Carlos Kouassi

Bio

AWARDS & HONORS
2026 SAC Indoor Athlete to Watch
2025 SAC Outdoor Champion - Triple Jump
2023 AAC Outdoor Champion- Triple Jump
2023 NCAA East First Round Qualifier- Triple Jump
2022 AAC Indoor Second Team All-Conference- Triple Jump

2025: Indoor - Made his C-N debut at the VMI Invitational, where he placed second in triple jump with 15.00m, and placed 16th in long jump with a distance of 6.55m, both being PRs on the season. He would win the triple jump at the Liberty Open with a 14.66m jump. At the SAC Indoor Championships, he finished fifth, jumping 14.13m in the finals.

Outdoor - Built upon his strong indoor season, placing in the top five of every triple jump event he competed in. Finished fifth at the Tennessee Invite and fourth at the App State Open. In the SAC Outdoor Championships, he took home gold after a season's best 14.98m jump, which was also the 17th best mark in Division II last season. He closed the year with a second-place finish at the LR Last Chance Meet with a 14.58m triple jump. 

2023-24 SEASONS (at Cincinnati)
2024 ITF: DNP 
2024 OTF: DNP 

2022-23 SEASONS (at Cincinnati)
2023 ITF: Competed in three meets during the season… At the AAC Championships, he competed in the triple jump… He took home first place in the triple jump at the Hoosier Open with a season-best mark of 15.08m.
2023 OTF: Competed in four meets during the season… Qualified for the NCAA East First Round in the triple jump… At the AAC Championships, he won the conference triple title with a season-best mark of 15.37m.

2021-22 SEASONS (at Cincinnati)
2022 OTF: Competed in two meets during the season… He placed fifth overall in the triple jump at the American Outdoor Championships with a mark of 15.38m… At the Houston Spring Break Invitational, he recorded a collegiate record with a leap of 6.86m in the long jump.
2022 ITF: Competed in two meets during the season… At the American Indoor Championships, he placed second overall in the triple jump with a mark of 15.46m earning All-conferece honors. 

 
2020-21 SEASONS (at Cincinnati)
2021 OTF: Did not compete during the season.
2021 ITF: Competed in four meets during the season… At the American Indoor Championships, he placed second overall with a mark of 15.46 in the triple jump… At the H-Town SpeedyCity Series II he set collegiate best in the triple jump with a mark of 15.54m… He won the triple jump at the South Carolina Invitational with a leap of 15.51m.

Personal:
From Basel, Switzerland competing for LAS Old Boys Basel Club… Seven-time Swiss national champion in the triple jump, including four outdoor and three indoor crowns... four of those titles came at the Swiss Senior Championships with the remaining three earned at the junior championships... most recently won the indoor national title (Feb. 16, 2020) at St. Gallen with an indoor and overall personal-best leap of 15.76m... that mark also stands as the Swiss national junior record... jumped his outdoor PR of 15.75m at the 2019 senior championships in Basel... indoors, started his winning ways with the 2018 senior title with a mark of 15.50m, which also ranked him #14 on the world junior lists that year... added the indoor title in 2019 (15.46m) as well... outdoors, won the 2017 junior triple jump title (15.24m) and added a silver medal in the long jump (7.04m)... added another title at the 2018 junior outdoor (14.96m) as well... has represented Switzerland in five European events since 2015... placed eighth at the 2015 Euro Youth Championships in the long jump (6.72m)... finished fourth in the triple jump and 15th in the long jump at the 2016 Euro Youth meet... twice jumped in the Euro Junior Championships, placing 15th in 2017 and 24th in 2019... competed in the 2019 Euro Team Championships as well, placing 12th in the triple jump.