Brown Jumps into T&F History

Track and Field’s Alexis Brown made history as she became the first Baylor student-athlete to win a national championship in the long jump event. 

At the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships, Brown soared, breaking her own Baylor program record twice and the facility record with her gold-winning 22’ 7.75” (6.90m) mark. 

On the opening day of the NCAA National Indoor Championships ­— prior to her jump into the record books — the Baylor long jumper and sprinter wrote: “This is the day you become a national champion and jump 6.90 (meters).” That afternoon she jumped exactly 6.90 meters to win Baylor’s first-ever national championship in the long jump.

Brown put together arguably one of the best-ever series with four 22-foot jumps. Even on her last attempt, when she had already wrapped up the title, Brown went 22’ 0.25” (61.7m).

“I decided to take the last jump, because I was like, ‘I won’t get this moment back,’’’ she said. “Even if I fouled, even if something happened, I won the meet. I looked in the stands, and Coach Stacey didn’t even watch the jump. She was turned around crying. I look and see my parents, and my dad’s like, ‘Go for it!’ Everybody thought I was injured because I immediately went to the ground. But it was the emotions just hit.”

Following up the indoor record mark, Brown staked her claim as an all-time great, leaping to 23’ 0.75” (7.03m) at the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, good for No. 1 in the world in 2025 and No. 3 in collegiate history. 

Brown added to her future Baylor HOF career, becoming the first Baylor woman to win Big 12 T&F Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Baylor also took Big 12 honors, with Brown winning female and Nathaniel Ezekiel winning male Outdoor Performers of the Year — BU’s first-ever sweep. Brown also became the first woman to win in back-to-back years.

At press time, track and field enters Championship Season, with sights set on filling the Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium trophy shelves with more hardware.