Jasmin Stowers

She took up track and field while at school and made her first international appearance at the age of fifteen, competing at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics.

[1] Stowers gained a scholarship to attend Louisiana State University and began to study Nutrition and Food Science there in 2010.

At the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships she ran a school record of 7.94 to take third place again in a tight race, where the top three (including Sharika Nelvis and Tiffani McReynolds) all finished within one hundredth of a second of each other.

She ended the year on a high note at the 2014 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships: after setting a personal record of 12.71 seconds in the qualifying round, she progressed to the final and finished in fourth place – her highest ever senior national ranking.

[1] Stowers made a strong start to her professional career with a national title at the 2015 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

[4] No longer having to do both academics and sport, her new focus on hurdling brought results at the Drake Relays, where she moved up to twelfth on the all-time lists with a new personal record of 12.40 seconds – three tenths faster than she had gone before.

She won the Doha Diamond League meeting in a series record time of 12.35 seconds – this moved her up to seventh on the all-time rankings for the 100 m hurdles.

[7][8] In October 2020, Stowers announced her retirement on Twitter, citing an ongoing spinal injury that had severely hampered her ability to train and compete at the highest level.