Ocean City senior Sophia Curtis earned All-America honors for the 3rd time Sunday with a 4th-place finish in the triple jump at Boston Nationals at the TRACK.
Curtis jumped 40-1 ½ on her 2nd attempt, her 8th lifetime meet over 40 feet and 3rd indoors.
She added a 2nd 40-foot jump on her final attempt, going 40-0 ½. She also had jumps of 39-10 ¾ and 39-0 ¼.
Canadian Asia Phillips – the Pan Am Under-20 champ last spring – won the event with a meet-record 42-10 ¾ and had three other jumps over the previous meet record of 42-0 ½ set last year by Juliette Laracuente-Huebner of Highland High in Marengo, Ohio.
The Virginia Tech-bound Curtis jumped 41-3 ¼ to place 3rd last year at Boston Nationals. She didn’t triple jump at West Philly Nationals last spring but she did run the 400-meter hurdles and placed 6th in 1:01.67.
Curtis has indoor PRs of 8.33 in the hurdles, 57.80 in the 400 and 41-3 ¼ in the triple jump and outdoor PRs of 17-8 ½ in the long jump, 40-10 ¼ in the triple, 15.02 in the hurdles, 56.04 in the 400 and 1:00.42 in the intermediates.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 