BALTIMORE, Md. – Coppin State’s Christina Epps will be returning to the West Coast to compete in the 2014 USATF Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, California. Epps will compete in the triple jump on Thursday, June 26 at 8:35 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time at Sacramento State’s Hornet Stadium.

Epps recently competed at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Oregon earlier this month.

Epps had a fantastic season for the Eagles. She participated in the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor national championship meet in the triple jump. She enjoyed a personal best effort of 13.40 meters (43 feet, 11.75 inches) at the NCAA Division I East Regional Preliminary Championship on May 31 in Jacksonville. That effort helped her enter the outdoor championship meet with the fifth best mark in the nation.

In addition to setting school records in both the indoor and outdoor triple jumps, Epps won the MEAC and ECAC championships in both events, earned indoor All-American honors after finishing seventh at the NCAA Championships and finished sixth at the U.S. Senior National Championships. Epps was also named the Coppin State Female Student-Athlete of the Year and the Female President’s Eagle Award winner.

The USATF Outdoor Championships return to “Sac-Town” for 2014. The meet brings the nation’s best athletes to Northern California while also serving as the final stop on of the 2014 Outdoor USATF Championship Series, including stops at the Penn Relays and Drake Relays in April, the Prefontaine Classic in May, and the adidas Grand Prix in June.

One of the most accomplished sprinters in track history gave the upcoming USA Track & Field Championships a burst of star power when Allyson Felix entered the 400 meters. Felix joins a 400 field in Sacramento that includes Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross. Based on 2013 results, however, neither Felix nor Richards-Ross will be the favorite. Francena McCorory, a teammate of theirs on the 4 x 400 relay team that won Olympic gold in London, has the fastest U.S. time of the season at 50.15 and has won several big international races.

McCorory ran in a race at Coppin State back on April 11.

Site of the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Trials for Track & Field, Sacramento has hosted several prominent track & field events in recently, including the 2011 World Masters Championships, 2010 USA Masters Championships, 2010 USA Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships, and 1995 USA Outdoor Championships. Sacramento also has been home to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Sacramento has been the site of several record-setting performances including Stacy Dragila’s first world-record pole vault in 2000 and the legendary “Night of Speed” during the 1968 USA Outdoor Championships at Hughes Stadium. On a single night, three American men broke the existing world record in the 100 meters, with a hand-timed 9.9 in the semifinals – Jim Hines, Ronnie Ray Smith and Charlie Green.