Lumberton’s Greg Foster earned his 3rd consecutive All-America long jump honor Wednesday at the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Foster, a Princeton junior from Lawrenceville School, jumped 26-4 ¼ with a legal 0.1 meter-per-second tailwind on his 2nd jump to place 4th in the country. He finished a quarter of an inch out of 3rd.
Foster, the Ivy League record holder indoors at 27-0 ¼ at the Armory in March and the Ivy League outdoor record holder with a 26-5 ½, also earned All-America honors with his 7th-place finish outdoors last year with a 25-0 ¾ in Eugene and a 4th-place finish indoors in February at 26-8 ¼ in Fayettville.
Foster opened with a foul and followed his 26-4 ¼ with a foul. The top nine after three jumps – everyone at 25-4 ¾ or better – got three more jumps and after another foul on his 4th jump he hit 25-9 ½ on his 5th and then fouled again on his final jump.
Foster is ranked 14th in the world with his 27-0 ¼ this year and 3rd among U.S. men.
His 26-5 ½ Wednesday was his 2nd-best outdoor jump ever, behind that 26-5 ½ last month at Weaver Stadium, and his 6th-best jump overall:
27-0 ½ … Feb. 28, 2026, New York
26-10 ½ … Feb. 13, 2026, Fayetteville, Ark.
26-8 ¼ … March 13, 2026, Fayetteville, Ark.
26-5 ¾ … Jan. 17, 2026, Philadephia
26-5 ½… May 16, 2026, Princeton
26-4 ¼ … June 10, 2026, Eugene, Ore.
Foster has exhausted his Ivy League eligibility and will take a graduate year next year at Rutgers, where he’ll have one year of outdoor eligibility remaining. The Ivy League does not allow grad years of eligibility.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 