11 Trojans Advance To Semifinals, 2 To Finals At 2024 U.S. Olympic T&F Team Trials

Track & Field | June 27, 2024

Current Trojans Jasmine Jones, Jassani Carter, Madison Whyte and Max Thomas led 11 Trojans advancing to event semifinals during the fifth day of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. today (June 27).  Also, Earnest Sears III in the men’s high jump and Madisen Richards in the women’s long jump advanced to finals.

• Senior Jasmine Jones won her women’s 400m hurdles first-round heat with a time of 55.54 to automatically advance to the semifinal in the event on Saturday at 5:41 p.m.  Anna Cockrell (USC, 2021) won her heat with a time of 54.71 and Dalilah Muhammad (USC, 2012) took second in her heat with a time of 55.51 to both automatically advance.  Cockrell was second, Muhammad fifth and Jones sixth on time advancing to the semifinal.
• All four Trojan women in the 200m first round advanced to Friday’s event semifinal at 7:06 p.m.  Freshman Madison Whyte went first and she had a time of 22.93 (+0.5) to finish fifth in her heat and automatically advance, as the top five in each heat would move on.  Sophomore Jassani Carter was next and had a time of 22.85 (+0.2) fourth in her heat to automatically advance.  TeeTee Terry (USC, 2021) had a time of 22.71 (+0.1) to finish fourth in the final heat and Caisja Chandler (USC, 2023) had a time of 23.06 (+0.1) to finish sixth in the same heat, but advanced on time.  Due to scratches, it turned out that all 27 runners advanced to the semifinal and the Trojans’ finish on time in the first round were Terry 10^th, Carter 12^th, Whyte 15^th and Chandler 20^th.
• Sophomore Max Thomas took fourth in his men’s 200m first-round heat with a time of 20.73 (+1.1) to automatically advance to the semifinal.  The men’s 200m semifinal is scheduled for Friday at 7:28 p.m.  Thomas was 20^th on time among the qualifiers to the semifinal.
• Rai Benjamin (USC, 2018) cruised to victory in his men’s 400m hurdles first-round heat with a time of 49.56.  After the five heats were complete, Benjamin advanced third on time to the semifinal on Friday at 6:16 p.m.
• Isaiah Jewett (USC, 2021) and Bobby Poynter (USC, 2023) both advanced to the men’s 800m semifinals on Friday at 6:39 p.m.  The top six in each heat plus the next three fastest times advanced.  Jewett had a time of 1:46.84 to take fourth in his…