BATON ROUGE, La – In his first outdoor competition of the season, Joseph Oreva set the farthest jump in Division-II outdoor long jump this season at the Joe May Invitational at Louisiana State University.
The sophomore from Port Harcourt, Nigeria finished third in the long jump with a distance of 7.77 meters. That mark sets a new meet record and is just 0.03 meters short of the school record set by Larry Cooke in 1977.
Oreva's mark beats out Christopher Goodwin from Central Missouri's previous number one mark of 7.64 meters by 0.13 meters. On his third jump of the day, Oreva had already passed Goodwin with a jump of 7.65 meters.
Oreva beat out jumpers from LSU, Houston, Kentucky, Kent State and UConn. The two jumpers that beat out Oreva were former NCAA Division-I long jump champion Rayvon Grey at 7.91 meters and Julian Collins of Alabama at 8.05 meters.
This is the second time in his career that Oreva has held the best long jump mark in Division-II. During his freshman season, Oreva finished the 2021 indoor season with a school record mark of 7.84 meters, the best mark in Division-II. He would go on to finish fourth at the 2021 Indoor National Championships.
Oreva will look to continue his big season in Anderson, S.C. on Saturday, Apr. 16, at the Anderson Invitational. Fans can follow along with updates on the Carson-Newman track & field team at cneagles.com.
