LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – As Little Rock track and field student-athletes grapple with a lost season, they have no better empathizer than Lexi Jacobus. A 2016 Olympian and four-time NCAA Champion turned volunteer coach for the Trojans, Jacobus was primed to make another run to compete on the world's grandest stage this summer.
After joining the coaching staff last year, Jacobus quickly made an impact on Little Rock's Team. During the indoor season she guided a pair of freshmen in the pole vault with Tricia Pierce breaking the school record (Pierce's best mark of the indoor season came in at 12-5.