T&T's Tyra Git­tens put on an amaz­ing record-break­ing per­for­mance to claim the NCAA pen­tathlon na­tion­al cham­pi­onship with a score of 4,764 points at the Ran­dal Tyson Track Cen­ter in Fayet­teville, Arkansas in the Unit­ed States on Thurs­day evening.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas A&M ju­nior al­so set a new na­tion­al record, the pre­vi­ous mark be­ing 4,276, which was held by her and is the most in the pen­tathlon by a women's ath­lete from a Caribbean na­tion.

While set­ting a col­le­giate record, the mul­ti-ath­lete al­so set a fa­cil­i­ty record and be­came the first fe­male Ag­gie to win an in­di­vid­ual in­door ti­tle since 2014 when Brea Gar­rett won the weight throw.

"To­day (Thurs­day) means so much to me. When I was a fresh­man and looked at the col­le­giate record I just thought ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t think I can do that but I can come some­where in that area’.

"As I ma­tured, I def­i­nite­ly re­alised that it can be more achiev­able than I thought and I was so hap­py that I was able to do it to­day, "The na­tion­al cham­pi­on Git­tens was quot­ed say­ing on the Texas A&M web­site.

En route to set­ting an over­all per­son­al best in the pen­tathlon, she set per­son­al records in three of the five events, while win­ning three events.

Git­tens’ day start­ed with clock­ing 8.27 in the 60m hur­dles, .01 sec­onds faster than her pre­vi­ous per­son­al best. She fol­lowed by win­ning the high jump at 1.93m, which bet­tered her pre­vi­ous school record of 1.91m. The high-fly­er owns the top five all-time per­for­mances in Ag­gie his­to­ry, she has cleared 1.93m, 1.91m, 1.89m, 1.88m and 1.87m in her ca­reer. Her clear­ance al­so equalled the T&T na­tion­al record held by Natasha Al­leyne-Gib­son.

She con­tin­ued to show her dom­i­nance win­ning the shot put at 13.86m, less than two inch­es short of her per­son­al record. The ju­nior fol­lowed by win­ning the long jump on her fi­nal at­tempt at 6.58m, which was just short of her per­son­al record of 6.62m.

Git­tens capped the record per­for­mance by clock­ing a per­son­al-best 800m time of 2:28.22, which pro­duced an over­all pen­tathlon score of 4,764.

“I think the 800 was def­i­nite­ly the thing that I’m most proud of be­cause of how much of a men­tal block and just men­tal funk it is for me. Even though it wasn’t an amaz­ing time, I broke out of that men­tal block­age and it was def­i­nite­ly need­ed to­day. I came in­to the meet say­ing, ‘How­ev­er, any­thing else goes, I don’t care be­cause the 800 is one thing that I know I need to work on. And I was so hap­py. I could cry that it turned out the way it did and I stuck to it. I stuck to the plan,” said Git­tens on her fan­tas­tic show­ing in the two-lap event.

Texas A&M's head coach Pat Hen­ry raved about Git­tens’ achieve­ment say­ing: "It was the finest ef­fort any col­le­giate ath­lete has ever had. To do the things she did and start off with a per­son­al best in the 60m hur­dles and clear 6-4 in the high jump is ab­solute­ly a tremen­dous start. She came to this meet with a lot of in­ten­tion, an in­ten­tion to win this cham­pi­onship.

“Tyra [Git­tens] didn't win the SEC ti­tle two weeks ago and it shows the whole team that it's about how you think. If you're a pos­i­tive per­son and go in there with the ex­pe­ri­ences you've had, be ready to do it on this day. This is the day that you have to put every­thing you know to­geth­er to try to win an event. I think to­day teach­es that it showed that you can do it be­cause Tyra just did it!"