Ball State’s Charity Griffith wins NCAA high jump national championship

Ball State has an NCAA national champion in Division I track and field.

Senior Charity Griffith set a Ball State record as she won the high jump competition, Saturday, in Austin, Texas.  Griffith jumped 1.93 meters or 6 feet, 4 inches.  Her competition could not clear 1.90 meters.  Griffith’s national championship is Ball State’s first since LaTasha Jenkins won the 200 meters in 1999.

Ball State did win multiple track and field All-American honors in the same season for the first time in school history.  Jenelle Rogers tallied finished 6,018 points to finish fifth in the heptathlon.

While Ball State has not had a team national championship, the school has produced two individual titles in track and field, and three in swimming – all of this since 1970.