Elizabeth White Finishes Eighth at USATF Indoor National Championships

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico Long Jumper Elizabeth White felt right at home at the Albuquerque Convention Center on Saturday, finishing eighth at USATF Indoor National Championships with a 6.29m (20’ 7.75”) mark.

After scratching on her first attempt, White qualified for the finals with her 6.29m jump on the second – that second jump was still good enough to secure her eighth place when the dust settled. 2020 Olympian Tara Davis-Woodhall jumped a world-leading 7.18 (23’ 6.75”) on her fifth attempt to win the event – the No. 2 mark on the all-time U.S. performer list and No. 6 on the world all-time performer list. The top three finishers in the event all secured the Indoor World Championships standard.

Saturday’s competition was the second year in a row that White has competed against the nation’s elite long jumpers at USATF Indoors and cracked the Top 10 after finishing sixth (6.31m, 20′ 8.5″) in the event at the ABQ Convention Center in 2023. Her 6.39m collegiate best from MW Indoor Championships in 2023 is the UNM program record, but she recently jumped a new personal best of 6.44m as an unattached athlete at the Don Kirby Invitational on Feb. 9 — that mark would’ve been good enough to punch her ticket to NCAA Indoor National Championships if she still had the requisite eligibility.

White dons the Lobo uniform for one more outdoor season this spring, set to make her outdoor season debut at the UNM Spring Invitational on March 23.