Julien Alfred wins 100, 200 as Texas women take NCAA outdoor championship

Julien Alfred won the 100 meters, the 200 and ran the opening leg of the 4x100 meter relay for the Texas women and the Longhorns won fifth team title in program history Saturday night at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in Austin. Alfred won the 100 meters with a wind-aided time of 10.72 seconds to become just the sixth woman in NCAA history to win the event in back-to-back years — the first at Texas — and ran the fastest all-conditions mark in collegiate history to win the 200 in 21.73 and become the first woman since 2016 to win both the 100 and 200 and just the third in the last 25 years.

Texas finished with 83 points (a program record at the outdoor championships), 32 more than second-place Florida. Arkansas finished third with 46.

The Longhorns’ 4x100 meter relay team of Alfred, Ezinne Abba, Rhasidat Adeleke and Kevona Davis defended its 2022 title in 41.60, just 0.05 seconds off its NCAA record set Thursday in the semifinals. The win made Alfred the fifth woman in NCAA history, and the first since Texas’ Carlette Guidry in 1991, to sweep the three events.

Florida’s Jasmine Moore set the collegiate record to win the triple jump with a leap of 48 feet, 6 inches and beat out Ackelia Smith, who had a personal best of 47 feet, 8½ inches for the Longhorns.

Jorinde Van Klinken of Oregon won her third straight discus title and set a meet record with a throw of 215 feet.

Charity Griffith took first in the high jump with a personal best 6 feet, 4 inches to win Ball State’s first national title since 1999. Harvard’s Maia Ramsden went from fifth place to first on the final lap to win the 1,500 meters in 4:08.60 and become the third Ivy League athlete to win a title at the outdoor championships. Freshman Pippi Lotta Enok of Oklahoma won the high jump (5 feet, 8¾ inches) and javelin (153 feet) to win the heptathlon title with a school record 6,165 points.