Track & Field | June 14, 2024
USC’s Jasmine Jones (Women’s Track Athlete), Quincy Watts (Men’s Head Coach), Joanna Hayes (Women’s Assistant Coach) and Jeff Petersmeyer (Men’s Assistant Coach) all were named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) West Region award-winners today (June 14).
Jones, a senior from Atlanta, Ga., won the NCAA 400m hurdles title and placed fourth in the 100m hurdles to lead USC to a 10th-place tie at the 2024 NCAA Track & Field Championships. Her winning 400m hurdles time of 53.15 shattered the championships’ record, set the USC school record and is the second-fastest time ever in the event by a college athlete. Her time in the 100m hurdles final of 12.64 was also a personal best and bettered her fourth-place standing on USC’s all-time list. Earlier in the year, Jones won the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles titles at the Pac-12 Championships and was named the Pac-12 Women’s Track Athlete of the Year.
Watts, in his third season as Director of Track & Field and Cross Country for USC and 11th with the program, led the Trojan men to a third-place finish at the 2024 NCAA Track & Field Championships, the team’s highest finish since also placing third in 2003. USC also placed second at the Pac-12 T&F Championships, with Johnnie Blockburger being named Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Year and Racquil Broderick named Men’s Freshman of the Year. During the 2024 season, USC male athletes posted 13 school all-time top 10 times or marks.
Hayes, in her eighth year as an assistant coach with USC, guided Jasmine Jones to the NCAA 400m hurdles title and to a fourth-place finish in the 100m hurdles. Jones ran a 53.15 time in the 400m hurdles, the second-fastest collegiate time ever to Olympian and world-record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s 52.75 set ins 2018 with Kentucky. Jalaysiya Smith in the 100m hurdles joined Jones in earning first-team All-America honors and Rae-Anne Serville garnered second-team All-Amerca honors in the 400m hurdles. USC’s hurdlers scored 16 of the Trojans’ 25 points at the 2024 NCAA Championships to help lead the team to a 10th-place tie. Jones also was named Pac-12 Women’s Track Athlete of the Year as she won both the 100m and 400m hurdles titles.
Petersmeyer, in his first season as an assistant coach at USC, guided JC…
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