Academy of Art University Athletics

Adding three more All-American honors to bring her career total to 21, a record among Urban Knights from all sport programs, Academy of Art track & field's Marie-Jeanne Ourega spent NCAA Division II Indoor Nationals competing in both horizontal jumps as well as the 60m hurdles.

Beginning on Mar. 8, Ourega put herself through to the long jump final with two marks of 19-4.25 (5.90m) or better before rising in the ranks following a 19-11.75 (6.09m) on her fifth attempt. The Communications & Media Technologies major ended up fifth overall on the podium by the event's conclusion. Also in action in the 60m hurdles prelims, Ourega finished at 8.60 to take 11th overall, just 0.02 seconds from qualifying to the final, as a Second Team All-American.

Ourega returned to Pitt State's Robert W. Plaster Center on Mar. 9 for the triple jump and proceeded to have her best mark of the day on her third attempt. Going 41-2.5 (12.56m), the native of L'Haÿ-les-Roses, France once again made the podium in seventh overall.