Seremes crowned national champion

Seremes became the first men’s triple jump champion in program history at the NCAA Indoor National Championships, Saturday.

A million stats tell the story, but sometimes a single photo is more powerful than any lede:

In only three months at Mizzou, Jonathan Seremes leapt to the top of the sand pit castle. He set, and broke, his own school record. He’s the first Missouri men’s triple jump SEC and national champion. He’s the only DI athlete to jump farther than 17 meters this season.

Records and results and awards. Coach Iliyan Chamov emphasizes those metrics pale in comparison to the process, the training, the becoming a better person.

But every once in a while, something surpasses the process.

A golden moment.

Meets are long, 16 competitors jumping six times takes forever.

But it only takes one moment to make a memory.

To crown a champion.

On his sixth and final attempt, Jonathan Seremes jumped roughly the length of 1 ¼ school busses to earn the NCAA Indoor title. He’s only the fourth men’s national indoor champion in any event in Missouri history.

17.04 meters.

I admire the Missouri jumps team’s commitment to prioritizing excellent training over results. But Seremes proved excellent training, and an extraordinary amount of talent, can produce a pretty cool result.

And his teammates had a lot to celebrate, too.

For the first time since 2010, Missouri crowned two First Team All-Americans in the men’s triple jump. Sophomore Sterling Scott found his 16m-footing once more, finishing eighth in 16.04m.

On the women’s side, Euphenie Andre became a two-time First Team All-American, jumping 13.55m to take sixth in the women’s triple jump. Andre set a personal best in the event and ends her indoor collegiate career ranked second all-time in program history.

But wait, there’s more!

Kristi Perez-Snyman and Claudina Diaz earned first and second team All-American status, respectively, in the women’s high jump. Perez-Snyman matched her seeding to take sixth in 1.85m, while Diaz finished 15th in 1.75m.

Last but not least, reigning school record holder Sam Innes became the first Tiger to earn All-American Second Team status in the men’s weight throw, Friday. He finished 14th with a 20.97m mark.

Now back to those golden moments.

With so many school records falling in such quick succession this indoor season, it’s easy to forget the historical significance.

Missouri’s men’s and women’s triple jump, men’s weight throw and women’s high jump All-Americans are reaching the highest program marks, ever. It’s like if Joni Davis, Renee Kelly and Sophie Cunningham played on the same team in 2025.

If you read a lot of track and field articles, the PRs, SBs, SRs and FRs all start to blend into an acronym abyss. But, before we close the chapter on Missouri’s indoor season, it’s important to remember each of those marks came with a moment.

A moment where the purpose of those countless, crowd-less hours of training crystallized. The moments we don’t see make the moments at the meets even more meaningful.

Here’s to many more, outside.