2023 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor long jump champion Carey McLeod has signed a professional contract with German apparel giants Adidas.
The 25-year-old specializes in the long jump but has also competed in the triple jump.
McLeod has personal bests of 8.34m in the long jump and 16.40m in the triple jump. Both those performances came in 2021.
Indoors, McLeod jumped a national record-equaling 8.40m on March 10 this year to win the NCAA Indoor title. That jump put McLeod in a tie with James Beckford for 20th all-time indoors.
Last week, McLeod narrowly missed out on a medal in the long jump at the World Championships in Budapest.
The Arkansas man had a best jump of 8.27m, the same distance as countryman Tajay Gayle, but was beaten to the bronze medal on countback.
His professional debut came at Thursday’s Zurich Diamond League meet where he jumped 7.60m for ninth.