By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
D’Anna Cotton of Burlington won the women’s triple jump during USA Track and Field’s under-20 national championship last week in Eugene, Oregon.
Cotton, a graduate of Cummings earlier this month and a state champion in the event, posted a mark of 43 feet, 1 inch at Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus.
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The runner-up was Shi’eana Hall of the University of Houston at 42-4¾ and third place went to Stanford’s Samantha Ennin at 41-10½.
Cotton had the seventh-place distance in the long jump at 19-6.
Cotton will compete collegiately for the University of South Carolina.
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