Brown Ends Night with 300m Hurdles State Championship

For GPS Bruiser Jasmine Brown, a long day of track and field events ended the way it should have – with Brown standing atop the winners’ platform, receiving a first place medal. The first place finish for Brown came in the 300m Hurdles, the last event of the evening that included a GPS athlete.

As a team, the Bruisers scored 61 points and finished 4th overall after winning the Team Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Of the 61 points scored by GPS, Brown was responsible for an amazing 31.5 of them. Consider this: Twenty Division II schools were represented at the State Meet. Eleven of those teams scored fewer points as a team than Jasmine Brown did on her own.

Brown’s Spring Fling started on Monday when she finished 3rd in the Pentathlon, picking up 6 points for GPS. Her first of 4 events on Thursday was the Triple Jump. She finished a close 2nd (8 team points) after holding the lead until the last jump of the competition. An hour later Brown was on the starting block for the 100m Hurdles. She finished 3rd and added 6 more points to the team total. In the evening session, Brown ran the anchor leg of the 4X100 Relay, taking another 3rd place finish for 6 more points (1.5 earned by Brown). But her final event proved to be the sweetest – a dominating victory in the 300m Hurdles and a well-deserved individual State Championship. Brown led from the outset and never looked back, leaving the field well behind her as she crossed the finish line.

VIDEO: Brown Pulls Away to Win the 300m Hurdles


GPS Results from Thursday night:
100m Hurdles - Brown 3rd, Tory Kemp 8th
4X100m Relay - Stokes, Shepherd, Lawrence, Brown 3rd
4X200m Relay - Stokes, Shepherd, Lawrence, Lester 7th
300m Hurdles - Brown 1st