Winslow rising junior Ma’Syiah Brawner won the triple jump Thursday at the AAU National Club Championships in Memphis.
Brawner jumped 39-1 ½ on her final attempt to snag the lead after trailing the entire competition.
Brawner opened with two fouls and facing early elimination she jumped 37-6 ½ to move into 4th place and earn three more jumps.
She improved to 38-0 ¼ on her fourth attempt and then 38-6 ¾ but going into the final round still trailed Nicole Green of Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School in Ladue, Mo., who opened with a 38-9 ¾.
But on her final attempt, Brawner came up huge, sailing 39-1 ¼ to win by 3 ½ inches. Green jumped 37-3 on her final attempt, and the national title belonged to Brawner.
During the high school season, Brawner jumped 40-5 ¾ to win the Meet of Champions and 40-6 ¼ to place 8th at West Philly Nationals and set a South Jersey sophomore class record. She was the 5th-ranked sophomore in the U.S., according to the MileSplit national database.
Brawner also jumped 19-7 ½ in the long jump at Franklin Field and was an All-America in both horizontal jumps.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 