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2025-26 Women's Track & Field Roster

Elizabeth Ndudi

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Nantes, France
  • High School Lycée Nelson Mandela
  • Major Business
  • Twitter lizndudi
  • Instagram liz.ndi

Biography

USA Button All-American (Indoor Long Jump '24)
NCAA Badge 1x NCAA Championships Qualifier
Big Ten Logo white Second-Team All-Big Ten // Long Jump (Indoor) - 2024
Gold medal 2023 U20 European Champion - Long Jump

2025

Indoor

  • Jumped the program's fifth-best long jump in her fifth-place finish at the Fighting Illini Open, 6.42m (21-0 3/4)

Outdoor

  • Leaped a season-best long jump, 6.33m (20-9 1/4), at the NCAA West Preliminaries
  • Academic All-Big Ten

2024

Indoor

  • First-Team All-American (Long Jump)
  • Second-Team All-Big Ten (Long Jump)
  • NCAA Championships qualifier (Long Jump)
  • Placed seventh in the long jump, 6.35m (20-10), at the NCAA Indoor Championships to earn All-America honors.
  • Placed second in the long jump, 6.31m (20-8 1/2), at the Big Ten Indoor Championships
  • Leapt the UI Armory facility record and program's third-best long jump, 6.41m (21-0 1/2), in her win at the Illini Challenge
  • Ran a personal-best 60m (7.46) at the Illini Open

Outdoor

  • Leapt the program's third-best long jump at the Gary Wieneke Memorial, 6.68m (21-11)
  • Placed fourth in the long jump at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, 6.21m (20-4 1/2)
  • Placed 14th at the NCAA West Preliminaires in the long jump, 6.52m (21-4 3/4)

High School

  • Gold medalist at the 2023 U20 European Championships in the long jump with a PB, 6.56m (21-6 1/4)
    • Became the first Irish jumps athlete to medal at the U20 European Championships
  • Indoor and outdoor Irish long jump National Champion
  • PBs: long jump - 6.56m (21-6 1/4), 100m - 11.83, 200m - 24.43

Personal

Daughter of Michael Ndudi and Avril Goossen... Has one brother and one sister... Chose Illinois because of the "Great facilities, a top business school and an ambitious head coach"... Her biggest influence in her athletic career is her younger self and goals she set for herself as a kid... Born in Dublin and proudly represents Ireland

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Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    Sprints/Jumps
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Jumps
  • 2025-26Junior

    Jumps