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EUGENE — Oregon Geese junior Jaida Ross is the 2024 NCAA champion within the ladies’s shot put.
Ross, the NCAA record-holder within the occasion, threw the shot 64 ft, two and one-half inches Thursday night time to safe her first nationwide title. Beforehand on the Pac-12 Championships, she turned the primary girl in collegiate historical past to surpass 20 meters (65.62 ft) and simply the seventh girl in American historical past to take action.
Ross stated the strain was palpable coming into Thursday’s championship occasion.
“I positively felt the eye,” Ross stated. “I used it for a constructive as a lot as I might. … I used it as motivation to throw it so far as I can every throw.”
A graduate of North Medford Excessive College, the place she was a two-time state champion within the shot put, Ross was cheered on by a slew of relations within the stands who made the journey up I-5 to Hayward Area.
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“This implies the world to me,” Ross stated, gesturing to her NCAA championship trophy. “I’ve my North Medford coaches right here … So, to try this in entrance of them is superb. They only instructed me that the one different NCAA champion from North Medford was Dick Fosbury. I’m tremendous pleased with this.”
Ross appears forward to the discus occasion on Saturday, aiming to safe extra factors for the Geese as they pursue a staff nationwide title on the ladies’s facet. She is preliminarily ranked eighth within the occasion with a season-best throw of 196 ft.
After the NCAA championships wrap up, Ross will put together for the U.S. Olympic trials later this month in Eugene.
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— Ryan Clarke covers the Oregon Geese and Massive Ten Convention for The Oregonian and co-hosts the Soccer Made in Portland and Geese Confidential podcasts. He could be reached at rclarke@oregonian.com or @RyanTClarke.
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