Orji won 2016 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships triple jump and placed 6th in long jump. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Women's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year in 2015–2016.
In 2016, Orji placed won 2016 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships triple jump and placed 4th in long jump and was named the U.S. She won 2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships triple jump setting an American junior record and placed 7th in long jump and was named the 2016 Southeastern Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year as well as the SEC Field Athlete of the Year. Orji placed second 2015 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships triple jump and placed 13th in long jump. She had a high school personal best triple jump of 44 feet 11 inches She is a 2014 graduate of Mount Olive High School (New Jersey) in Flanders. Orji defended her New Jersey Meet of Champions Triple jump crown, set a New Jersey state record with a 42-6 1/2 and improved on the Morris County long jump record of 20–2 in 2013.
She won the 2013-2014 New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association girls track and field Gatorade Player of the Year awards. Orji credits doing gymnastics when she was young for part of her early success. Orji wanted to become an Olympic gymnast as a youth. At the 2010 New Jersey state championships, she performed the All-Around (Vault, Bars, Beam and Floor). In 2010, Orji was a level 8 gymnast at Giant Gymnastics, Inc. She has set a new US triple jump record twice.īorn in Hoboken, New Jersey to Nigerian parents, Orji grew up in Mount Olive Township, New Jersey and graduated from Mount Olive High School in 2014. Keturah Orji (born March 5, 1996) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the triple jump.
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