John Kroeger Season 2023-24
PositionJUMPS
ClassSophomore
HometownYuba City, Calif.
TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- USTFCCCA All-Academic (2023)
- Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (spring 2022, 2023; winter 2023)
- School-record holder, 4x100 relay
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
- Long jump: 25-7 ½ (7.81m)
- 100: 10.70
- 200: 21.08i
- 60: 6.97i
- Triple jump: 45-4 (13.81m)
As a Sophomore (2023)
Outdoors
- Advanced to the NCAA Championships in the long jump, placing 24th
- Among five Stanford NCAA qualifiers who helped Cardinal place third as a team
- Jumped a PB 25-7 1/2 (7.81) to place third at the NCAA West Prelims
- Previous PB was 24-10 (7.57) for seventh at the Pac-12 Championships
- Achieved long jump PB's three times during season
- Improved 1 foot, 10 inches (0.56) from 2023 PB of 23-9 1/2 (7.25)
- Ran opening leg on 4x100 relay (39.56) and broke a 58-year-old school record, at NCAA West Prelims
- Won 100 in Big Meet dual against Cal
- Earned PB in the 100 (10.70) at Brutus Hamilton Invitational
- Tied for No. 5 on Stanford's all-time outdoor performers' list in the long jump
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Jumped season long-jump best of 23-1 3/4 (7.05) to place second at Spokane Invitational
- Ran 60 PB of 6.97 at Spokane Invitational
- Ran 200 PB of 21.08 to place 11th at Ken Shannon Invitational
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Freshman (2022)
Outdoors
- Won the 100, 200, and long jump at the West Coast Last Chance Meet
- Had a wind-aided 23-4 3/4 (7.13m) to win the long jump
- Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Long-jumped season best of 22-7 (6.88m) at UW Indoor Preview
Prior to Stanford
- Third at the 2019 California state meet in the long jump while at River Valley High School in Yuba City, Calif.
- Captured the long jump title at the 2019 Sac-Joaquin Section Masters meet
- Won the 2019 Capital Valley Conference title in the 100, 200, and long jump
- Won the 2019 long jump title and was 200 runner-up at the Sac-Joaquin Section Division II championships
- In 2018, as a sophomore, was the SJS Division III triple jump champ and advanced to the state meet in the long jump
- Holds school records in the 100, 200, long jump, triple jump, and 4x400
Personal
- Parents are Steven and Marie Kroeger
- Marie coached John at River City High School
- Has an older sister, Lauren
- Valedictorian at River Valley
- Among six high school students to build an airplane from scratch, through the Northern California Aerospace Initiative
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023 | Outdoors (9) | LJ | 25-7 1/2 (7.81) | 7 (24-10) | 3 (25-7 1/2) | 24 (22-11 3/4) |
| 4x100 | 39.56 | 7 (39.76) | 18 (39.56) | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:13.42 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 100 | 10.70 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 200 | 21.87 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| TJ | 45-0 1/2 (13.73) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (5) | LJ | 23-1 3/4 (7.05) | -- | -- | -- | |
| 4x400 | 3:12.32 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 60 | 6.97 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 200 | 21.08 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2022 | Outdoors (4) | LJ | 22-11 3/4 (7.00) | -- | -- | -- |
| 100 | 10.76 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 200 | 21.99 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (3) | LJ | 22-7 (6.88) | -- | -- | -- |