She is from Kennedale, Texas, and attended Kennedale High School.[2] Her mother was born and raised in Haiti. In 2018, she finished third at the New Balance Nationals Indoor championships with a time of 7.38 seconds for the 60 metres. She represented Haiti at the 2018 CARIFTA Games.[3] She had to overcome surgery to remove an extra bone in her foot which hampered her collegiate athletics career. In 2024, she graduated with a Health, Kinesiology and Leisure Studies degree and was accepted to the MBA program at Baylor University, having transferred from the University of Florida in 2022.[4][5][6]
Representing Baylor University, she won the 2025 NCAA Championship long jump indoor title on 14 March 2025 in Virginia Beach, with a personal best jump of 6.90 metres.[8][9] She became the first Baylor athlete to win a national championship in the long jump.[10] In May 2025, she jumped a personal best and wind-legal mark of 7.03m to win the long jump title at the Big 12 Conference in Lawrence, Kansas.[11] It was the third-farthest long jump made in the NCAA, behind only jumps by Tara Davis-Woodhall and Ackelia Smith.[12] She placed third in the long jump at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships on 12 June.[13][14]
In April 2026 at the Tom Jones Invitational in Gainesville, Florida she jumped a personal best 7.07 metres on her professional debut, moving to seventh on the American all-time list.[17]
References
↑"Lex Brown". World Athletics. Retrieved March 15, 2025.
