Jasmine Jones Leads USC To 10th-Place Tie At 2024 NCAA Outdoor T&F Championships

Track & Field | June 08, 2024

Jasmine Jones won the 400m hurdles title with a school and meet-record time and placed fourth in the 100m hurdles to lead the USC women to a 10th-place tie at 2024 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. today (June 8). 

The USC women scored all 25 of their points on the final day to tie for 10^th and it was the highest finish by the Trojans since winning the 2021 team title.  The Trojan women also won the 2018 team title and have finished in the top 10 at the NCAA Championships in 17 of the last 26 seasons.

• The senior Jasmine Jones won the women’s 400m hurdles title with a school-record and NCAA meet-record time of 53.15, passing two runners in the final 80 meters.  She joins Natasha Danvers (2000) and Anna Cockrell (2019 and 2021) as Trojans to bring home the NCAA title in the 400m hurdles. Jones’ time is second all-time by a college runner, trailing only Sydney McLaughlin’s 52.75 run in 2018, and she now ranks fourth among 400m hurdles runners in the world this season.  Jones earned USC 10 points in the team competition and earned first-team All-America honors.
• Jones began her day by placing fourth with a PR of 12.64 (-0.5) in the 100m hurdles final.  Also, junior Jalaysiya Smith placed eighth in the 100m hurdles with a time of 12.96 (-0.5).   Jones bettered her fourth-place standing on USC’s all-time list, as her previous best of 12.66 was set in placing second in the 2022 NCAA final.  Jones and Smith both earned first-team All-America honors and earned the Trojans their first six points at the NCAA Championships.  It was the first time USC had two hurdlers score in the 100m hurdles at the NCAA Championships since 2019 when Chanel Brissett (2^nd) and Anna Cockrell (5^th) both scored.
• Senior Jan’Taijah Jones ran a season-best time of 50.77 to place seventh in the 400m final.  Jones earned first-team All-America honors, after just missing out last season by placing ninth in the event.  Jones also earned the USC women another two points in the team competition.
• Sophomore Jassani Carter placed fifth in the 200m final with a time of 22.66 (+1.0) to earn the Trojans four more points.  Her fifth-place finish in the 200m was the highest by a Trojan woman since TeeTee Terry also placed fifth in…