2019 USC Track & Field Roster
Roster
Harmon-Thomas, Alexa

Alexa Harmon-Thomas
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Lawrence, Kan.
Bio
THIS YEAR: Redshirt senior Alexa Harmon-Thomas is in her final season competing in the long jump and high jump for USC. She is ranked in USC’s indoor top 10 in the high jump and pentathlon. She transferred to USC from Texas before the 2017 season.
2018: Harmon-Thomas has a season-best high jump of 5-8 (1.73m) to win the event at the Trojan Invitational. She tied for ninth in the event at the Pac-12 Championships with a clearance of 5-4.25 (1.63m). She had a season-best long jump of 19-0.50/5.80m (+0.2) to place third at the Trojan Invitational. She had a long jump of 18-7.75/5.68m (+2.1w) to place 18th at the Pac-12 Championships. During the indoor season she placed 10th in the high jump (5-7.25) and 12th in the long jump (18-6) at the MPSF Championships.
2017: Harmon-Thomas placed 10th in the heptathlon, her first, with 4,741 points at the Pac-12 Multi-Events Championships....she was sixth in the 100m HH with a time of 14.66, 10th in the 200m with a PR of 26.28 (+0.5) and second in the long jump with a season-best leap of 18-10.00/5.74m (+1.3). Indoors, she placed 12th in the pentathlon with a season-best 3,486 points, which ranks third on USC's all-time indoor list...She finished eighth in the hurdles with a season-best time of 9.00 and third in the long jump with an indoor PR of 18-4.25/5.59m.
2016: Harmon-Thomas did not compete during the outdoor season. She tied for 14th at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the high jump with a clearance of 5-5.25 (1.66m). She scored 3431 points in the pentathlon at the Husker Invitational, finishing 12th.
2015: Harmon-Thomas set a then-PR in the long jump of 17-9.75 (5.43m) at the Power Five Invitational. Redshirted during the outdoor season.
HIGH SCHOOL: Harmon-Thomas graduated from Lawrence Free State HS in 2014. Ranked No. 1 in the state of Kansas in the long jump, high jump, 100-meter hurdles and 300-meter hurdles. Won the 100m hurdles (14.11), 300m hurdles (state record 42.70) and long jump (19-5.00) at the 2013 Kansas 6A State Championships...was state champion in both hurdles again as a senior. She helped lead her team to back-to-back state titles. She was named the Kansas Gatorade Athlete of the Year as a junior. She won the high jump at the 2013 World Youth Trials and was second at the 2013 USATF Junior Championships. She placed second (5-9.75) in the high jump at the IAAF World Youth Championships.
PERSONAL: Harmon-Thomas was born on April 5, 1996...She is the daughter of NFL Hall of Famer Derrick Thomas and Kelly Harmon...Her father played football at Alabama and for the Kansas City Chiefs...He was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009...Alexa was a National Merit Semi-Finalist, National Achievement Finalist and Kansas Honors Scholar...She was a Pre-Med Club Leader and Leader in Fellowship of Christian Athletes in high school...She is an American Studies and Ethnicity major at USC.
CAREER BESTS: 100m HH - 14.28 200m - 26.28 HJ - 5-9.75 (1.77m)
LJ -19-3.00 (5.87m) Javelin - 103-6 (31.54m) 800m - 2:21.99
2018: Harmon-Thomas has a season-best high jump of 5-8 (1.73m) to win the event at the Trojan Invitational. She tied for ninth in the event at the Pac-12 Championships with a clearance of 5-4.25 (1.63m). She had a season-best long jump of 19-0.50/5.80m (+0.2) to place third at the Trojan Invitational. She had a long jump of 18-7.75/5.68m (+2.1w) to place 18th at the Pac-12 Championships. During the indoor season she placed 10th in the high jump (5-7.25) and 12th in the long jump (18-6) at the MPSF Championships.
2017: Harmon-Thomas placed 10th in the heptathlon, her first, with 4,741 points at the Pac-12 Multi-Events Championships....she was sixth in the 100m HH with a time of 14.66, 10th in the 200m with a PR of 26.28 (+0.5) and second in the long jump with a season-best leap of 18-10.00/5.74m (+1.3). Indoors, she placed 12th in the pentathlon with a season-best 3,486 points, which ranks third on USC's all-time indoor list...She finished eighth in the hurdles with a season-best time of 9.00 and third in the long jump with an indoor PR of 18-4.25/5.59m.
2016: Harmon-Thomas did not compete during the outdoor season. She tied for 14th at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in the high jump with a clearance of 5-5.25 (1.66m). She scored 3431 points in the pentathlon at the Husker Invitational, finishing 12th.
2015: Harmon-Thomas set a then-PR in the long jump of 17-9.75 (5.43m) at the Power Five Invitational. Redshirted during the outdoor season.
HIGH SCHOOL: Harmon-Thomas graduated from Lawrence Free State HS in 2014. Ranked No. 1 in the state of Kansas in the long jump, high jump, 100-meter hurdles and 300-meter hurdles. Won the 100m hurdles (14.11), 300m hurdles (state record 42.70) and long jump (19-5.00) at the 2013 Kansas 6A State Championships...was state champion in both hurdles again as a senior. She helped lead her team to back-to-back state titles. She was named the Kansas Gatorade Athlete of the Year as a junior. She won the high jump at the 2013 World Youth Trials and was second at the 2013 USATF Junior Championships. She placed second (5-9.75) in the high jump at the IAAF World Youth Championships.
PERSONAL: Harmon-Thomas was born on April 5, 1996...She is the daughter of NFL Hall of Famer Derrick Thomas and Kelly Harmon...Her father played football at Alabama and for the Kansas City Chiefs...He was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009...Alexa was a National Merit Semi-Finalist, National Achievement Finalist and Kansas Honors Scholar...She was a Pre-Med Club Leader and Leader in Fellowship of Christian Athletes in high school...She is an American Studies and Ethnicity major at USC.
CAREER BESTS: 100m HH - 14.28 200m - 26.28 HJ - 5-9.75 (1.77m)
LJ -19-3.00 (5.87m) Javelin - 103-6 (31.54m) 800m - 2:21.99
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