Alexis Brown
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 26, 2001 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Long jump, Sprinting |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 100m: 11.08 (Lawrence, 2025) Long jump: 7.03m (Lawrence, 2025) |
Alexis Brown (born 26 April 2001) is an American long jumper and sprinter. She won the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championship long jump title.[1]
Early and personal life
[edit]She is from Kennedale, Texas, and attended Kennedale High School.[2] Her mother was born and raised in Haiti. In 2018, she finished third at the New Balance Nationals Indoor championships with a time of 7.38 seconds for the 60 metres. She represented Haiti at the 2018 CARIFTA Games.[3] She had to overcome surgery to remove an extra bone in her foot which hampered her collegiate athletics career. In 2024, she graduated with a Health, Kinesiology and Leisure Studies degree and was accepted to the MBA program at Baylor University, having transferred from the University of Florida in 2022.[4][5][6]
Career
[edit]In 2024, she was named the Outdoor Big 12 Performer of the Year, and finished fifth in the long jump and sixth as part of the Baylor University 4x100 metres relay team at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships.[4] She finished fifth in the 2024 United States Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024.[7]
Representing Baylor University, she won the 2025 NCAA Championship long jump indoor title on 14 March 2025 in Virginia Beach, with a personal best jump of 6.90 metres.[8][9] She became the first Baylor athlete to win a national championship in the long jump.[10] In May 2025, she jumped a personal best and wind-legal mark of 7.03m to win the long jump title at the Big 12 Conference in Lawrence, Kansas.[11] It was the third-farthest long jump made in the NCAA, behind only jumps by Tara Davis-Woodhall and Ackelia Smith.[12] She jumped 6.71 metres to place fifth at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lex Brown". World Athletics. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Kennedale, Trimble Tech, Lake Ridge shine in regional track meets". Forth Worth Star-Telegram. May 4, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ Grundy, William (March 28, 2018). "Alexis Brown Passes On Texas Relays For Carifta Games". MileSplit. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ a b "Baylor's 2023-24 Big 12 Athlete of the Year Nominees". Big22sports.com. June 17, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "A Healthy Alexis Brown Gets Great Southwest Win And US No 1". MileSplit. June 12, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ Logan, Cal (March 26, 2024). "'Heart of a champion': All-American Alexis Brown overcomes injuries, leaps toward program records". Baylorlariat. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Mansfield Lake Ridge's Jasmine Moore, Mansfield's Joseph Brown earn spots at Olympics". Dallas News. June 29, 2024. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "ALEXIS BROWN CHAMPION WOMEN'S LONG JUMP - NCAA D1 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025". Dye Stat. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "Daniel wins long jump on Day One of NCAA Men's and Women's Indoor track and field championships". abcnews. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "UT's Daniel, Baylor's Brown earn long jump crowns at NCAA indoors". ESPN. March 15, 2025. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
- ^ "ALEXIS BROWN GOES PAST 23 FEET FOR WORLD-LEADING LONG JUMP AT BIG 12 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS". Runnerspace. May 17, 2025. Retrieved May 18, 2025.
- ^ "DYESTAT DISCUSSIONS - EP 1184 - ALEXIS BROWN". Runnerspace. June 7, 2025. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
- ^ "Results - Eugene Diamond League - Pre Classic 2025". Watch Athletics Weekly. July 5, 2025. Retrieved July 6, 2025.
