Sophia Curtis opened her senior season at Ocean City with the No. 7 triple jump performance in the U.S. this year.
Curtis jumped 39-11 on her 4th jump of an outstanding series of jumps to win the U.S. Marine Corps Holiday Classic at the Armory Friday. That’s No. 1 in New Jersey by more than a foot.
Her only superior meet indoors was Boston Nationals this past March, where she had the four best indoor jumps of her life in Boston in March – 39-11 ¼, 40-2, 40-9 and the 41-3 ¼ – the last three all breaking the South Jersey record.
On Friday, she opened with a 38-8 ½ and a 38-9 ½ before hitting her 39-11. She finished with jumps of 38-4, 39-3 and 39-10 ½.
Her six jumps averaged 39-1 ½, better than any other individual jump in the competition. Pryncess Jackson of Highland Springs (Va.) High School placed 2nd with a 38-3 ½.
Curtis last spring won the Meet of Champions in the triple jump, jumped 17-8 ½ in the long jump was a state champ in the intermediates at 1:00.42 and won states in the 400 and also had a PR of 56.04. She has yet to run the 100 hurdles outdoors but she was 4th in the Meet of Champions last year indoor in the 55 hurdles.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 