In 2012, she was runner up at the NCAA Indoor Championship in long jump and finished third at the Outdoor Championships. She won the 2011–12 Joe Kearney Award, an award given to the Western Athletic Conference's top student-athlete. At the 2012 US Olympic Trials, she jumped a new personal best en route to a second-place finish. In so doing, she became the first ever track and field athlete from Louisiana Tech to represent the United States at the Olympics.