COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- There was no backing off for Arkansas junior pentathlete Taliyah Brooks at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday.
Brooks had established a personal best in two disciplines and tied it in another when she was staring at no-pointing in her favorite event, the long jump.
"I was really nervous after the second red flag went up but at Arkansas, especially with coach [Chris] Johnson, we don't take safe jumps," Brooks said. "So the third jump I was going for it, going for the whole thing. I did not know [I had a legal jump] until he put the [white] flag.