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2020 Women's Track & Field Roster

Evelyn Nkanga

  • Position Jumps/Sprints
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Senior
  • Major Mathematics (College of Arts and Science)
  • Hometown Sayreville, NJ
  • High School Sayreville War Memorial

Biography

2019-20: NCAA All-American in the triple jump (the NCAA Championships were cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic)...set a career-best time in the 400m (58.49) at the Terrier Invitational (2/24)...placed second in the triple jump (11.62m) at the Armory Last Chance Meet (2/21)...clocked a school record 25.21 in the 200m prelims at the UAA Indoor Championships, winning her heat as well as the finals in 25.30 (2/29-3/1)...also took third in the triple jump (11.62) at that meet...placed fifth in the triple jump (11.41m) and sixth in the 200m (25.92) at the All-Atlantic Region Indoor Championships (3/6-7)...NCAA All-Atlantic Region selection in the triple jump.
 
2018-19: NCAA Indoor Championships Triple Jump Qualifier, finishing ninth nationally (11.65m) in the event (3/8-9)…won the triple jump (11.69) at the ECAC Indoor Championships (3/2) and TCNJ Invitational (11.55m, 4/6)…finished second in the 200m (season-best 25.23), third in the triple jump (11.49m) and 10th in the long jump (career-best 4.98m), at the UAA Outdoor Championships (4/27-28)…took fourth in the triple jump (11.35m ) at the UAA Indoor Championships (2/23-24)…placed second in the 200m (26.69) at the Ramapo Season Opener (1/11).
 
2017-18: Earned All-America status after placing fourth in the triple jump (11.80m) at the NCAA Indoor Championships (3/9-10)…won the triple jump (11.76m) at the UAA Indoor Championships (2/24-25)…captured the 400m at the NYU Invitational (2/9) in a season-best time of 59.13…set a new NYU indoor triple jump record of 11.90m at the Metropolitan Indoor Championships (2/2)…took second in the triple jump (11.47m) and third in the 200m (26.65), producing a season-best 200m time (26.01) in the preliminary heat, at the UAA Outdoor Championships (4/28-29)…UAA Athlete of the Week (2/5).
 
2016-17: National Qualifier in the triple jump, finishing 15th (11.36m) at the NCAA Indoor Championships (3/10-11)…qualified for nationals with a season-best triple jump of 11.52m while taking the silver at the ECAC Indoor Championships (3/3-4)…UAA Indoor (2/25-26) and Outdoor (4/22-23) triple jump champion with respective marks of 11.36m and 11.39m…Villanova Open (1/27) Division II/III Triple Jump Champion (11.22m)…made her collegiate debut with an indoor season-best 200m (27.77) at the Ramapo Season Opener (1/13)…recorded an outdoor season-best triple jump (11.59) at the Penn Relays (4/28-29)…produced an outdoor season-best 200m (26.87) at the Tom Farrell Classic (5/6).
 
High School: Three-year member of the track & field team…All-Conference as a senior and All-County as a sophomore, junior and senior…National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society.
 
Personal: Chose NYU because it “presents many opportunities academically, socially and athletically”…volunteered at the Old Bridge Public Library.
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Freshman

    Hurdles/Jumps
    5'8"
  • 2018Sophomore

    Hurdles/Jumps
    5'8"
  • C

    2019Junior

    Jumps/Sprints
    5'8"
    C
  • 2020Senior

    Jumps/Sprints
    5'8"