Gittens, a junior from Nashville, Tennessee, starred at the NCAA DI Indoor Track & Field Championships this past weekend in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It was inside the Randal Tyson Track Center where Gittens kicked things off on Thursday by shattering the collegiate record in the pentathlon with her 4746 total, 43 more than the previous best set by Kendell Williams of Georgia in 2016. Then, Gittens became the only athlete in meet history to complete the multi-high jump double after topping the best bar of the meet at 1.90m (6-2¾). Gittens put a bow on her incredible weekend with a third-place effort in the long jump with a PR 6.68m (21-11). Count it up and that’s 26 points – the third-most by a female athlete in meet history.
This all came after Gittens scored 23 points at the SEC Indoor Championships – sweeping the high jump and long jump in the process – and notched another all-time performance in the pentathlon a few weeks earlier at the Texas Tech Invitational (4612).