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TFRRS Personal Profile

Career Accolades

  • Pac-12 triple jump champion (2023)
  • Two-time first-team Academic All-American (2023, 2024)
  • Three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Seven-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021; winter 2022, 2023, 2024; spring 2022, 2023, 2024)

As a Senior (2024)
Outdoors

  • First-team Academic All-American
  • Won the Big Meet triple jump with an all-conditions PB of 51-8 1/4w (15.75)
  • Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in the triple jump
  • Placed 13th at NCAA West Prelims, one place and 4 1/2 inches from advancing to NCAA Championships
  • USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

Indoors

  • Had a season-best triple jump of 50-9 1/2 (15.47) to place second at Ken Shannon Invitational
  • Won the Commonwealth Opener with a jump of 50-7 1/2 (15.43)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll

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
2024 Outdoors (4) TJ 51-8 1/4w, 49-6 1/2 5 (49-6 1/2) 13 (51-4 1/4w) --
  Indoors (5) TJ 50-9 1/2 (15.47) -- -- --
    LJ 21-1 1/4 (6.43) -- -- --
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 -- -- --
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