres). [2] [3] [4] She won the long jump and finished second in the high jump at the New Balance National Championships on 19 June 2022. She then attended Stanford University. [5]
Competing as a Stanford Cardinal she had a fourth place finish in the long jump at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 2023. [6] She jumped 6.86 metres to finish runner-up behind Ackelia Smith in the long jump at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships in Austin, Texas in June 2023. [7] Later that summer, she won the USATF U20 Championships long jump title. [8]
She placed third in the long jump at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2024. [9] She jumped 6.64 metres to finish third behind Ackelia Smith and Claire Bryant in the long jump at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024. [10]
She placed third in the long jump at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach in March 2025. [11] She placed second in the long jump at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships on 12 June. [12] [13] Two days later she jumped 1.90 meters to place fourth in the high jump at the championships. [14]
She jumped a personal best 6.90 metres to finish fourth in the long jump at the 2025 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with the same distance as the third placed jumper Quanesha Burks but placed lower on their secondary marks. [15] She also jumped 1.80 metres to place seventh in the high jump at the championships. [16]
She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2025 NACAC Championships in The Bahamas on 15 August 2025, with a jump of 6.74 metres (+0.2). [17] [18]
