AUSTIN -- A standing room-only crowd packed Mike A. Myers Stadium on Saturday, hoping to witness history.
They got their wish, but it wasn't just national sensation Matthew Boling rewriting the national record book.
The Houston Strake Jesuit senior had company from his future University of Georgia teammate, Mansfield Lake Ridge phenom Jasmine Moore.
In the final state meet of her record-setting career, Moore smashed the overall state record and broke the national record for high school-only competitions in the girls triple jump by winning the Class 6A state championship with a leap of 44 feet, 10 inches. Luling's Ychlindria Spears had held both records, jumping 44-2.25 in 2001.
BREAKING: This jump of 44-10 by @UGATrack signee Jasmine Moore of @Lake_RidgeTrack breaks state record in triple jump and breaks national record for high school-only competitions @SportsDayHS @MISDathletics @mansfieldisd @uiltexas @DyeStat @tandfn @TXMileSplit @TTFCA @usatodayhss pic.twitter.com/Rzc9bcUUmZ
— Greg Riddle (@DMNGregRiddle) May 11, 2019
The high school national record for all competitions remains 44-11.75 by Brittany Daniels from California in 2004, according to Track & Field News. Only Daniels (she also jumped 44-11 in 2005) and New Jersey's Keturah Orji (44-11 in 2013) have produced wind-legal jumps that were better than what Moore jumped Saturday in winning her fourth consecutive state championship.
"I was really looking forward to today. It was my last time, and I just really wanted to go out there and make myself proud," Moore said. "I was happy with it. I was kind of confused on the record, and which is which."
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Moore almost broke Daniels' record last year, but her winning jump of 45-4.75 at the state meet was wind-aided, so it didn't go down in the record book.
Earlier Saturday, she won her fourth straight state championship in the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 7 inches.
Moore and the rest of America have been captivated by the unbelievable 100-meter times being posted by Boling, who ran a wind-aided 9.98 seconds on April 27 and then Saturday tied the overall state record and broke the national record for high school-only competitions when he won the 6A state title in 10.13. Moore has been motivated by watching an athlete that she took recruiting trips to Georgia with.
"We went on two visits together," Moore said. "He's cool. I'm excited for him. Watching all the other commits do amazing makes you want to keep going, because you don't want to be that person to get left [behind]."
Moore has talked about how one of her ultimate goals is to qualify for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials. That's a big reason she signed with Georgia, the defending women's indoor NCAA champion, because she wanted to join a team "full of people who want to be great and whose goals are also the Olympics."
"I feel I'm getting closer," she said.
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Subscribe today for as little as $5 a month!Moore entered the state meet ranked No. 1 in the nation this season with a mark of 43-7. She jumped farther than that on five of her six attempts Saturday, and in the process broke the 6A state-meet record of 43-5.25 that was set in 2002 by Plano East's Erica McLain, who went on to compete in the 2008 Olympics.
On her first jump of the 6A girls triple jump competition, @UGATrack signee Jasmine Moore of @Lake_RidgeTrack breaks 6A state-meet record with this jump of 44-1.75. Moore still has 5 more jumps to take @SportsDayHS @MISDathletics @mansfieldisd @TTFCA @TXMileSplit @DyeStat @tandfn pic.twitter.com/YxQIspSc8E
— Greg Riddle (@DMNGregRiddle) May 11, 2019
Late in the morning Saturday, as the 6A girls long jump was just about to begin, a downpour began that triggered a two-hour weather delay. Moore found the perfect way to relax while waiting out the storm.
"I sat in my coach's car and we watched 'The Office,' " Moore said.
It was just another day at the office for Moore. After winning 5A titles in the long jump the previous three years before Lake Ridge moved up to 6A in the UIL's realignment, Moore beat defending 6A champion Claire Bryant of Houston Memorial, who took second Saturday with a mark of 20-4.
.@UGATrack signee Jasmine Moore of Mansfield Lake Ridge wins fourth straight state title in long jump, winning 6A title with jump of 20-7 after 2-hour weather delay. Here is video of final attempt (jump of 20-3.5). @SportsDayHS @Lake_RidgeTrack @MISDathletics @TTFCA @TXMileSplit pic.twitter.com/ECNUtzcPwx
— Greg Riddle (@DMNGregRiddle) May 11, 2019
It was a matchup of the nation's best. Bryant ranks No. 1 with a season-best jump of 21-2.25, and Moore is No. 2 at 20-11.25.
"It was kind of annoying, because I felt really good before the delay, but I just tried to get warmed up so I could do well," Moore said. "I felt like it was probably my best series. Every jump was in the 20s, so I'm pretty happy with that."
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