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| Born | 7 April 2003 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 8.16m (Virginia Beach, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Kelsey Daniel (born 7 April 2003) is a long jumper from Trinidad and Tobago. He won the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships. [1]
He was brought up in Parlatuvier, Tobago and started long jump when he was ten years-old. He later also tried triple jump, but returned to the long jump. His cousin Tyriq Horsford is also a track and field athlete who competes internationally. [2]
He set a personal best with a 7.39m jump at the NAAATT Track and Field Series in April 2021. He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games, with a jump of 7.90 metres. [3] His cousin Tyriq Horsford won silver on the same day in the javelin. [4]
He set a Trinidad and Tobago national indoor record of 7.99 metres for the long jump in 2023. In January 2025, at the Arkansas Invitational men’s long jump he set a new record of 8.03 metres to break his own T&T indoor record. [5] [6]
Competing for the University of Texas at Austin, he won the NCAA Championship indoor long jump title on 14 March 2025 in Virginia Beach. [7] His jump of 8.16 metres was a facility record and he became the first male member of the Texas Longhorns to win an NCAA long jump title. [8]
