2024 Track & Field Roster

Pac-12
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Kevin Yang

  • Position Jumps
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Roswell, Ga.
  • High School Chattahoochee
  • Major Computer Science

Biography

TFRRS Personal Profile

Career Accolades
  • Pac-12 triple jump champion (2023)
  • First-team Academic All-American (2023)
  • Two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2022, 2023)
  • Five-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021; winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
  • Triple Jump: 51-3 3/4 (15.64m)
  • Long Jump: 22-7 ¼ (6.89m)
  • 60: 7.40
As a Junior (2023)
Outdoors
  • Pac-12 triple jump champion
  • First-team Academic All-American
  • Won Pac-12 with lifetime best 51-3 3/4 (15.64), good for No. 7 all-time outdoors at Stanford
  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the triple jump
  • Big Meet triple jump winner
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Academic All-District
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
  • Reached season triple-jump best of 49-0 3/4 (14.95) at the Razorback Invitational
  • Moved to No. 10 on school's all-time indoor list
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Sophomore (2022)
Outdoors
  • Fourth in the Pac-12 in the triple jump
  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the triple jump
  • Achieved lifetime best triple jump of 50-6 (15.39m) at the NCAA West Prelims
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic team
  • Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
  • Season best triple jump was 48-0 1/2 (14.64m)
  • Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
As a Freshman (2021)
Outdoors
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Season-best triple jump of 47-10 3/4 (14.60m) came at the West Coast Classic
Indoors
  • Raced the 60 and triple-jumped at the Championships at the Peak at Air Force
  • Was sixth in the triple jump at 48-8 (14.83m). 
Prior to Stanford
  • Georgia state 6A runner-up in the triple jump in 2019 while at Chattahoochee High School in Johns Creek
  • Twelfth at the 2019 New Balance Outdoor Nationals with a personal best 49-0 ¼ (14.94m)
  • The distance was a school record and the longest by a Georgia jumper in 2019
  • It also was the third-longest by a jumper in his class from throughout the country
  • A three-time state finalist
  • A two-time All-American and a seven-time qualifier for national meets at the club level
Personal
  • Parents are Xiaoping Yang and Xuehong Kang
  • Siblings are Renyu and Greta
  • Born in Boise, Idaho
  • Physics Club president at Chattahoochee High
Career Results
Year Season (Meets) Event Season Best Conf. Region NCAA
2023 Outdoors (5) TJ 51-3 3/4 (15.64) 1 (51-3 3/4) 19 (50-7 1/4) --
LJ 22-1 3/4 (6.75) -- -- --
Indoors (4) TJ 49-0 3/4 (14.95) -- -- --
LJ 21-8 1/4 (6.61) -- -- --
2022 Outdoors (5) TJ 50-6 (15.39) 4 (50-4 3/4) 22 (50-6) --
LJ 22-7 1/4 (6.89) -- -- --
Indoors (3) TJ 48-0 1/2 (14.64) -- -- --
2021 Outdoors (6) TJ 47-10 3/4 (14.60) 9 (45-9) -- --
LJ 21-4 (6.50) -- -- --
Indoors (1) TJ 48-8 (14.83) -- -- --
60 7.40 -- -- --

Historical Player Information

  • 2021Freshman

    Jumps

  • 2022Sophomore

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  • 2023Junior

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  • 2024Senior

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