SAN ANTONIO — Oreoluwa Adamson will represent UTSA at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships on Friday, March 10, at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Adamson qualified for the national field in the women's long jump and will take the stage at 5 p.m. Central time on the first day of the two-day meet. A native of London, England, she enters the meet with the 11th-best jump in the 16-person field after leaping to a school-record mark of 6.46 meters (21-2.5) to win the Conference USA crown last month.
Adamson has her sights set on becoming the program's 15th female All-American and the third to earn those honors in the long jump. Last year, Ingeborg Gruenwald collected second-team All-America accolades after finishing 13th with a measurement of 6.24m (20-5.75) in Birmingham, Alabama. Tameka Roberts was a three-time All-American in the long jump, placing fifth at the 1995 NCAA Outdoor and 11th the following year to go with a sixth-place leap of 6.21m (20-4.5) at the 1996 NCAA Indoor.
Last month at the C-USA Indoor, Adamson flew past UTSA's long jump standard in winning her first career conference gold medal. She leaped 6.46m (21-2.5) on her first attempt of the day to break the previous UTSA mark of 6.42m set by Gruenwald.
Less than 24 hours after striking gold in the long jump, Adamson secured the C-USA silver medal in the triple jump, touching the sand at a personal-best distance of 12.80m (42-0) to become the program's No. 2 all-time performer in the event.
This will mark Adamson's second visit to Albuquerque, as she competed in both horizontal jumps at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational on Jan. 21. She placed third in the triple jump with a mark of 12.65m (41-6) and took fourth in the long jump with a leap of 6.07m (19-11).
A two-time NCAA West Preliminary Round qualifier outdoors, Adamson opened the 2023 indoor campaign by winning the long jump with a 6.10m (20-0.25) effort at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational on Jan. 13. After posting a pair of top-four finishes in Albuquerque, she earned runner-up honors in the long jump with a 6.05m (19-10.25) measurement and bronze in the triple (12.71m/41-8.5) at the Scarlet Knights Open on Feb. 3-4 in New York City.
UTSA has collected a total of 27 All-America certificates on the women's side, including eight at an NCAA Indoor Championships. Four of those honors have come since 2019, as Danielle Spence was a second-team All-American in the triple jump that year and again last June at the NCAA Outdoor. In addition to Gruenwald's second-team accolade a year ago, Maia Campbell earned honorable mention All-America plaudits in the shot put at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor.
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