2023 Season Honors
- 2023 Bowerman Winner
- One of five Razorback men on the watch list for the year
- One of two Razorback semifinalists with Carey McLeod
- USTFCCCA Indoor & Outdoor Field Scholar Athlete of the Year
Indoors
- South Central Field Athlete of the Year
- SEC Freshman Field Athlete of the Year
Outdoors
- Co-National Field Athlete of the Year
- South Central Field Athlete of the Year
- SEC Field Athlete of the Year
- SEC Freshman Field Athlete of the Year
2023 Season Progression | Triple Jump
| Collegiate Classic | 1) 54-10.75 (16.73) | Albuquerque, NM | Jamaica U20 record, No. 9 UA |
| 2023 collegiate leader | |||
| SEC Indoor | 1) 56-1.25 (17.10) | Fayetteville, Ark. | Jamaica U20 record, Jamaica No. 3, |
| No. 5 UA, No. 3 WU20, 2023 collegiate leader | |||
| NCAA Indoor | 1) 57-6.5 (17.54) | Albuquerque, NM | NCAA record, Jamaica record, WU20 record |
| CARIFTA Games | 1) 52-10.25 (16.11) | Nassau, Bahamas | Defended his title |
| LSU Invitational | 1) 56-4 (17.17) | Baton Rouge, La. | No. 7 UA, Equal No. 2 world list, outdoor CL |
| Four inches from outdoor best of 56-8 (17.27) | |||
| set to win 2022 World U20 title | |||
| SEC Outdoor | 1) 58-7.5 (17.87) | Baton Rouge, La. | Collegiate record, =No. 13 on world all-time list |
| World U20 record, No. 2 Jamaica all-time | |||
| NCAA West Preliminary | 1q) 55-2 (16.82) | Sacramento, Ca. | Led field by two feet |
| NCAA Championships | 1) 57-7.5 (17.56) | Austin, Texas | First UA freshman winner, 4th freshman ever to win |
| Second freshman to sweep NCAA Indoor & Outdoor | |||
| Facility record, missed meet record by centimeter | |||
| Jamaica Championships | 1) 58-0.25 (17.68) | Kingston, Jamaica | Bettered field by three-plus feet |
| Monte Carlo DL | 2) 57-11.25 (17.66) | Monte Carlo, Monaco | Led field from round four until final jump |
| 58-1 (17.70) by Hugues Fabrice Zango (BF) | |||
| World Championship | 1q) 58-1 (17.70) | Budapest, Hungary | Leading qualifying mark in WC qualifying history |
| World Championships | did not jump in final | Budapest, Hungary | injury prevented an attempt |
| Qualifying mark still bettered winning mark in final | |||
| 57-10.5 (17.64) by Hugues Fabrice Zango (BF) |
Freshman (2023)
Outdoor: Entering the Arkansas program as a talented jumper from Kingston College in Kingston, Jamaica, 18-year-old Jaydon Hibbert displayed world class prowess throughout his undefeated freshman season on the way to establishing the world-leading triple jump mark for 2023. Numerous records were set by the young Razorback as he swept SEC and NCAA titles in the triple jump.
Becoming the youngest jumper to ever travel as far as Hibbert accomplished this season in bettering indoor and outdoor world U20 records, the effort of 58-7.5 (17.87) in Baton Rouge to win the SEC Outdoor title moved Hibbert to equal No. 13 on the all-time world list, matching the career best of Arkansas legend Mike Conley … It became the world leading mark for 2023 and remained so for the rest of the year.
Hibbert bettered the outdoor collegiate record of 57-7.75 (17.57) set by SMU’s Keith Connor in 1982 along with the Arkansas school record of 57-6.5 (17.54) by Mike Conley, which was set in 1985, as well as the all-conditions UA best of 58-1.25 (17.71) set by Conley in the same meet when Conley won the NCAA title … The previous SEC Outdoor meet record of 56-4.5 (17.18) by Latario Collie of Texas A&M (2015) and SEC all-conditions best of 56-11.25 (17.35) by Florida’s Marquis Dendy (2015) were topped by Hibbert along with the Bernie Moore Stadium record of 56-10.75 (17.34) by LSU’s Walter Davis from 2002 … Hibbert moved to No. 2 on the Jamaican all-time list, trailing only the national record of 58-9.5 (17.92) by James Beckford from the 1995 NJCAA Championships in Odessa, Texas.
In winning the NCAA Outdoor title, Hibbert became the first Arkansas freshman to accomplish the feat and is the fourth freshman to ever win. In completing a sweep of NCAA titles, Hibbert became the second freshman to achieve the rare feat, following Oregon’s Emmanuel Ihemje in 2021 … With the first Arkansas NCAA Outdoor title since Melvin Lister in 2000, Hibbert became the seventh Razorback to win the NCAA Outdoor triple jump and claimed the 13th title while earning the 28th All-America honor.
After winning the Jamaica Championships triple jump title with a leap of 58-0.25 (17.68), Hibbert made his debut at the World Athletics Championships a year after setting the World U20 Championship record with a 56-8 (17.27) victory … In the qualifying round in Budapest, Hungary, Hibbert led the field with a second round leap of 58-1 (17.70) to produce the farthest distance in World Championships qualifying history. The previous best measured 57-7.5 (17.56) by Sweden’s Christian Olsson in 2003 … The qualifying mark by Hibbert topped the winning mark of 57-10.5 (17.64) by Hugues Fabrice Zango in the final. An injury during the warm-up for the final prevented Hibbert from making an attempt.
Indoor: With his Razorback debut occurring in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hibbert gained experience on the runway that would host the NCAA Indoor Championships in mid-March. Making a pair of attempts using an eight-step approach produced identical marks of 54-10.75 (16.73), which moved Hibbert to No. 9 on the Arkansas all-time indoor list and established the Jamaican U20 national record … Among the current season, it served as the collegiate leader and ranked No. 4 in the world …
The first conference title for Hibbert came inside Randal Tyson Track Center as Arkansas hosted the SEC Indoor Championships. A second round attempt of 56-1.25 (17.10), from a slightly longer approach he used in his debut, after a first round mark of 54-9.25 (16.69) … Hibbert improved his collegiate leading mark for the indoor season and moved to No. 5 on the UA all-time list, joining a crew of Razorbacks who had surpassed 56 feet while at Arkansas – Mike Conley (57-1 | 17.40), Erick Walder (56-6.75 | 17.24), Clive Pullen (56-4.75 | 17.19), and Edrick Floréal (56-2.75 | 17.14) …
Returning to Albuquerque for the NCAA Indoor Championships, Hibbert needed only one attempt to capture the title and set history. A winning distance of 57-6.5 (17.54) enabled Hibbert to become the ninth Razorback to capture the indoor title and became the 18th victory for Arkansas … The outstanding distance by Hibbert broke the NCAA record of 57-1 (17.40) set by Conley in 1985 as well as the Jamaican national record of 56-4.75 (17.19) set by Pullen in 2017. Also falling was the World U20 record, indoors and outdoors, as Hibbert surpassed the indoor distance of 56-5.25 (17.20) by Melvin Raffin of France in 2017 as well as the outdoor mark of 57-5 (17.50) set in 1985 by Germany’s Volker Mai.
High School
Broke the World U20 Championship triple jump record on a first attempt leap of 56 feet, 8 inches (17.27) in the final and captured the gold medal with a two-foot improvement to his previous career best … The silver medalist at 2021 World U20 Championships as a 16-year-old, Hibbert upgraded to gold with an amazing distance as the second jumper in the field after an hour rain delay … Surpassed the previous Championship record of 56-3.25 (17.15) set in 2018 by 17-year-old Jordan Diaz Fortun of Cuba in 2018 … Hibbert entered the competition as the U20 world leader for 2022 with his previous career best of 54-8 (16.66) … Improved his Jamaican U18 record and moved to No. 2 on the all-time world list, trailing a 57-1.5 (17.41) U18 world best by Fortun from 2018 … On the U20 all-time world list, Hibbert ranks as equal No. 8 with Cuba’s Cristian Napoles from 2017 … Hibbert just missed the Jamaican U20 national record of 56-8.75 (17.29) set by James Beckford in 1994 … Beckford also holds the senior Jamaican national record with a mark of 58-9.5 (17.92) from 1995 … Hibbert ranks as the No. 2 performer on the all-time Jamaica list with the No. 4 performance …
Claimed the triple jump title at the Jamaica Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships with a winning mark of 54-8 (16.66), a championship record as well as the then Jamaica U18 national record, which ranked him the No. 5 performer on the world U18 all-time list … In winning the long jump at Champs, produced a career best mark of 25-10 (7.87) … During the CARIFTA Games this spring, Hibbert set the triple jump meet record with a 54-0 (16.46) effort that followed a wind-aided leap of 55-11.25 (17.05) with a +2.8 wind while a mark of 25-0 (7.62) claimed the long jump victory … Won the high school division triple jump at Penn Relays with a windy leap of 52-3.75 (15.94) … In the 2022 Jamaican Championships, won the triple jump with a mark of 53-10.25 (16.41) to defeat Jordan Scott (53-5.75 | 16.30), won the 2019 NCAA Indoor title competing for Virginia … Produced his winning effort in the first round into a -1.2 headwind … As a 16-year-old, earned a silver medal in the triple jump at the 2021 World U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, with a mark of 52-8 (16.05) … Won the triple jump and placed second in the long jump at 2021 NACAC U18 … During 2021 Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships placed second in triple jump with then PR of 49-8.5 (15.15) and ran anchor leg of Kingston College sprint medley relay, which placed second …
2022 graduate of Kingston College High School in Kingston, Jamaica … One of five alums of Kingston College currently on the Razorback roster … Arkansas alums who competed at Kingston College include Olympians and World Championship competitors in Alain Bailey, Tarik Batchelor, Omar McLeod, and Clive Pullen … The talent-laden group boasts an Olympic gold medalist, World Championship gold medalist, a combined seven NCAA titles, 11 SEC titles, and 19 first-team All-America performances.
Personal
Born January 17, 2005.
