[1] After winning the 1999 NCAA 200m title and finishing second to Marion Jones at the U.S. Championships, Jenkins was poised to make her mark on the international scene, but a collapsed lung she suffered on the flight to the 1999 World University Games forced her to with withdraw from that meet as well as the World Championships.

She graduated from Ball State University with a degree in English and a minor in counseling psychology.

She scored 25 points at the Mid-American meet in 1998, and her 1999 NCAA crown was the first ever national championship for Ball State women's track & field.

According to the Chicago Tribune on August 25, 2006, Jenkins had her A sample fail in a drugs test taken in late July that year.

Latasha Jenkins was inducted in the Ball State University Sports Hall of Fame in February 2009.