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Kelsey Daniel cap­tured gold at the Na­tion­al Col­le­giate Ath­let­ic As­so­ci­a­tion (NCAA) Di­vi­sion I In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships when he he won the men's long jump ti­tle at Vir­ginia Beach, Vir­ginia in the Unit­ed States on Fri­day (March 14).

The Texas Uni­ver­si­ty fi­nal-year stu­dent land­ed the crown with a fifth-round ef­fort of 8.16 me­tres, a na­tion­al record. The Kaizen Pan­thers club mem­ber dom­i­nat­ed the field tak­ing the lead with his sec­ond-round mark of 7.97m. He then im­proved to 8.11m on his fourth leap to im­prove on the pre­vi­ous na­tion­al record of 8.03m set in his win at the Arkansas In­vi­ta­tion­al on Jan­u­ary 17. The Par­letu­vi­er res­i­dent then ex­tend­ed his na­tion­al mark to 8.16m in the next round to se­cure the ti­tle. Ok­la­homa's Nickaoli Williams was sec­ond (7.96) with Hen­ry Kinere of Arkansas (7.91) in third.

Daniel's NCAA tri­umph adds to his Na­tion­al Ju­nior Col­le­giate Ath­let­ics As­so­ci­a­tion (NJ­CAA) suc­cess in 2023 when he cap­tured the triple jump ho­n­ours whilst a stu­dent at New Mex­i­co Ju­nior Col­lege. The 2011 Ju­nior (Un­der-21) Pan Amer­i­can Games sil­ver medal­list was eighth in the long jump (7.51) and 11th in the triple jump (15.55) at the South East­ern Con­fer­ence (SEC) Cham­pi­onships at the end of Feb­ru­ary.