Verneda Thomas
American high jumper and volleyball player
Verneda Estella Thomas (June 21, 1936 - March 30, 2016) is a former volleyball player. She played for the United States national team at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[1] Before she was an Olympic volleyball player, she was also an elite high jumper, winning a bronze medal at the 1955 Pan American Games in that event.[2]
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US National Championship winners in women's high jump
Amateur Athletic Union
- 1923: Catherine Wright
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Elizabeth Stine
- 1926–27: Catherine McGuire
- 1928: Mildred Wiley
- 1929–31: Jean Shiley
- 1932: Jean Shiley & Babe Didrikson
- 1933: Alice Arden
- 1934: Not held
- 1935: Barbara Howe
- 1936: Annette Rogers
- 1937–38: Gretel Bergmann
- 1939–48: Alice Coachman
- 1949: Gertrude Orr
- 1950: Dorothy Chisholm
- 1951–52: Marion Boos
- 1953: Mildred McDaniel
- 1954: Jeanette Cantrell
- 1955–56: Mildred McDaniel
- 1957: Verneda Thomas & Hazel Ulmer
- 1958: Rose Robinson & Barbara Brown
- 1959–61: Lis Josefson
- 1962: Kinuko Tsutsumi (JPN)
- 1963–67: Eleanor Montgomery
- 1968: Theresa Thresher
- 1969: Eleanor Montgomery
- 1970: Sally Plihal
- 1971: Linda Iddings
- 1972: Audrey Reid
- 1973: DeAnne Wilson
- 1974–77: Joni Huntley
- 1978: Louise Ritter
- 1979: Debbie Brill (CAN)
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Coleen Sommer
- 1981: Pam Spencer
- 1982: Debbie Brill (CAN)
- 1983: Louise Ritter
- 1984: Pam Spencer
- 1985–86: Louise Ritter
- 1987: Coleen Sommer
- 1988–89: Jan Wohlschlag
- 1990–91: Yolanda Henry
- 1992: Tanya Hughes
USA Track & Field
- 1993: Tanya Hughes
- 1994: Angie Bradburn
- 1995: Amy Acuff
- 1996: Tisha Waller
- 1997: Amy Acuff
- 1998–99: Tisha Waller
- 2000: Karol Damon
- 2001: Amy Acuff
- 2002: Tisha Waller
- 2003: Amy Acuff
- 2004: Tisha Waller
- 2005: Amy Acuff
- 2006: Chaunté Howard
- 2007: Amy Acuff
- 2008–09: Chaunté Howard
- 2010: Chaunté Lowe
- 2011: Brigetta Barrett
- 2012: Chaunté Lowe
- 2013: Brigetta Barrett
- 2014–16: Chaunté Lowe
- 2017–19: Vashti Cunningham
- 20212020 OT-22: Vashti Cunningham
- OT: Since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials in Olympic years, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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