2024 Outdoor High Jump National Champion // 2024 Big Ten Outdoor High Jump Champion

2024 Paris Olympics Qualifier (High Jump, Ghana)

All-American High Jump (Indoor & Outdoor '24, '25)

4x NCAA Championships Qualifier

First-Team All-Big Ten // High Jump (Outdoor '24)

Second-Team All-Big Ten // High Jump (Indoor & Outdoor '25)

Illinois Record - High Jump

2025

Indoor

• NCAA All-American (High Jump)
• Second-Team All-Big Ten (High Jump)
• NCAA Championships qualifier (High Jump)
• Placed sixth at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the high jump to become an All-American, 1.85m (6-0 3/4)
  • Joins Stacy Ann Grant (1997, 1998, 1999) as the only other high jumper in program history to earn All-America honors in consecutive seasons.
• Silver medalist in the high jump at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, 1.89m (6-2 1/4)
• Broke the program record in the high jump,1.92m (6-3 1/2), at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic

Outdoor

• NCAA All-American (High Jump)
• Second-Team All-Big Ten (High Jump)
• NCAA Championships qualifier (High Jump)
• National runner-up in the high jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships clearing a season-best height, 1.93m (6-4)
  • First Illini high jumper to earn All-America honors in consecutive seasons since Stacy Ann Grant achieved this feat in 1996, 1997 and 1998
  • Collects the school's fifth high jump All-America honor
• Silver medalist in the high jump at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, 1.84m (6-0 1/2)
• Won the high jump, 1.91m (6-3 1/4), at the Florida Relays and Gary Wieneke Memorial, 1.86m (6-1 1/4)
• Acadmeic All-Big Ten

2024

Indoor

• All-American (High Jump)
• NCAA Championships qualifier (High Jump)
• Placed eighth in high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships, 1.88m (6-2)
• Placed third in the high jump at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, 1.86m (6-1 1/4)

Outdoor

• National Champion (High Jump)
• All-American (High Jump)
• Big Ten Champion (High Jump)
• First-Team All-Big Ten (High Jump)
• NCAA Championships qualifier (High Jump)
• Became a National Champion in the high jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a meet, Big Ten and school record mark of 1.97m (6-5 1/2)
  • First ever women's field athlete National Champion for Illinois and fourth All-American in the event
• Became a Big Ten Champion in the high jump at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, 1.82m (5-11 1/2)

In Ghana

• 2021, 2022 African Champion
• 2021 African U20 Champion
• All-African Games Champion and Commonwealth Games finalist. 
• PR: High jump – 1.94m (6-4 1/4)

Personal

Daughter of Francis Yeboah and Lydia Afrakomaa... Has three brothers and two sisters

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