Tionna Tobias leaped 20-7 ½ and placed 5th in the long jump Thursday evening at the Ed Murphey Track Classic, a Puma American Track League event in Memphis.
Tobias, a Winslow graduate who recently finished her senior year at Iowa, was competing for the first time since the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Tobias hit 20-6 ¾ on her first jump and 20-7 ½ on her 2nd. She also had a 20-4 ¾ jump on her 3rd jump.
This was one of Tobias’s better results over this past year. She jumped a PR 21-4 ¼ in Gainesville in March.
Also Thursday night in Memphis, Delsea graduate Josh Awotunde threw 66-8 ¼ and took 3rd in the men’s shot put, and Cherokee graduate Jessica Woodard threw 59-1 ½ and placed 4th in the women’s shot put.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 