MYRTLE BEACH,SC - The illustrious career of Johns Hopkins senior Victoria Kadiri was now down to one jump.  After grabbing the top spot on the leaderboard in the Triple Jump at the 2024 NCAA Division III Women's Outdoor Track Championships on her first attempt, Kadiri had held the top spot through five rounds that included 21 other competitors and more than 80 other jumps.

And now, as the last competitor to toe the line at the end of the runway, she found herself looking up at Rainah Dunham of Urinsus, whose sixth and final jump of 12.75 meters pushed her past Kadiri's best mark through five rounds of 12.66 meters.

Four years of hard work, record-breaking performances and thriving on the biggest stage had come down to this; one jump, at the hot, humid, weather-delayed final day of the NCAA Championships.  Kadiri had a little time to think about what she needed to do as Dunham's final jump came six competitors before Kadiri took her turn. 

Consider it time well spent.

Kadiri used the approximately 140-feet of runway to nail the final jump of her Johns Hopkins career.  When she landed, she had covered 13.04 meters in the air.  For those who prefer the American Standard, that's 42-feet, 9 1/4-inches, or just under a foot father than Dunham's runner-up distance.

With her final jump, Kadiri claimed her third consecutive Triple Jump title at the NCAA Outdoor Track Championships.  In the process, she becomes just the fifth person in the history of the championship to win three or more consecutive titles in the Triple Jump and the first since Darcell Edwards of McMurry won the event four straight times from 2001-04.

Kadiri's winning jump of 13.04 meters would have won every other Triple Jump title except one since the event first took place at the NCAAs in 1984.  The one year it wouldn't have won was 2023, when Kadiri herself won with a meet-record jump of 13.21 meters.

Already the holder of the Johns Hopkins record for most individual NCAA titles won by a female student-athlete before this week's championships even started (8), Kadiri's career-ending, NCAA-winning jump also tied her with Bill Milne (Men's Swimming / 1972-74) for the most individual national championships by any Blue Jay student-athlete with nine.

Kadiri's effort helped the Blue Jays tie for 11th place in the final team standings with 16 points as her title landed 10 points in the team standings for Johns Hopkins.

Johns Hopkins got five additional points on Saturday's final day of competition from junior Lauren Phillips, who placed fourth in the 400-meter final with a personal-best time of 54.97.  It is the second straight fourth-place finish in the event for Phillips, who dropped her time of 55.96 at last year's championship to this year's time of 54.97.

Junior Sara Bartlett (Triple Jump) and graduate student Sara Stephenson (5,000-meter run) rounded out JHU's entries on the final day of the NCAAs.  Bartlett grabbed Second Team All-America honors in the Triple Jump as she placed 11th overall with a top mark of 11.79 meters, while Stephenson placed 19th in the 5,000 with a time of 17:32.75.