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2022-23 Track and Field Roster

Julia Jordahl-Henry

  • Position Jumps
  • Class Senior
  • High School Wellesley
  • Hometown Wellesley, Mass.
  • School Columbia College
  • Major Neuroscience

Biography

2022-23 (Senior): (ITF) Participated in the Crowell Open, placing 4th overall with 2432pts… Ran a PR 800m time of 2:45.16, placing 2nd… Finished 5th in shot put with a PR mark of 23-1.75/7.05m… (Dec. 3) … Long jump PR mark of 17-0.75/5.20m, earning 13th at TCNJ Lions Invitational (Jan. 14) … Placed sixth in 60 hurdles at Fastrack Nationals with a personal best run time of 10.35 (Feb. 10) … (OTF): Clocked 1st in high jump with PR mark of 5-9.25/1.76m at Monmouth (Mar. 24-25) … Competed in high jump at the Ivy League Outdoor TF Championships, placing 6th with a mark of 5-5.25/1.66m (May 6-7)

2019-20 (First-Year): (Indoor) Opened collegiate account with a personal record leap of 1.66m for a third place finish in the high jump at the TCNJ Indoor Open (Dec. 7) ... Posted a seventh place finish in the high jump with a mark of 1.55m at the Dartmouth-Columbia-Yale (Jan. 18) meet. (Outdoor) Season canceled.

High School: Earned nine varsity letters, four in indoor track, four in outdoor track and one in volleyball, at Wellesley High School, Wellesley, Massachusetts ... 2017 New England High Jump Champion ... Member of 2019 Indoor Massachusetts All-State Track & Field Championship team, the first in school history ... Helped Wellesley win first Outdoor Massachusetts All-State Track & Field Championship, taking the title in 2019 ... 2017 Boston Globe All-Scholastic Award ... Four-time Indoor Bay State All-Star ... Four-time Outdoor Bay State All-Star ... Outdoor track captain, junior and senior year ... Indoor track captain senior year.

Personal: Born, Julia Celeste Jordahl-Henry, on Mar. 8, 2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ... Daughter of Mark Henry and Jennifer Jordahl ... Has two siblings, Kristina (33) and Anna (18) ... Sister, Anna, is a member of the Columbia Track & Field team and enrolled at Barnard College Class of 2023 ... Father, Mark, attended Harvard (Class of 1985), where he competed in Track & Field, winning the 1985 Ivy League Indoor Heps title and he held the Harvard school for indoor triple jump for 20 years ... Ties to the Ivy League continue with grandfather who graduated from Teachers College and sister, Kristina, who graduated from Brown ... Received heavy Ivy League recruiting from Harvard, Yale and Princeton, along with non-Ivy League programs Virginia and Colby College ... Went with Columbia because "I adore everything about Columbia and it was 100 percent the place for me, which I felt the second I arrived on campus" ... Enrolled in Columbia College ... Plans on majoring in Neuroscience.

Career Bests

High Jump (Indoor) -
1.66m
TCNJ Indoor Open - Dec. 7, 2019

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

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  • 2020-21Sophomore

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  • 2021-22Junior

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  • 2022-23Senior

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