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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It was a two-for-one week for Jacksonville freshman Samaryah White, who was named the ASUN Field Performer and Freshman of the Week, the league announced Wednesday.
After a successful showing at the Georgia Southern Relays, White earned her first ASUN weekly awards of her Dolphin career. It was also the sixth weekly award won by a ‘Phin this season, the third and fourth awards of the outdoor season specifically.
White won her honors after a first place showing in the long jump. She paced the crowd in the event with a career-best 6.16m leap. To the team’s credit, teammates Julia Sue-Kam-Ling and Ma’Kala Davis placed second and third respectively. Her distance also shattered her previous career best leap of 5.52m set at the River City Relays.
Jacksonville’s lone freshman now owns the furthest long jump of the entire ASUN season, outpacing Davis’ previous league-best 6.07m jump. Across the entire NCAA landscape, White’s jump is the 69th furthest in the entire country.
The outdoor season has just one more meet – the UNF East Coast Relays from May 1-2 – before the ASUN Championship begins May 14-16.