Lena Gooden
Jumps
Student-Athlete Highlights
• Second-team All-American (2024)
• NCAA qualifier (2024)
• NCAA East First Round qualifier (2024)
• Two school records
• Five program all-time top 10 marks
Academic Honors
• 2024 USTFCCCA All-Academic
• 2023-24 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
In the Record Books
• Holds school record in the outdoor long jump (20′ 5/6.22m)
• Holds school record as a member of the 4×100-meter relay (44.21)
• Third in Vanderbilt history in the 60 meters (7.53 seconds)
• Third in Vanderbilt history in the 100 meters (11.65 seconds)
• Fifth in Vanderbilt history in the indoor long jump (19’2.5/5.85m)
• Seventh in Vanderbilt history in the outdoor 200 meters (24.08 seconds)
• Seventh in Vanderbilt history in the indoor 200 meters (24.61 seconds)
As a Freshman (2024)
• 10th in the long jump (6.06m) at the USATF U20 Outdoor Championships
• 16th in the long jump (6.22m) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships
• 10th in the long jump (6.19m) at the NCAA East First Round
• Sixth in the long jump (6.17m) and eighth as a member of the 4×100-meter relay (44.21) at the SEC Outdoor Championships
• Won the invite division of the long jump (6.14m, 2.4 m/s) and was sixth in the 100 meters prelims (11.65, 1.6 m/s), second in qualifying (11.59, 2.1 m/s) at the Music City Challenge
• Fifth overall and top freshman finisher in the long jump (5.79m) at the Crimson Elite
• Third in the long jump (5.85m) and first as a member of the 4×400-meter relay (3:43.01) at the Vanderbilt Invitational
The Gooden File
• Prepped at Osbourn Park
• Prep bests: 20-4.4 (6.21m) in the long jump; 38-1.5 (11.62m) in the triple jump; 8.04 in the 60m and 12.12 in the 100m
• Four-time VHSL Class 6 state champion in the long jump (indoor and outdoor)
• Two-time VHSL Class 6 Region B champion in the long jump (indoor and outdoor)
• 2023 regional runner-up in the triple jump (outdoors) and 55 meters (indoors)
• Bronze medalist in the long jump at 2023 New Balance Indoor Nationals
• 12th in the outdoor long jump at 2023 New Balance Outdoor Nationals
• Silver medalist in the long jump at the 2021 AAU Indoor National Championships
