Nigeria’s latest female high jump sensation, Temitope Adeshina has received a verbal round of applause from her coach at Texas Technical University of USA, Wes Kittley, who said he was very proud of her performance.
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Sports247 reports that Adeshina earned her coach’s plaudits after she pulled off a sensational leap to win the women’s high jump gold in the last round of this year’s NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.
En route to her conquest of the field, Adeshina moved up the leaderboard at the end and, with three jumpers left in the competition, two cleared 6-3 1/4 and she was in third place, but went top of the log after scaling the last two rungs.
Stanford’s Alyssa Jones failed at 6-4 ¼ and Illinois’ Rose Yeboah could not get 6-5 ½, both of which the 27-year-old Adeshina cleared on her first attempts, thereby emerging as a five-time first-team all-American.
With her stunning performance on Saturday, Adeshina gained a rare status accorded a top-eight finish at NCAA championship meets, having also been co-champion at last year’s NCAA indoors as well.
Kittley retorted in the aftermath of Adeshina’s massive gold medal-winning leap. “They’re hard to ever get one. Just really, really proud of Temitope … for coming back and holding on to her crown from the year before.”
Sports247 reports that it is another huge achievement for Temitope Simbiat Adeshina, who shot to limelight in in June 2022, when she won silver in the high jump at the African Athletics Championship in St Pierre, Mauritius.
She joined Texas Tech University in 2023 and, on June 8th, 2024 at the NCAA Championship in Eugene, USA, she jumped a national record of 1.97 metres to meet the Olympic qualifying standard and later competed at the Paris 2024 Games.
Adeshina tied for victory at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach on March 15th, along with Elena Kulichenko, then set a meet record of 1.97 metres to win the Big 12 Conference high jump finals in May 2025.
On January 31st, 2026, while competing at the Razorback International, Adeshina equalled her personal best of 1.97 metres for the third straight season, then set a new meet record of 1.96m in winning the Big 12 Indoor Championship last month.
