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Alphonso Jordan
Alphonso Jordan
Class:
Graduated

Hometown:
Charlotte, N.C.

High School:
Hopewell

Height / Weight:
6-3 / 165

Event:
Jumps/Hurdles

Birthdate:
11/01/1987

- Earned All-ACC Honors in '07, '08 and `09
- NCAA Outdoor Championships Qualifier: '07, '08 and `09
- NCAA Indoor Championship Participant: `09
- NCAA Indoor All-American: `09
- In the Georgia Tech Record Books: Triple Jump - 53-09.25 (School Record)

In 2008-09: Indoor: Earned All-American honors after several dominating performances in jump events during the season ... posted season best-mark in the 60m hurdles after finishing in a time of 8.03 at the Virginia Tech Elite Invitational ... also posted season best mark in long jump at VT Elite with a 7.33m effort ... qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships with after recording a 15.97m effort at the VT Elite Meet ... set career best at NCAA Indoor Championships with a 16.08m effort ... mark was good enough for eighth overall and earned Johnson All-American honors for the first time. Outdoor: Was an NCAA Region Qualifier in the Long and High Jumps and the 110m Hurdles ... set school record with a 16.39m effort at the NCAA East Regional Meet ... has team season best mark in the long jump at 7.41m, which was also an NCAA Qualifying mark ... was the ACC Champion in the triple jump with a 16.05m performance to place first ... participated in the triple jump at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships and placed 11th overall.

In 2007-08: Placed 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the triple jump with a mark of 51 feet, 5 1/2 inches ... Earned All-East Region honors after placing second with a best mark of 52 feet, 9 1/2 inches in the triple jump at the NCAA East Region Championships (5/30) ... Earned All-ACC honors in the triple jump after finishing second with a mark of 52 feet, 8 inches ... Ran an NCAA Regional qualifying and personal-best time of 14.26 in the 110-meter hurdles at the ACC Outdoor Championships (4/17) for a seventh-place finish ... Finished 15th in the triple jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a mark of 49 feet, 8 1/4 inches ... Earned first career ACC Championship in the triple jump with a indoor personal-best mark of 52 feet, 4 3/4 inches ... Placed fifth in the long jump at the ACC Indoor Championships with a mark of 23 feet, 11 inches ... Ran a personal-best time of 8.03 in the 60-meter hurdles at the ACC Indoor Championships for a fourth-place finish ... Garnered an indoor personal-best mark of 24 feet, 3/4 inches in the long jump at the VT Elite meet.

In 2006-07: Had an astonishing inaugural season in a Tech uniform ... An All-ACC selection for the triple jump ... Finished fifth at the NCAA East Regional Outdoor Championships in Gainesville, Fla. in the triple jump with a mark of 50'1.50'' ... Ran the third leg on Tech's 4x100m relay team that clocked a team-best outdoor time of 41.63 at the ACC Outdoor Championships, finishing seventh ... Placed third at the ACC Outdoor Championships in the triple jump competition with a leap of 50'4.50'' ... Set a team-best indoor time of 7.71 in the 55m hurdles at the Diet Pepsi Invitational (1/27) ... Set a second team-best indoor mark of 8.16 in the 60m hurdles at the ACC Indoor Championships, finishing eighth ... Placed seventh overall at the ACC Indoor Championships in the long jump event with a leap of 22'11.0'' ... Jumped 50 feet, 8.25 inches at the ACC Indoor Championships finishing in the third position.

High School: Four-year letterwinner in track & field under coach Lawrence Lawson at Hopewell High School...Earned all-American and all-state honors in the triple jump...Ranked fourth in the nation in the triple jump...AAU National Champion, Indoor National Champion, Indoor State Champion and Outdoor State Champion in the triple jump...Holds the Mecklenburg County record in triple jump...National Honor Society.

Personal: Born Alphonso David Jordan on November 1, 1987 in El Paso, Texas...Son of Alphonso and Regina Jordan...Majoring in Architecture.

Jordan's Career Top Marks
EVENT MARK (INDOOR) MARK (OUTDOOR)
60-Meter Hurdles 8.03 -
Long Jump 24-00.75 23-10.00
Triple Jump 52-04.75 52-08.00

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