It was another championship performance but at a different school for track & field standout Allie Jones.
The San Marcos alum, competing for USC, won the Pac-12 women’s heptathlon for the second straight year and set a school record and personal best with 6,234 points at the conference championship meet at Hilmer Lodge Stadium in Walnut Creek over the weekend.
Jones won last year’s title with 5,731 points while competing for Stanford, where she is the school-record holder. She transferred to USC for graduate school.
She is the first person to win the conference heptathlon title in consecutive years since Alissa Brooks-Johnson of Washington State in 2017 and 2018, and is USC’s first champion since Amalie Luel won in 2016.
She produced three personal bests and won four of the seven events en route to breaking her own USC record of 6,217 points that she set at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 13. She crushed her previous best of 13.10 in the 100 hurdles, winning in 12.81; won the long jump in a PR of 20-5.24 and captured the 200 (23.33) and 800 (2:14.89) meters.
Her other PR came in the javelin with a third-place mark of 133-04. She finished second in the high jump (5-07.75) and fifth in the shot put (39-05.25).
Jones’ USC-record total is the third-best in Pac-12 championships history behind Oregon’s Brianne Thieson in 2012 (6,353) and Arizona State’s Jacquelyn Johnson in 2008 (6,307).
Ida Eking of Washington finished second in the competition with 6,114 points and Avery McMullen of Colorado was third at 5,831 points.