Long Jump progression by age

A boys' 16' 4.75" (5.00m) long jump at 14 projects to 18' 7.75" (5.69m) at 18; a girls' 13' 9.25" (4.20m) long jump at 14 projects to 15' 0" (4.57m) at 18 on the TrackReels curve derived from USATF age-division records.

Enter your current age and your best long jump mark. The tool holds your relative standing constant and prints the mark that level is worth at every age to 30, from a curve TrackReels derives from USATF championship records by age division (ages 10 and up: the youngest division with a published record).

Enter your age and your best mark (fully automatic timing for a race), and the table shows the same level on the curve at every age up to 30.

What a long jump mark at 14 projects to

Four starting points, boys then girls, carried forward on the same curve. A freshman season is the age most families first ask the question, which is why 14 is the starting column.

Boys

At 14At 15At 16At 17At 18At 20The age-18 mark against college standards
19' 8" (6.00m)20' 8" (6.30m)21' 7.75" (6.60m)22' 0.25" (6.71m)22' 4.5" (6.83m)24' 4.5" (7.43m)Inside the published NCAA Division I recruiting range.
18' 0.5" (5.50m)18' 11.25" (5.78m)19' 10" (6.05m)20' 2.25" (6.15m)20' 6.25" (6.26m)22' 4" (6.81m)Inside the published NAIA recruiting range.
16' 4.75" (5.00m)17' 2.5" (5.25m)18' 0.5" (5.50m)18' 4.25" (5.59m)18' 7.75" (5.69m)20' 3.75" (6.19m)Below the published college ranges. Plenty of athletes close that gap in a season.
14' 9" (4.50m)15' 6" (4.73m)16' 2.75" (4.95m)16' 6" (5.04m)16' 9.5" (5.12m)18' 3.25" (5.57m)Below the published college ranges. Plenty of athletes close that gap in a season.

Girls

At 14At 15At 16At 17At 18At 20The age-18 mark against college standards
16' 4.75" (5.00m)16' 10" (5.13m)17' 3.25" (5.27m)17' 6.75" (5.36m)17' 10.25" (5.44m)19' 1.5" (5.83m)Inside the published NCAA Division II recruiting range.
15' 1" (4.60m)15' 5.75" (4.72m)15' 10.5" (4.84m)16' 1.75" (4.93m)16' 5" (5.01m)17' 7" (5.36m)Inside the published NCAA Division II recruiting range.
13' 9.25" (4.20m)14' 1.5" (4.31m)14' 6" (4.42m)14' 9" (4.50m)15' 0" (4.57m)16' 0.75" (4.90m)Below the published college ranges. Plenty of athletes close that gap in a season.
12' 5.5" (3.80m)12' 9.5" (3.90m)13' 1.5" (4.00m)13' 4" (4.07m)13' 6.75" (4.14m)14' 6.25" (4.43m)Below the published college ranges. Plenty of athletes close that gap in a season.

The last column places the age-18 projection against the published college recruiting standards for the Long Jump. See the full ladder for boys and girls.

How the projection works

No governing body publishes youth age factors for jumps, throws or hurdles, so this curve is TrackReels' own, built only from published records. USA Track & Field publishes the championship meet record for every age division of its Junior Olympics, for its U20 championships and for its open championships: one governing body, one athlete pool, every age from 9 to open class. Each division record, as a fraction of the open record, is the factor for the top age of that division; between divisions the factor is a straight line, and from 25 it is held at 1.0, the same open-age plateau the WMA tables use. Your relative standing against that curve is the one number held fixed: the tool asks what mark the same standing is worth at each later age, with the implement or hurdle height that age competes with.

In one line: mark at age B equals mark at age A, times factor(B), divided by factor(A). The records are printed below, so every factor can be checked by hand.

What it cannot know

It knows nothing about you. A growth spurt, a new coach, a technical change, an injury, or a season of doing the work will all move you off the curve, up or down, and the athletes coaches remember are exactly the ones who moved off it. Read the projection as the target you are already on pace for, not as a result you have earned. Enter a legal mark as it was measured, in meters or feet and inches.

The records the curve is built from

Every anchor, exactly as USATF publishes it, with the implement or hurdle height the division competes with and the factor it produces. Between anchors the factor is a straight line.

Boys

DivisionAnchored at ageChampionship recordImplement or hurdle heightFactor
9-10 (Junior Olympics)1016' 3.5" (4.97m)same as open0.5654
11-12 (Junior Olympics)1218' 0.75" (5.51m)same as open0.6268
13-14 (Junior Olympics)1421' 10.75" (6.68m)same as open0.7600
15-16 (Junior Olympics)1624' 1.25" (7.35m)same as open0.8362
17-18 (Junior Olympics)1824' 11" (7.60m)same as open0.8646
U20 (USATF U20 Championships)1926' 9.5" (8.17m)same as open0.9295
Open (USATF Outdoor Championships)2528' 10" (8.79m)same as open1.0000

Girls

DivisionAnchored at ageChampionship recordImplement or hurdle heightFactor
9-10 (Junior Olympics)1015' 3.75" (4.67m)same as open0.6389
11-12 (Junior Olympics)1218' 1.25" (5.52m)same as open0.7551
13-14 (Junior Olympics)1419' 1.75" (5.84m)same as open0.7989
15-16 (Junior Olympics)1620' 2" (6.15m)same as open0.8413
17-18 (Junior Olympics)1820' 10.25" (6.36m)same as open0.8700
U20 (USATF U20 Championships)1922' 0" (6.71m)same as open0.9179
Open (USATF Outdoor Championships)2523' 11.75" (7.31m)same as open1.0000

The factor at every age

The factor for each age, and the age standard it implies (the open standard multiplied by the factor).

AgeBoys factorBoys age standardGirls factorGirls age standard
100.565416' 3.5" (4.97m)0.638915' 3.75" (4.67m)
110.596117' 2.25" (5.24m)0.697016' 8.5" (5.10m)
120.626818' 0.75" (5.51m)0.755118' 1.25" (5.52m)
130.693419' 11.75" (6.09m)0.777018' 7.5" (5.68m)
140.760021' 11" (6.68m)0.798919' 1.75" (5.84m)
150.798123' 0" (7.02m)0.820119' 8" (5.99m)
160.836224' 1.25" (7.35m)0.841320' 2" (6.15m)
170.850424' 6.25" (7.48m)0.855720' 6.25" (6.26m)
180.864624' 11" (7.60m)0.870020' 10.25" (6.36m)
190.929526' 9.5" (8.17m)0.917922' 0" (6.71m)
200.941227' 1.5" (8.27m)0.931622' 4" (6.81m)
210.953027' 5.75" (8.38m)0.945322' 8" (6.91m)
220.964727' 9.75" (8.48m)0.959022' 11.75" (7.01m)
230.976528' 1.75" (8.58m)0.972623' 3.75" (7.11m)
240.988228' 5.75" (8.69m)0.986323' 7.75" (7.21m)
251.000028' 10" (8.79m)1.000023' 11.75" (7.31m)

Curve: TrackReels curve derived from USATF championship meet records by age division. Records transcribed as published from USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships records, USATF U20 Outdoor Championships records, USATF Outdoor Championships records, retrieved 2026-09-09. This is TrackReels' own derivation, not a World Masters Athletics table and not an official standard of any body. Nothing on this page is estimated beyond the derivation described above.

What is still not here

The 300m hurdles, a high school race with no U20 or open championship record to anchor a curve on; the hammer and weight throws, which have no Junior Olympic division records; and the combined events. The site would rather leave those out than invent a curve for them. The published college standards cover every event the site ranks, and the hurdle specifications by level explain what changes with age for the hurdle races.

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