EUGENE, Ore. -- Rose-Hulman Track & Field Athletic Hall of Famer Liz  Evans from the class of 2013 is set to compete in the USATF Outdoor National Championship on Friday, August 1, at 7:05 PM ET at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.

Evans will compete in the women's high jump on Friday evening. She is currently seeded 13th in a competitive heat of 15 athletes. Evans enters the event with the ninth-best mark recorded this season of 1.85 meters.

Evans recorded a top-five finish in the high jump at the 2021 US Olympic Trials, clearing a career-best 6' 2 3/4" to place 5th in the nation's premier event. Although the mark did not result in Evans qualifying for the United States Olympic Team, the 5th place finish surpassed her qualifying mark of 6' 0 3/4" by exactly 2 inches in a career-best effort.  Evans also improved to 5th place at the Olympic Trials after finishing 18th in the Trials in 2016.  She has a career-best USATF national finish of third at the 2015 Indoor Championships.

Her Rose-Hulman career featured five NCAA Division III women's high jump national championships and eight All-American awards. She holds the all-time Division III record in the women's high jump (6' 0 1/2"). In addition to five NCAA Division III national championships and eight All-American awards, Evans was also a three-time CSC Academic All-American with two first-team honors. Her eight All-American awards included five first-place efforts (2013 Outdoors; 2012 Indoors and Outdoors; 2011 Indoors and Outdoors), two national runner-up performances (2010 Indoors and Outdoors), and one third-place effort (2013 Indoors).

The academic standout earned undergraduate bachelor's degrees in both mathematics and electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman in 2013. She later completed an engineering management master's degree for her third Rose-Hulman diploma in 2015. Evans has recently been inducted into the Rose-Hulman Athletic Hall of Fame for her accomplishments in 2024.