Janie Ford - Women's Track and Field - Vanderbilt University Athletics

Janie Ford Season 2025-26

Multi

Class Freshman
Event Multi
Hometown Mobile, Ala.
High School St. Paul's Episcopal
Major Undeclared
Bio

The Ford File
• Prepped at St. Paul’s Episcopal
• Prep bests: pentathlon – 3,941; heptathlon – 5,311; 60mH – 8.69; 100mH – 13.97; HJ – 1.69m (5-6.5); SP – 9.99m (32-9.25); 200m – 23.34; LJ – 6.21m (20-4.5); Javelin – 34.7m (113-10); 800m – 2:10.54; TJ – 12.52m (41-0.75)
• 2024 and 2025 Gatorade Player of the Year for Alabama girl’s track and field
• 2025 New Balance Nationals champion in the pentathlon
• Set the NBN meet record in the multi and recorded the No. 4 all-time score by a U.S. high school girl
• Alabama 7A outdoor state meet record holder in the long jump, 200 meters and 300mH
• All-time all-class AHSAA heptathlon state record holder (5,311 points)
• Holds the state record in the 300-meter hurdles (41.43)
• Top 3 in state history in the long jump (6.21m/20-4.5) and 200 meters (23.34)
• Three-time state champion in the heptathlon (2023, ’24, ’25)
• 21 total Alabama state championships

Activities & Societies
• National Art Honor Society

Personal
• Mother was on the track and field team at Virginia
• Maternal grandfather was on the cross country and track and field team at South Alabama